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Post subject: Openfiler  Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:27 pm |
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Anyone used it...? I have some stupidly basic questions if you have 
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:54 pm |
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nope but ask anyway
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:15 am |
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I've created a volume group and some volumes, but can't see a way to add iSCSI initiators to see them though. Theres a dropdown with it's own IQN in, but it's greyed out. I've built it as a VM, attached to a virtual switch dedicated to iSCSI, and a virtual switch for a LAN. The other 12 virtual machines can see each other happily via the virtual switches as expected. I'm sure its the config of the Openfiler, other than setting the IP addresses on both NICs and creating LUNS, theres not much more to it. Or recommend me an small iSCSI appliance I can use for testing virtual clusters on
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:14 am |
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we dont use iscsi here ( cheapo heheh ) fiber channel ftw
i take it the subnetmask is all ok
can you do a tcpdump from the box running openfiler at all / ping the vm`s ?
in the past i had a issue with some dotq1 trunks - turned out the nic couldnt support more a mtu of more that 1500 and i needed a extra 4 btyes for the encapsulation - just a shot in the dark but maybe somert simiar or you going the full jumbo frames route ?
im interested in the outcome of this as im gona be doing somert similar soon i think
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:35 pm |
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| an unsung hero! |
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r u lot having us on ........ have you been fishing for me
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:36 pm |
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shut it lol  I can ping all the iSCSI IPs from the openfiler - it's just the sodding menu for LUN mapping is greyed out  I did a Datacore SANmelody architect course last week which was pretty good....
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:58 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:06 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:23 am |
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Hey GP, what does OpenFiler do? 
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:49 am |
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:54 am |
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iscsi san
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:00 pm |
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I've wimped out and installed SANMelody 
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:38 pm |
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san is block level not file level PAL
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:07 am |
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So, this could turn a normal PC (running appliances) into a SAN?  If not, can you break it down a little for me? I KNOW what a SAN is just a little about it all 
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Post subject: Re: Openfiler Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:37 pm |
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With the SAN it presents logical disks to hosts - rather than appearing as folders (NAS)
You then do all the formatting of these disks etc within the machines using the space.
It allows you to get better value out of storage - create one RAID array on a SAN, then slice it up to multiple hosts, they aren't aware of the RAID etc on the SAN, they just see a disk with whatever capacity you've allocated.
You also use need them with clusters etc, where one disk is accessed by two servers at one.
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