Re: iscsi and virtualization

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Hoot
Jonas, You don't have to restart it. /etc/init.d/iscsi will start iscsid + log into any nodes that you've discovered. The only thing you would have to do to add new disks would be to do the following: 1) iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p your_portal_ip_here I usually do that plus pipe that

Re: iscsi and virtualization

2011-01-24 Thread jbygden
On Jan 21, 9:07 pm, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: No, you don't need to restart iscsi services. Just rescan. I've realized that now, thanks. Also: did you consider using LVM on the iSCSI LUNs? I thought about it, but since I'm using LVM within the kvm-guests that are the acutal

Re: iscsi and virtualization

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Lehrer
This is apparently not a good idea - since, as far as I can tell at least, I have to restart the iscsi subsystem every time I present a new disk from the PS6000. A service iscsi restart effectively destroys all KVM guests using existing, already logged in iscsi disks will hang indefinitely

Re: iscsi and virtualization

2011-01-24 Thread jbygden
On Jan 21, 9:23 pm, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: On 01/20/2011 09:15 AM, jbygden wrote: Are you doing a restart so the iscsi service logs into the new targets? Yes, because that's what all the manuals say I have to do. You have already done the disocvery command to find the new

Re: iscsi and virtualization

2011-01-24 Thread Mike Christie
On 01/21/2011 02:36 PM, jbygden wrote: Now, when you've told me I was able to find it in the man page though. The README /usr/share/docs/iscsi-initiator-utils-$VERSION/README might be more helpful. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups open-iscsi

Re: iscsi and virtualization

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Christie
On 01/20/2011 09:15 AM, jbygden wrote: Hi! Is there any best practice on how to use iscsi with virtualization? I have a CentOS 5.5 server running as a KVM host for a couple of guests. I have iscsi-initiator-utils (iscsi-initiator- utils-6.2.0.871-0.16.el5) installed on this host. We have