[Linux-cluster] Alternative to Shared Storage..

[Jeff Macfarland]

Do any of the software targets yet support scsi reservations? The one I 
work with mostly (iet) unfortunately does not.

Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
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> Singh Raina, Ajeet wrote:
>> Hello Guys,
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>> Just Now I have been successful in configuring the two Node Fail-over Cluster. 
>> It was tested on RHEL 4.0 U2.Now I have few queries and I know you people gonna 
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> You probably want to evaluate something a little newer - RHEL-4.2 was
> released some time ago and there have been significant fixes and feature
> enhancements in the releases since that time.
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>> Now Let me tell you I don’t have Shared Storage.Is there any alternative for that.
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>> Somewhere I read about iSCSI but donnno whether it will be helpful.
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> I use software-based iSCSI on pretty much all my test systems - it works
> great. You need the iSCSI initiator package installed on the systems
> that will import the devices and an iSCSI target installed on the host
> that exports the storage. There are several target projects out there in
> varying states of completeness and functionality. I've used iet (iSCSI
> enterprise target) on RHEL4 and there is now also stgt (scsi target
> utils) which is included in the Cluster Storage channel for RHEL5.
> 
>> Do Let me Know how gonna it be possible.Or Any Doc Which Talk about that?
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> http://stgt.berlios.de/
> http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/
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> RHEL5 also supports installing to and booting from software iSCSI targets.
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> Regards,
> Bryn.
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