On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote
Simple, it's only a NAS device, and not really a file server / web
server / data base server as well. The purposes I needed is to replace
SMB on the network, and iSCSI seemed like a good alternative.
Rudi Ahlers schrieb
John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned
through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's,
and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that
iSCSI and won't allow me to scale the storage by simply adding
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Rudi Ahlers schrieb
John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned
through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's,
and even servers, but from what I understand it's also
Rudi Ahlers schrieb:
Hi Rainer,
I honestly don't want to spend a lot of cash on a proprietary system
like NetApp and actually want to use a lot of old tower machines (i.e.
limited space for hard drives, and no redundancy, slower CPU's, etc)
we already have. CentOS is my preferred OS of
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned
through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's,
and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that
iSCSI and won't allow me to scale the storage by simply adding
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
You can, if you connect the iscsi block devices into one machine that can
combine them in one or more md raid devices, put a filesystem on them, and
export via nfs and/or smb to the systems that want shared space.
Jonathan Moore wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
You can, if you connect the iscsi block devices into one machine that can
combine them in one or more md raid devices, put a filesystem on them, and
export via nfs and/or smb to the systems
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb:
I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is
concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a single
disk from the array.
But the latency over the net is much higher.
Who knows if the kernel can handle this in
On Oct 21, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Rainer,
I honestly don't want to spend a lot of cash on a proprietary system
like NetApp and actually want to use a lot of old tower machines (i.e.
limited space for hard drives, and no redundancy, slower CPU's,
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
But the latency over the net is much higher.
Who knows if the kernel can handle this in all situations?
I could see it taking longer to notice a failed disk then it normally
*should*. I wonder
what type of impact
Ross Walker wrote:
On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de
wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb:
I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is
concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a
single
disk from the
Say, I had 4 devices with 500 GB drives exported using iSCSI. If a
single larger server
took those four iSCSI export drives, and created one md RAID 5 device,
could a single
server be turned off, and just degrade the array until it was either
replaced entirely
or brought back online?
John R Pierce wrote:
Say, I had 4 devices with 500 GB drives exported using iSCSI. If a
single larger server
took those four iSCSI export drives, and created one md RAID 5 device,
could a single
server be turned off, and just degrade the array until it was either
replaced entirely
or
On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:43 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
Say, I had 4 devices with 500 GB drives exported using iSCSI. If a
single larger server
took those four iSCSI export drives, and created one md RAID 5
device,
could a single
server be turned off, and just degrade
On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ross Walker wrote:
On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de
wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb:
I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is
concerned and it
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote:
I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo
some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to
export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN's
Sorry for the thread
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote:
I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo
some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to
export some
Rudi Ahlers wrote
Simple, it's only a NAS device, and not really a file server / web
server / data base server as well. The purposes I needed is to replace
SMB on the network, and iSCSI seemed like a good alternative. The
server in question is a dev server, which I thought would be
beneficial
However, the OP is looking for a iscsi-target...which, if I am not
wrong, does not quite exist yet in Centos/RHEL.
___
you're right, I am looking to setup an iscsi target, but I couldn't
find a working tutorial, and this is very very new to me.
The
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Jim Wildmanj...@rossberry.com wrote:
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
chan, I already have CentOS 5.3 setup, and we need to use this as far
as possible, due to some of the other software that we'll be using.
See Joseph Casale's post
[r...@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/iscsi start
iscsid (pid 15037 15036) is running...
Setting up iSCSI targets: iscsiadm: No records found!
Well,
Have you exported any block devices? Also don't forget to open
the firewall.
___
CentOS mailing list
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Joseph L.
Casalejcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
[r...@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/iscsi start
iscsid (pid 15037 15036) is running...
Setting up iSCSI targets: iscsiadm: No records found!
Well,
Have you exported any block devices? Also don't forget to open
the
No. I don't know what exactly to setup, which is why I'm looking for a howto :)
Rudi,
How exactly did you expect the daemon to know what you wanted to
export without telling it, was starting the daemon w/o any config
not supposed to yield any errors:)
For RHELs target:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm
trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act
as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a
decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS.
I would
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm
trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act
as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a
decent howto on how to
Can I suggest ZFS on Solaris/OpenSolaris? Real breeze to setup.
As for Linux, it has been a while but are there still two iscsi-target
implementations? Has any one of them got into the mainline (Linux - not
Redhat - although if Redhat will support one implementation I guess it
does not really
From: Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com
Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm
trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act
as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a
decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using
Rainer Duffner wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm
trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act
as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't
chan, I already have CentOS 5.3 setup, and we need to use this as far
as possible, due to some of the other software that we'll be using.
See Joseph Casale's post then. It is not quite available on Centos. Roll
your own is the name of the game.
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Can I suggest ZFS on Solaris/OpenSolaris? Real breeze to setup.
As for Linux, it has been a while but are there still two iscsi-target
implementations? Has any one of them got into the mainline (Linux - not
Redhat - although if Redhat will support one implementation I
Did you install your iet from rpms or something then?
No, but it looks like Ross Walker has created an updated spec
in the source. It's the *only* thing I don't use am rpm for as
there isn't anyone with an updated repo, I think atrpms is behind
but I haven't checked recently.
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 23:26 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
However, the OP is looking for a iscsi-target...which, if I am not
wrong, does not quite exist yet in Centos/RHEL.
Oh, it does since 5.3.
scsi-target-utils is the package.
Cheers,
Ralph
On Sep 7, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com
wrote:
Did you install your iet from rpms or something then?
No, but it looks like Ross Walker has created an updated spec
in the source. It's the *only* thing I don't use am rpm for as
there isn't anyone with an
Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm
trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act
as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a
decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS.
I would like to setup
On Sep 7, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk
wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Did you install your iet from rpms or something then?
No, but it looks like Ross Walker has created an updated spec
in the source. It's the *only* thing I don't use am rpm for as
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm
trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act
as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a
decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
chan, I already have CentOS 5.3 setup, and we need to use this as far
as possible, due to some of the other software that we'll be using.
See Joseph Casale's post then. It is not quite available on Centos. Roll
your own is the name
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