ISCSI export of local storage on virtualization servers
Hi, I am "rediscovering" VMWare ESXi/vSphere (after 4 years things have changed a bit) and discovering Oracle VM at the moment. I have a question related to local storage on both.. I have after installation a lot of unused disk space I would like to export for "other use" via iSCSI target. For Oracle VM, there is a public yum repository but it contains iSCSI initiator stuff only. It is all looking as "borrowed" from RHEL 5 - so.. may an iSCSI target from there work? For VMWare ESXi, I did not come to that yet, I am just starting to investigate. If you have ideas, please let me know. 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) 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?? Regards Peter
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
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