[ale] linux VM & iscsi array

[Lightner, Jeff]

That’s the difference between iSCSI and NAS (Network Attached Storage).  NAS is shared/exported (NFS or CIFS) over network but iSCSI acts more like SAN (Storage Area Networking) but instead of using fibre it uses standard networking.






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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Ruzeski
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 4:29 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] linux VM & iscsi array

Negative-- iSCSI disk presents itself as a block device and needs to be partitioned and formatted like a standard hard drive.

--Dennis


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net<mailto:john at johnheim.net>> wrote:
My department recently bought an ISCSI array. We have a VMWare esx cluster
and we'd like to set up a virtual file server to talk to the ISCSI array.
I'm not in charge of the esx cluster. But I have created a debian squeeze
virtual machine and the ISCSI array shows up as three 2Gb partitions.

It looks like I have to format these partitions before I can mount them. But
its confusing to me because I thought the ISCSI hardware gave you a
filesystem and mounting them would be like mounting an nfs partition.

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