[Gluster-users] iSCSI and Gluster

[Anand Avati]

Can you please post some logs (the client logs which is exporting ISCSI)?
It is hard to diagnose issues without logs.

thanks,
Avati


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Carlos Capriotti <capriotti.carlos at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi all. Again.
>
> I am still fighting that "VMware esxi cannot use striped gluster volumes"
> thing, and a couple of crazy ideas are coming to mind.
>
> One of them is using iSCSI WITH gluster, and esxi connecting via iSCSI.
>
> My experience with iSCSI is limited to a couple of FreeNAS test installs,
> and some tuning on FreeNAS and esxi in order to implement multipathing, but
> nothing dead serious.
>
> I remember that after creating a volume and formating it (zvol), THEN
> space was allocated to iSCSI. Makes some sense, since iSCIS is a block
> device, and after it is available, the operating system will actually use
> it. But it is a bit foggy.
>
> I am trying to bypass the present limitation on Gluster, which refuses to
> talk to esxi using a striped volume.
>
> So, here is the question: anyone here uses gluster and iSCSI ?
>
> Would anyone care to comment on performance of this kind of solution, pros
> and cons ?
>
> Thanks.
>
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