[ale] linux VM & iscsi array

[Lightner, Jeff]

Since Windoze doesn't play well with others its probably best to setup CIFS exports so Windoze thinks they are "normal" then use Samba on the other two platforms to use the same mounts.   (Otherwise you'd have to find an NFS client for Windoze.)

Where are you exporting the shares from?   As already noted iSCSI itself is not NAS so you'll need to mount it on one host to export to the others.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of John Heim
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:41 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] linux VM & iscsi array

Okay. Any recommendations for best fs? I have about 50% linux users mounting
home directories via nfs and about 50% using Windows and accessing the same
space via samba.  Plus I have a handful of Mac users as well. Some of those
people use nfs and some use samba. Actually, most the most important people
in the department are Mac users. I don't know if that's a coincidence or
not.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Ruzeski" <denniruz at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 3:28 PM
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> 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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