On 12/04/2012 06:58 PM, Lee Duncan wrote: > On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Mike Christie <micha...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > >> On 12/04/2012 05:22 PM, Lee Duncan wrote: >>> Hi Mike: >>> >>> I am trying to create a Persistent Reservations test suite for iSCSI >>> targets, and i was wondering if I could use open-iscsi on the initiator >>> side to do that. >>> >>> Part of the requirement is that I need to support multiple I_T Nexuses, >>> since Group Reservations are based on the I_T Nexus. If I can send from >>> multiple initiators on the same host, I could eliminate the current >>> requirement to test from multiple hosts. >>> >> >> You can create multiple initiators. Just create ifaces with different >> initiator names. The problem though is that the iSID is not persistent >> across logins, so if you were to login/logout using iscsiadm from the >> target for any reason then the persistent reservations are going to get >> messed up. >> > > Would that be a problem for Persisting a reservation in general, then?
Not sure what you mean exactly. If you are using the reservation for just the life of the session then no, but I do not think that is common. It seems like you are likely to reboot your box or login/logout of the target once in a while. > > As far as my testing, that requirement should not be a problem. > -- > Lee Duncan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi?hl=en.
