[ale] linux VM & iscsi array

[Dennis Ruzeski]

Negative-- iSCSI disk presents itself as a block device and needs to be
partitioned and formatted like a standard hard drive.

--Dennis



On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

> My department recently bought an ISCSI array. We have a VMWare esx cluster
> and we'd like to set up a virtual file server to talk to the ISCSI array.
> I'm not in charge of the esx cluster. But I have created a debian squeeze
> virtual machine and the ISCSI array shows up as three 2Gb partitions.
>
> It looks like I have to format these partitions before I can mount them.
> But
> its confusing to me because I thought the ISCSI hardware gave you a
> filesystem and mounting them would be like mounting an nfs partition.
>
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