Re: How many S/W iSCSI Initiators on same machine?

2009-08-06 Thread Rainer Bläs
Tank you, Mike! With the current open-iscsi version, you can set a initiator name per iface. Which version (2.0871??) do you mean. On my SLES 10SP2 there is version 2.0707 and this does not work: #iscsiadm -m iface -I eth0 -o update -n iface.initiatorname -v iqn. 2009-08.com.test Still

Re: How many S/W iSCSI Initiators on same machine?

2009-08-06 Thread Mike Christie
On 08/06/2009 08:23 AM, Rainer Bläs wrote: Tank you, Mike! With the current open-iscsi version, you can set a initiator name per iface. Which version (2.0871??) do you mean. On my SLES 10SP2 there is version 2.0707 and this does not work: I think 707 is too old. You need at least

Re: How many S/W iSCSI Initiators on same machine?

2009-08-05 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 4 Aug 2009 at 1:16, Rainer Bläs wrote: Thanks for your answer! Yes, by using #iscsiadm -m iface -I ethN, N=1...6 we can have 6 iSCSI sessions. But now there is the question HOWTO assign an initiator name for EACH session? I think the concept is that one physical machine has one

Re: How many S/W iSCSI Initiators on same machine?

2009-08-05 Thread Mike Christie
On 08/04/2009 04:05 PM, Donald Williams wrote: I don't know if there's a way to set unique initiator names for each NIC. A With the current open-iscsi version, you can set a initiator name per iface. So if you created a iface per nic then set a different initiator name for each iface, I

Re: How many S/W iSCSI Initiators on same machine?

2009-08-04 Thread Rainer Bläs
Thanks for your answer! Yes, by using #iscsiadm -m iface -I ethN, N=1...6 we can have 6 iSCSI sessions. But now there is the question HOWTO assign an initiator name for EACH session? For one iSCSI session it can be found in the /etc/iscsi/ initiatorname.iscsi File:

Re: How many S/W iSCSI Initiators on same machine?

2009-08-04 Thread Donald Williams
I don't know if there's a way to set unique initiator names for each NIC. A quick scan of the config file didn't show anything. I *believe* iscsid has the initiator name so it's a global parameter. Why do you want unique names for each initiator? What do you think it will gain you? -don On

Re: How many S/W iSCSI Initiators on same machine?

2009-08-03 Thread Donald Williams
Hello, I'm not sure what your question really is. Yes, you can have 6x GbE interfaces on different subnets and run iSCSI over them. What target are you using? Typically, your iSCSI SAN is on one subnet. It avoids the need to do IP routing. Which adds latency and can reduce performance.