Hi,
On 4 Feb 2015, at 11:42 am, Peter Ross <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:
I have after installation a lot of unused disk space I would like to export for "other use" via iSCSI target.
It is all looking as "borrowed" from RHEL 5 - so.. may an iSCSI target from there work?
Technically: yes. However, we strongly recommend you don't. However, if you absolutely really want to, I recommend using NFS instead of iSCSI to share the unused space. You should also be using Oracle VM 3.3 (which is the latest) which has an OL6 userspace, not OL5. Also, with OVM 3.3, the unused local space can now be used as a storage repository for local VMs.
As a side: I installed the Oracle VM Manager on my 8GB desktop, which made the boot so tiresome that in the beginning I thought, it is not booting at all (making coffee is too fast, it gives you time to drink it too)
Again, ensure you're running Oracle VM 3.3 which uses MySQL Enterprise by default. It's also a lot faster. However, the initial startup of WebLogic can be pretty long as it runs all the discovery scripts to find and enumerate active OVM servers.
Location-wise, what is the "right thing to do"? I am tempted to put it on a Oracle VM Server but that would not work well if I have a Server problem and no manager either... Well, I could put it on two servers??
Either run it in VirtualBox or install it on another server. We don't recommend running Oracle VM Manager as a guest of the server its managing for exactly that reason. Cheers, Avi