Posted on May 3, 2008 by Gaurav Verma
A special need..
Those of you who have a need for exposing iscsi targets to other machines for discovery, but who do not want to invest in an external USB hard disk OR who do not want to have a USB external hard disk connected to a desktop 24×7, there is a better way of [...]
Filed under: 10g RAC, SAN, Virtualbox, external hard disk, host only networking, iscsi initiator, iscsi target, linux, open-iscsi, oracle | Tagged: /dev/hda, /dev/sda, Gutsy gibbon, hardy heron, host only networking, iscsi, iscsi initiator, iscsi target, iscsiadm, logical volume, LUN, open-iscsi, openfiler, physical volume, Ubuntu, USB external hard disk, volume group | 4 Comments »
Posted on May 1, 2008 by Gaurav Verma
A common problem…
If you are using openfiler, at some point of time, you are bound to reboot the openfiler OS/machine. After the reboot, a common problem is that openfiler forgets or loses the logical volume/volume group information.
So, as a workaround, you need to issue the following commands:
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# to discover the volume groups
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# vgscan [...]
Filed under: Virtualbox, iscsi initiator, iscsi target, linux, linux-iscsi, network attached storage, openfiler | Tagged: dmesg, iscsi, iscsi target, logical volume, LUN, no luns detected, openfiler, volume group | 1 Comment »