PVE 8.0 through iSCSI to Dell MD3600i SAN (MPIO)

[cfgmgr]

PVE developers built an orchestration layer that makes things play nice, albeit they were never designed for it - it works. This is the reason that only LVM Thick is supported with shared SAN storage. Unlike in Thin case, there is no dynamic metadata involved, so a close coordination of cache updates and global locks on config changes, make it possible to use LVM in shared storage case. Of course, with many limitations.

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Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea. It sounds a a little terrifying but if it does work....

I'll have to keep this in mind now

 

[bbgeek17]

I'll have to keep this in mind now

Exactly correct approach, as long as you are aware of limitations and weaknesses and set your expectations accordingly, you should be fine.

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