Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] Multipath to two IET nodes?

[Shankhadeep S. <sha...@gm...>]

Not really Michael, if you're interested in dual primary mode you can look
into LIO which supports ALUA. You can use this feature with the linux port
of ZFS (use zfs import ) and pull something together than may work.

http://linux-iscsi.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/linux-iscsi-target-dev/QrZiOnLEzeo


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Kushnir, Michael (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] <
mic...@ni...> wrote:

> No. This has been beat to death already. See:
> http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/dual-primary-drbd-iscsi-and-multipath-dont-do-that/
>
> Michael
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Luca Lesinigo [lu...@lm...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:21 PM
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> Subject: [Iscsitarget-devel] Multipath to two IET nodes?
>
> I can put together two linux servers and use DRBD in dual-primary mode to
> get a shared block device with concurrent read/write access on the two
> nodes.
>
> Can I then export an iSCSI target from each node and use the two like a
> single multipath iSCSI device?
> eg. to simulate a dual-controller iSCSI storage array
>
> I would guess it is possible if the iSCSI multipath implementation assumes
> completely independent targets for the multiple paths, and it would fail if
> the two need to know about each other. But I don't know iSCSI enough to
> answer that question :)
>
> thanks,
> --
> Luca Lesinigo
>
>
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