Mounting non virtual volumes

[kylea]

This may be a stupid question - so forgive me.

If I have a virtual server - say RHEL 5.4 can I mount disk volumes from a SAN that are not part of the virtual storage space?

So assume we have a SAN that is connected by 8Gig Fibre Channel to the server hosting ProxMox. Can the Virtual Servers mount the volumes from the SAN?

Version 1.4 mentions:

"LVM (managed storage, shared LVM devices like FC)"

does FC = Fibre Channel, LVM = Logical Volume Manager?

I assume I can - but I need to be sure.

 

[dietmar]

So assume we have a SAN that is connected by 8Gig Fibre Channel to the server hosting ProxMox. Can the Virtual Servers mount the volumes from the SAN?

Such drives appears like normal scsi disks. The suggested way to use such disk is to create an LVM volume group on the disk. Then you can manage it using the web interface.

Or you directly attach the drive to a VM (for example 'qm set <vmid> --ide2 /dev/XXZ')