[Gluster-users] iSCSI and Gluster

Anand Avati avati at gluster.org
Wed Mar 5 17:35:06 UTC 2014


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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