On 12/12/14 0:12 , Don Jackson via smartos-discuss wrote: > > I have a potential project/installation where all the “compute nodes” would > lack physical hard disks, and get all their storage via an iscsi san. > > I am assuming that smartos-live and the existing installer do not currently > support this, is that correct?
Correct, this is not supported at all. > If not, how doable would it be to modify smartos-live to support this? > > I’m a complete iscsi newbie, but my preliminary research indicates that > smartos does includes support for an iscsi initiator already. > I’d appreciate a SWAG/guesstimate of the level of difficultly of doing this. While completely possible with general illumos, it is generally going to involve you doing a lot of fighting. SmartOS is designed to only ever have its zones and primary storage on local disk. That's an explicit design choice and not something that we're going to change. If you have to go down the iSCSI path, then I'd probably suggest you use a different illumos distribution. However, if you're willing to make a bunch of local customizations or use a lot of /opt/custom/smf scripts, then you may be able to make it work, but it's something you'll have to create, debug, test, support, etc. Robert ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
