On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > I am confused, because I would have expected a 1-to-1 mapping, if you create > an iscsi target on some system, you would have to specify which LUN it > connects to. But that is not the case...
Nope. one target can have anything from zero (which is kinda useless) or many LUNs. > I shouldn't be thinking in such linear terms. When I create an iscsi > target, don't think of it as connecting to a device - instead, think of it > as sort of a channel. Any initiator connecting to it can see any of the > devices that I have done add-views on. Yup > But each iscsi target can only be > used by one initiator at a time. Nope. Many people use iscsi to provide shared storage (e.g. for clustering), where two or more initiators connetcs to the same target. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
