[pve-devel] nexent questions

[Stefan Priebe]

on the libiscsi todo is a reconnect part:
* Autoconnect for session faiulures.
   When the tcp session fail,   try several times to reconnect and relogin.
   If successful re-issue any commands that were in flight.

When this is introduces it should be pretty simple to add a patch which 
round robins through a bunch of target IPs.

Stefan
Am 17.09.2012 18:53, schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER:
>
> We currently pass the following url to kvm:
>
> iscsi:$portal/$target/lun
>
>>> but the nexenta server does not always expose iscsi on ‘$portal’. Instead,
>>> there are target groups. Any idea how to fix that?
> maybe can we replace  the portal option by "management" ip.
> and add target ip option ?
>
>>> Also, libiscsi does not support multipath, so maybe we are better off not using it?
>>> Can we use standard open-iscsi + nexenta api?
> Indeed, with libiscsi, you need to do multipath inside the guest. (I'm not sure you can do true iscsi passthrough with multipath on host)
>
>
> for open-iscsi,It's possible, I have done some work some month ago,
> But having a lot of devices on host is difficult (but no impossible) to maintain.
> We really need to add/remove the device from the host when the vm is starting.
> some problem if not : when we delete/unmap a volume, we need to rescan the iscsi + multipath layer to remove the device.
>
> The main problem was that open-iscsi scan all devices at iscsi login.
> (I have done some tricks with udev settle, deleting all devices after the iscsi login)
>
> Also when snapshot rollback, we need to unmap the iscsi lun, and the device wwid is changing.
> Maybe some other problem, but I don't remember.
>
>
> Maybe can we implement both, libiscsi + open-iscsi ?
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>
> De: "Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar at proxmox.com>
> À: pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com
> Envoyé: Lundi 17 Septembre 2012 17:28:43
> Objet: [pve-devel] nexent questions
>
>
>
> We currently pass the following url to kvm:
>
> iscsi:$portal/$target/lun
>
> but the nexenta server does not always expose iscsi on ‘$portal’. Instead,
> there are target groups. Any idea how to fix that?
>
> Also, libiscsi does not support multipath, so maybe we are better off not using it?
> Can we use standard open-iscsi + nexenta api?
>
> - Dietmar
>
>
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