Re: [CentOS] openfiler (was: using CentOS as an iSCSI server?)

Alan McKay wrote:

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I thought the original object was to make the space available to multiple VMware ESX(i) servers so you could vmotion guests among them. Can ESX construct raids out of multiple iscsi sources?

Well, my original may have been a bit obtuse because I do not really know what I am looking for :-)

I have a bunch of local disk all over the place. I eventually want to virtualize everything, so I'd like a way to virtualize that localdisk and do fancy things with it :-)

If you don't need vmotion you could just use a small local disk to boot the guest OS and let the guest do the iscsi connections itself for the main part of its storage - in which case the software raid from different targets should work.