[libvirt-users] FYI: Notes on setting up KVM guests using iSCSI

[David Ehle]

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-iscsi-the-hard-way-part-1-of-2/
>
> ..and virsh/virt-install on the KVM host
>
>  http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-the-hard-way-part-2-of-2/
>
> 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-iscsi-with-qnap-virt-manager-part-1-of-2/
>
> ..and a virt-manager on the KVM host:
>
>  http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-with-qnap-virt-manager-part-2-of-2/
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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