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Re: [Xen-users] iSCSI target - run in Dom0 or DomU?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] iSCSI target - run in Dom0 or DomU?
From: Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:49:13 -0500
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On Thursday 24 August 2006 7:10 am, Thomas Harold wrote:
> My plan for the disks is to lay software RAID over the disks (RAID1 for
> the first pair, RAID10 for the second set of 6 disks).  Then lay LVM on
> top of mdadm's software RAID before handing it off to iscsitarget to be
> divided up for use by the iSCSI initiators.

do you plan to export the LVs over iSCSI?   i would advise to export the PVs 
(/dev/mdX), and do CVLM on dom0 of the iSCSI initiators.  that way, you could 
add more storage boxes (with more PVs) to the same VG

-- 
Javier

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