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255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">I have a question
relating to nova-volume, and provisioning block devices as storage
for VMs. As I understand it from the documentation, nova-volume
will take a block device with LVM on it, and then become an iSCSI
target to share the logical volumes to compute nodes. I also
understand that there is another process for using an HP lefthand
SAN or solaris iSCSI setup, whereby nova-volume can interact with
APIs for volume creation on the SAN itself.</span><br
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255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">I have a dell
iSCSI SAN, and I can see that I'd be able to mount a LUN from the
SAN on my nova-volume node, then go through the documented process
of creating an LVM on this LUN and having nova-volume re-share it
over iSCSI to the compute nodes, but what I'm wondering is whether
I can have the compute nodes simple connect to the iSCSI SAN to
access these volumes (which would be created and managed by
nova-volume still), rather than connect each compute node to the
iSCSI target which nova-volume presents? I imagine with this
setup, I could take advantage of the SAN's HA and performance
benefits.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
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