PVE iSCSI Multiple Portals / Targets

devinacosta

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I am using a Dell Compellent SAN that has multiple controllers and I would like to get Proxmox to log into both sides of the SAN. I see in the interface it only seems to want to allow me to log into one portal. Do I need to modify the storage.cfg file in /etc/pve ? Or do I just need to add the multiple targets manually in the GUI and just keep telling it not to use the LUN directly?

So in essence i want to have all 4 Targets logged in on each of my hosts and group the disks as they should be group for failover/redundancy.

root@node-07:/etc# pvesm iscsiscan -portal 100.100.100.100
iqn.2002-03.com.compellent:5000d310013dfe21 100.100.100.100:3260
iqn.2002-03.com.compellent:5000d310013dfe1f 100.100.100.100:3260

root@node-07:/etc# pvesm iscsiscan -portal 100.100.101.100
iqn.2002-03.com.compellent:5000d310013dfe20 100.100.101.100:3260
iqn.2002-03.com.compellent:5000d310013dfe1e 100.100.101.100:3260
 
I haven't done that with pure Proxmox VE, but I have done it with "ordinary" iscsi client on Debian with multipathed luns and LVM on top. That works and abstracts the complexity and high availability from PVE. PVE only sees shared LVM storage.
 

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