Gents, Thanks for the article, you were correct :) You dont see any dangers in doing this, do you? As long as I resotre VMs and change the disk location information, I should be ok... ya? :)
Vasiliy On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Luke Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ESX hides replicas of file systems by default so you don't Do Something > Stupid. > > http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_iscsi_san_cfg.pdf > > Page 117 - VMFS Volume Resignaturing, DisallowSnapshotLUN, etc. > > Cheers, > > Luke Smith > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron > Stranberg > Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 11:55 AM > To: Vasiliy Boulytchev > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OF-users] ESX/iSCSI storage replication > > Hmm, did esx connect to it and show no files, or did it ask you if you > wanted to initialize the storage? > > -Aaron > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Vasiliy Boulytchev > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gents, > Imagine the following scenario: > • ESX 3.5 sees iSCSI lun from Openfiler (2.2) > • Create a snapshot of this logical volume like: > lvcreate -L200G -s -n esxsnapshot /dev/volumegroup/storage > • Replicate this snapshot via dd on another volume (which is also being > served by iSCSI via OpenFiler) > dd bs=8M if=/dev/volumegroup/esxsnapshot of=/dev/volumegroup/restore > • /dev/volumegroup/restore and /dev/volumegroup/storage are of identical > size, and were created in the same manner via the Openfiler gui. > • This is being done for backup/restore purposes... > Now, when I rescan the ESX Storage adapter (after tweaking ietd.conf on > Openfiler and increasing LUN ID), I see the "restore" iscsi LUN, however, > ESX thinks its empty. > > Where is the mistake? > > THANKS!!! > > Vasiliy > > _______________________________________________ > Openfiler-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Openfiler-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users >
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