[libvirt-users] iscsi w/ libvirt

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:28:51PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 
> "Playing" with a NAS capable of iscsi ... trying to make use of it
> within the virtual machine manager.
> 
> Could someone point me at or provide me an example/screenshot of adding
> iscsi to my KVM-host?
> 
> I think I still don't get it.
> 
> Should I add an iscsi-LUN as a storage-pool? Or as single disk to a VM?

A storage pool maps to an iSCSI target.  LUNs in the target, appear as
storage volumes inside the pool. A storage volume is then assigned as a
single disk to a VM.

> Could someone pls point me at some docs to make me understand?

These 4 blog posts should help your understanding.

http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-with-qnap-virt-manager-part-1-of-2/
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-with-qnap-virt-manager-part-2-of-2/

http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-the-hard-way-part-1-of-2/
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-the-hard-way-part-2-of-2/

Regards,
Daniel
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