On Mar 3, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Drew Fisher wrote: > > > On 3/2/12 9:13 AM, Jesse Butler wrote: >> >> Hi Drew- >> >> I've got a wrinkle here, and I'm sorry as it seems to be related to a >> failure of imagination on my part. >> >> In looking at your screens, I am realizing that the user will be required to >> specify a LUN number, and that only that particular iSCSI LUN will be >> presented to them for installation. I believe that's not correct. I >> understand that we specify a LUN number based upon my input regarding AI >> manifest configuration for iSCSI targets. That is because we can't guess at >> what levels of LUN masking are in play on the initiator, and we don't just >> want to arbitrarily start installing to iSCSI LUNs that "look right"... so I >> suggested that we require a LUN number specification. Now, we come to my >> failure of imagination... >> >> I had not at the time understood that the decision to require LUN number >> would play forward into usage in the interactive installers. I would think >> that users should be able to specify an IP address, IQN, etc and have the >> LUNs available to them presented, just as is the case with other disks. >> >> A good way to look at this is to compare the iSCSI configuration to an >> array... a iSCSI target (IP addr, IQN, etc) is the array, and the LUNs are >> the disks inside. If you have a Fibre Channel array attached to a machine, >> you would list all of the disks in the install screens for selection, right? >> I think the same behavior would be expected with iSCSI. >> >> Let me know if you want to discuss this. If the upshot is that it's too much >> to consider at this point, I'd be fine with specifying the LUN now, and >> having an RFE for the future. > > You're absolutely right and QE has pointed this issue out as well. I'll > investigate making the target LUN optional. If not provided, return all of > the LUNs from the target. If it is provided, display only that specific LUN. > > How does that sound? > > -Drew
Sounds like exactly what I had in mind, perfect. /jb _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
