[ale] linux VM & iscsi array

[John Heim]

I am using a debian squeeze virtual machine on a VMWare exx cluster. The 
ISCSI disk shows up as three 2Gb partitions. I formatted them ax xfs but I 
can still change that.

Are you suggesting I automount linux user's home directories via smb instead 
of nfs?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] linux VM & iscsi array


> Since Windoze doesn't play well with others its probably best to setup 
> CIFS exports so Windoze thinks they are "normal" then use Samba on the 
> other two platforms to use the same mounts.   (Otherwise you'd have to 
> find an NFS client for Windoze.)
>
> Where are you exporting the shares from?   As already noted iSCSI itself 
> is not NAS so you'll need to mount it on one host to export to the others.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of John 
> Heim
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:41 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] linux VM & iscsi array
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> Okay. Any recommendations for best fs? I have about 50% linux users 
> mounting
> home directories via nfs and about 50% using Windows and accessing the 
> same
> space via samba.  Plus I have a handful of Mac users as well. Some of 
> those
> people use nfs and some use samba. Actually, most the most important 
> people
> in the department are Mac users. I don't know if that's a coincidence or
> not.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Ruzeski" <denniruz at gmail.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] linux VM & iscsi array
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>
>> 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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