Hmm, it occurs to me that while its being changed to 255, it should be changed to 65536 or ~2.1million.
Read the comments here: http://blogs.sun.com/wdp/entry/comstar_iscsi Tommy On Nov 19, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Jim Dunham wrote: > Tommy, > >> Thanks for the response. I had heard rumor (read in comments on a sun blog) >> that the OpenStorage (fishworks) box only allows me to create 32 targets. > > It is a fact that iSCSI Target in COMSTAR only supports 32 targets. Work is > in progress to increase this to 255. > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6889663 > > Jim Dunham > Engineering Manager > Core I/O - COMSTAR > Open Storage Systems Group > > >> It could be something underneath that is limiting that, but alas, 32 >> targets. It appear that best practice is to create a target for a virtual >> machine, so that the "alias" is actually useful, like the VM-name. At that >> point, numbered LUNS aren't a big deal really as there would only really be >> a need for 2 at this point. In order to follow that scheme, I am going to >> need FAR more than 32 targets. Instead, I thought I would just create a >> single target for all the VMs in one "farm" and then I would be able to name >> the disks and refer to them by their name somehow. I guess thats out too. >> >> As a workaround I can create LUNs, specifying the LUN numbers, then just >> have some sort of "mapping" document that keeps track of the first 5 belong >> to vm-1 the next 5 belong to vm-2, etc. >> >> I know I am just complaining, but I thought I'd make my case for iSCSI LUN >> aliases. Honestly, its the same problem over FC. Again the storage allows me >> to "name" the LUN, but when I get to the OS, I get a big list of obnoxiously >> named devices and I have to compare WWNs to figure out which is which. I >> guess I want alias names for LUNs in general then :) >> >> Tommy >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> storage-discuss mailing list >> storage-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss >
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