Negative-- iSCSI disk presents itself as a block device and needs to be partitioned and formatted like a standard hard drive.<br><br>--Dennis<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, John Heim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.net">john@johnheim.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">My department recently bought an ISCSI array. We have a VMWare esx cluster<br>
and we'd like to set up a virtual file server to talk to the ISCSI array.<br>
I'm not in charge of the esx cluster. But I have created a debian squeeze<br>
virtual machine and the ISCSI array shows up as three 2Gb partitions.<br>
<br>
It looks like I have to format these partitions before I can mount them. But<br>
its confusing to me because I thought the ISCSI hardware gave you a<br>
filesystem and mounting them would be like mounting an nfs partition.<br>
<br>
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