[libvirt-users] FYI: Notes on setting up KVM guests using iSCSI

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:28:15AM -0500, David Ehle wrote:
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> 
> Thank you Very much for you efforts. I'll be studying these with interest.
> 
> I also plan on replying to the previous response to my request for help on 
> shard storage later today.  I'm still trying to run some tests to see if I 
> understand how the Pools vs Volumes work with libvirt and iSCSI.

For iSCSI  

 - Pool == A single target
 - Volume == A LUN within a target

So, if your iSCSI server exports many iSCSI targets, you'd setup a separate
pool for each target you want to access from libvirt. This post covers iSCSI 
pool setup at a low level:

http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-the-hard-way-part-2-of-2/

Regards,
Daniel
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