HI,

Each host should have its own iSCSI connection to the SAN.  That, most
likely, implies an iSCSI connection between each host and the SAN.  I
suppose you could use NFS instead of iSCSI, but I suspect iSCSI would be
better.

You do NOT want to have host1 have a connection to the SAN and then hosts
2 and 3 access the SAN via host1, because if host1 goes down, then hosts 2
and 3 lose access to storage.

Note that you still have a single point of failure:  the SAN itself.

-derek

On Fri, October 31, 2025 9:44 am, provensen--- via Users wrote:
> I am new to oVirt, and I am trying to find the right solution for my LAN.
> On an air-gapped network, I have 3 Dell PowerEdge servers running Alma
> Linux 9 and 1 IBM SAN. I have 3 iSCSI connections from the IBM SAN to the
> 3 Dell servers. I am looking to install oVirt as 3 Enterprise Linux hosts
> on the 3 Dell servers. I need the 3 Enterprise Linux hosts to have shared
> storage, so all 3 hosts can access all of the virtual machines. I need the
> storage to have high availability, so if 1 host goes down the virtual
> machines can run on the other hosts. Which kind of storage do I use for
> this? NFS, iSCSI, cluster...etc?
> Also, do I connect the IBM SAN to only 1 host, and share that IBM SAN
> storage with the other 2 hosts, or would I create 3 separate iSCSI
> connections to each host? I would really appreciate any assistance from
> anyone. Thank you.
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