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On 12/6/2018 9:58 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2018-12-06 15:24:37 +0000 (+0000), Balázs Gibizer wrote:
> [...]
>> In order to boot bare metal instance from ScaleIO volume, the BIOS
>> should be able to act as ScaleIO client, which will likely never
>> happen. ScaleIO used to have a capability to expose the volumes
>> over standard iSCSI, but this capability has been removed long
>> time ago. As this was a feature in the past, making Dell/EMC to
>> re-introduce it may not be completely impossible if there is high
>> enough interest for that. However, this would vanish the power of
>> the proprietary protocol which let the client to balance the load
>> towards multiple servers.
> [...]
>
> You'd only need iSCSI support for bootstrapping though, right? Once
> you're able to boot a ramdisk with the ScaleIO (my friends at EMC
> would want me to remind everyone it's called "VFlexOS" now) driver
> it should be able to pivot to their proprietary protocol. In theory
> some running service on the network could simply act as an iSCSI
> proxy for that limited purpose.
Good question.  Don't know the details there.  I am going to add Helen 
Walsh who works on the Dell/EMC drivers to see if she could help give 
some insight.

Jay