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Re: [Xen-users] problem with extra storage via iscsi
 
Tammo Schuelke wrote:
 
open-iscsi assigns the discoverd LUN also to /dev/sda
     
 
So the domU does stop working since it's losing its root partition?
If not, what's the output of udevinfo -q symlink -n /dev/sda?
   
 
Thanks for your reply!
 No, the domU keeps working, I think because all partitions are already 
mounted when open-iscsi starts. Output of udevinfo:
root@guest1 ~ # udevinfo -q symlink -n /dev/sda
 disk/by-id/scsi-36006048c630e7b571c1ed50a0956f129 
disk/by-path/ip-10.4.1.201:3260-iscsi-iqn.1992-05.com.emc:ck2000809002410000-7-lun-1
 
In general, iSCSI from within a domU should be working since it's plain TCP/IP.
 
 
Yes, that is exactly what I thought.
 
Performance wise it would probably be better to connect to the targets in dom0 
and assign the LUN to domU as a regular block device.
   
 
 Why would performance be better with an extra layer (dom0)? Connecting 
the LUN to dom0 and assigning it as a regular blockdevice to domU has a 
large drawback: there is no protection against using the same 
blockdevice in multiple domU's. Normally LUN masking would protect 
against that, but a LUN mask is based on IQN, and the IQN belongs to the 
dom0.
Regards,
Gertjan Oude Lohuis
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