Lustre discuss - Jan 2013 - Adding iSCSI SAN to Lustre

I may have an opportunity to repurpose an existing iSCSI SAN device. If I wanted
to add it to an existing Lustre setup (or create a new one) ? my understanding
is that I would need a machine to act as the ?communications link? to Lustre
from the SAN device. Something has to represent the OSS device ? right? An iSCSI
storage device would need a representative for this.. ?

Does that make any sense?
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Jon,

Any block device, be it disk, RAID, IB SRP or iSCSI requires an OSS node 
to front end the block storage. If the iSCSI storage device was a 
storage server with a software iSCSI layer you could potentially strip 
out the iSCSI software and lay down Linux and Lustre on it. Without 
knowing exactly what iSCSI system it is my statement about stripping out 
the software is a generalization.

--Jeff


On 1/28/13 4:13 PM, Jon Yeargers wrote:
>
> I may have an opportunity to repurpose an existing iSCSI SAN device. 
> If I wanted to add it to an existing Lustre setup (or create a new 
> one) ? my understanding is that I would need a machine to act as the 
> ?communications link? to Lustre from the SAN device. Something has to 
> represent the OSS device ? right? An iSCSI storage device would need a 
> representative for this.. ?
>
> Does that make any sense?
>
>
>
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