[ovirt-users] Suggestion for configuration with only 2 nics and equallogic ISCSI

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 9:46 PM Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Pavel Gashev <Pax at acronis.com> wrote:
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> Gianluca,
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> Are you sure your 10Gbit nics doesn’t support iSCSI offload?
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> I Pavel, thanks for the comment.
> It could be a nice way to proceed ;-) Are you using it with oVirt?
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> Some considerations/questions:
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> - in the past I tested iSCSI offload with RH EL 5.5 (it was late 2010)
> with some problems; then I also tested with RH EL 6 when still in beta with
> better results. Not tested more anddidn't go to production as it was not
> considered crucial. Can we consider it stable in RH EL / CentOS 7.3?
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> - I remeber that at 5.5 / 6beta times even when configuring offload iSCSI
> you still needed to configure an ip on the interfaces in OS, because I seem
> to rememebr the discovery phase (or login perhaps?) happened on tcp and not
> capable in offload. Is this still true or can I only configure an ip for
> the offload macs?
>

oVirt sees it as FC. No need for IP.
Y.


> - is the offload configuration transparent to oVirt in the sense that
> oVirt only needs that the hosts see the multipath iSCSI devices, or do I
> need to make any particular config in oVirt too, then?
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> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gianluca
>
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