[ovirt-users] Install oVirt with directly-attached SCSI devices

[Nir Soffer]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Paolo Smiraglia
<paolo.smiraglia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> My name is Paolo and I'm the sysadmin of the research group (infosec)
> where I work.
>
> Recently our infrastructure was updated and I'm planning to use oVirt
> as virtualisation manager. The new "toys" they gave me are
>
>   - HP DL360G9 (x2)
>   - HP MSA1040 (double controller with mini SAS connection)
>
> By exploring the oVIrt documentation, seems that the best solution for
> storage management would be having something like NSF, iSCSI and so
> on. Unfortunately, LUNs exposed by our MSA1040 are recognised by the
> two DL36G9 as directly-attached SCSI devices.

Do you see the luns exposed by this storage on both hosts?

The output of "lsblk" and "multipath -ll" may be helpful.

If you do, you can treat them as FC storage, and create a FC storage domain
with these luns.

Nir

>
> I asked Google and I found this old post from the far 2013
>
>    http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-November/017924.html
>
> that seems to be very similar to my case and the scenario is not rosy... :-(
>
> Is now, in 2016, something changed? Have you something to suggest?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>    Paolo
>
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