vSphere and iscsi questions

[Chandler]

I am referencing my post here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1041496700&posted=1#post1041496700

You set up a target volume for every connection.
2 can not share a target volume at the same time.

So I can only share the LUN with one machine?

If you want to share a folder to multiple computers you have to use nfs or cifs not iscsi.

There is very limited performance with NFS + NAS4FREE with ESXI. This is a bummer.

Is this not the way enterprises set up (iSCSI typically)? I thought iSCSI did everything at the block level...
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By these responses I am concluding iSCSI is not practical for multiple nodes sharing storage. How do I best create a cluster with host fail over then?

With iscsi I was planning to use 2 NICs on each host and 8 NICs on the storage server, separating the traffic with VLANS and subnets on it's own private network and enabling round robin giving the hosts max potential at two NICs.

 

[lopoetve]

stormy1 has no idea what he's talking about. None at all.

 

[Chandler]

Awesome. I just read your replies. Thank you very much for the clarification. I will try a few things to see if I can get it going!