[Gluster-users] iSCSI and Gluster

[Anand Subramanian]

Hope you have seen this: 
https://www.gluster.org/2013/12/libgfapi-and-the-linux-target-driver/

Anand


On 03/05/2014 10:58 PM, Carlos Capriotti 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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