Hope you have seen this: https://www.gluster.org/2013/12/libgfapi-and-the-linux-target-driver/

Anand


On 03/05/2014 10:58 PM, Carlos Capriotti wrote:
Hi all. Again.

I am still fighting that "VMware esxi cannot use striped gluster volumes" thing, and a couple of crazy ideas are coming to mind.

One of them is using iSCSI WITH gluster, and esxi connecting via iSCSI.

My experience with iSCSI is limited to a couple of FreeNAS test installs, and some tuning on FreeNAS and esxi in order to implement multipathing, but nothing dead serious.

I remember that after creating a volume and formating it (zvol), THEN space was allocated to iSCSI. Makes some sense, since iSCIS is a block device, and after it is available, the operating system will actually use it. But it is a bit foggy.

I am trying to bypass the present limitation on Gluster, which refuses to talk to esxi using a striped volume.

So, here is the question: anyone here uses gluster and iSCSI ?

Would anyone care to comment on performance of this kind of solution, pros and cons ?

Thanks.


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