but you can add a iscsi disk to a existing iscsi domain ... see attached screenshot .. .if the disk you're adding has the same LUN ID as the already existing one, ovirt will just "add it" as a 2nd / 3rd / 4th and so forth path ...
On 3 April 2013 10:49, Yuriy Demchenko <demchenko...@gmail.com> wrote: > You mean add new path by hands on each node via iscsiadm ? And how that > changes survive possible node reboots / reinstalls, as i suppose - it > wouldn't? > In ovirt webadmin i cannot edit added domain - connection information is > greyed out (even when storage domain in maintenance mode) > > Yuriy Demchenko > > On 04/03/2013 01:00 PM, Alex Leonhardt wrote: > > I think i'd just add the 2nd path when the device is available ... i've > recently exprimented with iscsi / tgtd and multipath on a ovirt hyper-visor > and it will identify the disk as "the same" (new path to target) as long as > the LUN ID is the same (this is taken from experience, not from a spec > document) ... > > > On 3 April 2013 08:14, Yuriy Demchenko <demchenko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I guess you misunderstood me >> I'm going to try this scheme: >> |STORAGE| >> FC / \ >> |SERV1/tgtd| |SERV2/tgtd| >> iSCSI \ / >> |ethernet switches| >> iSCSI |||||||| >> |blades|blades|blades| >> >> serv1/serv2 - connectivity isnt a problem, multipathed FC scheme, all >> good. Same lun accessible for both servers and than exported via tgtd to >> iSCSI: with different target names ("iqn.2013-03.serv1:store", >> "iqn.2013-03.serv2:store"), but same vendor_id, product_id, scsi_sn, >> scsi_id. That way client can login into both targets and see lun as >> multipathed device. >> And multipath failover scheme (via custom config with >> path_grouping_policy=failover for corresponding vendor_id/product_id) is on >> blades-clients - so they use only one target at time (no round-robin or >> similar stuff), but with ability to switch to another target in case one of >> serv1/serv2 is down. >> >> However, in my case "serv2" would not be available during oVirt setup >> (need to setup ovirt and virtual servers to move stuff first), so i cant >> enter both targets on storage domain initialization - that's why I'm asking >> if there's any way to edit storage domain details after initialization >> without destroying it (maybe directly via sql or something). >> >> Yuriy Demchenko >> >> >> On 04/02/2013 06:26 PM, Shu Ming wrote: >> >>> I am not sure if the multipathd can recognize the FC path to the storage >>> when the second server is available and regards it as the same as the iSCSI >>> path used before. If it is not, I think the device under /dev/mapper may >>> change when you cut the iSCSI path off and then enable FC path. That will >>> definitely corrupt the meta data of the volume group which the storage >>> domain is sitting on and the storage domain will be corrupted finally. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > > > -- > | RHCE | Sen Sys Engineer / Platform Architect | www.vcore.co | > www.vsearchcloud.com | > > > -- | RHCE | Sen Sys Engineer / Platform Architect | www.vcore.co | www.vsearchcloud.com |
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