[ovirt-users] Best practice for iSCSI storage domains

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Maor Lipchuk <mlipchuk at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Richard Chan <richard at treeboxsolutions.com
> > wrote:
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>> What is the best practice for iSCSI storage domains:
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>> Many small targets vs a few large targets?
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>> Specific example: if you wanted a 8TB storage domain would you prepare a
>> single 8TB LUN or (for example) 8 x 1 TB LUNs.
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> There could be many reasons to use each type.
> From the top of my head I think that configuration wise it will be better
> to configure more than one lun.
> That can be helpful if you plan to use external LUN disks for example.
>
> Multiple targets might also come useful if you plan to configure iSCSI
> multipath in the future, that way you can choose only part of the targets
> to apply the MPIO on.
>

That only makes configuration more complex.
I think for 8TB, a single LUN should suffice.
Y.


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