Daniel, Thank you Very much for you efforts. I'll be studying these with interest. I also plan on replying to the previous response to my request for help on shard storage later today. I'm still trying to run some tests to see if I understand how the Pools vs Volumes work with libvirt and iSCSI. Thanks again! David. On Wed, 5 May 2010, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
DV suggested that we document some libvirt setups using shared storage. I'm not a fan of NFS, so I wrote some blog posts on how to use iSCSI in the context of libvirt + KVM.
There is of course more than one way todo things, so I've outlined a couple of different options. One completely manual command line approach using tgtadm on the iSCSI server:
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-is...
..and virsh/virt-install on the KVM host
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-is...
Then one completely GUI based approach, using a QNAP NAS as the iSCSI server
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-is...
..and a virt-manager on the KVM host:
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-is...
You can of course mix+match, doing the iSCSI server the manual way and the libvirt bits the GUI way and vica-verca. Any other commercial iSCSI server will have the same concepts so the libvirt instructions apply in all likely scenarios.
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