On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:45:31PM -0700, Joseph Mocker wrote:

> The problem I see is that you cannot be guaranteed that the device name 
> that the iSCSI target gets mapped to on each system will be the same. In 
> my test rig, for example, I see:
> 
>    
>    on host1: /dev/rdsk/c2t010000144F40979800002A0048D97F70d0s2
>    on host2: /dev/rdsk/c4t010000144F40979800002A0048D97F70d0s2
> 
> (Notice the controller number differs.)
> 
> For now, I have worked around this with the use of symlinks to the 
> devices which are then specified in the domain config rather than these 
> dev links above.

Seems like a reasonable work around.

It would be nice to be able to open by a meaningful Device ID such as
the Alias value, but iSCSI on Solaris falls far short here.

> Anyone doing migration with domains iSCSI? How are you doing it?

We are regularly. Sadly it's by having the same disk setup across the
hosts, so the controller number is matched.

regards
john
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