This is just a quick one...
I run a 16 node production proxmox cluster that in the immediate future will be taking down for an upgrade / rebuild to VE 4.x from 3.3. I am also going to be provisioning a lot more iSCSI storage on our 10Gbit SAN.
Currently I present a couple of large LUNS to the proxmox hosts via iSCSI and have configured multipath devices for each, which I then present as LVM through the proxmox GUI.
I was wondering if I could just do the same, iscsi with multipath... But instead of LVM, format the attached LUN's with a filesystem and add them in as a directory through the Proxmox GUI?
This way I could take advantage of Snapshots again. I don't have any IO performance sensitive applications that require direct LVM volumes so thats not an issue.
Is this possible or would it be a problem when mounting the same formatted LUN's on all 16 hosts?
Tom
I run a 16 node production proxmox cluster that in the immediate future will be taking down for an upgrade / rebuild to VE 4.x from 3.3. I am also going to be provisioning a lot more iSCSI storage on our 10Gbit SAN.
Currently I present a couple of large LUNS to the proxmox hosts via iSCSI and have configured multipath devices for each, which I then present as LVM through the proxmox GUI.
I was wondering if I could just do the same, iscsi with multipath... But instead of LVM, format the attached LUN's with a filesystem and add them in as a directory through the Proxmox GUI?
This way I could take advantage of Snapshots again. I don't have any IO performance sensitive applications that require direct LVM volumes so thats not an issue.
Is this possible or would it be a problem when mounting the same formatted LUN's on all 16 hosts?
Tom