<div dir="ltr">Hi all. Again.<div><br></div><div>I am still fighting that "VMware esxi cannot use striped gluster volumes" thing, and a couple of crazy ideas are coming to mind.</div><div><br></div><div>One of them is using iSCSI WITH gluster, and esxi connecting via iSCSI.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My experience with iSCSI is limited to a couple of FreeNAS test installs, and some tuning on FreeNAS and esxi in order to implement multipathing, but nothing dead serious.</div><div><br></div><div>I remember that after creating a volume and formating it (zvol), THEN space was allocated to iSCSI. Makes some sense, since iSCIS is a block device, and after it is available, the operating system will actually use it. But it is a bit foggy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am trying to bypass the present limitation on Gluster, which refuses to talk to esxi using a striped volume. </div><div><br></div><div>So, here is the question: anyone here uses gluster and iSCSI ? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Would anyone care to comment on performance of this kind of solution, pros and cons ?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks. </div></div>