[GRLUG] booting from iscsi target

[Mike Williams]

I've played around with it, but haven't gotten anything working. The 
iscsi initiator (Windows 7) will recognize and connect to an iscsi 
target (sometimes Ubuntu, sometimes Windows 2008), but I can't seem to 
actually attach to a LUN. I'm not interested in performance or dedicated 
hardware at this point; I just want to establish that you can run a 
diskless workstation over iscsi.

On 12/23/2011 10:19 AM, scott.tanner at comcast.net wrote:
> Hey Mike,
> Did you ever get the information you were looking for on this?
>
> I have a little experience with an iscsi arrays, and lab'd up a test 
> environment using the Linux Target framework (tgt) on one (beefy) 
> server and the iscsi-initiator software on a few clients.  My setup 
> was a little different as it's CentOS/Xen based, but most of the 
> design principles would be the same.
>
> Added warning - not all ISCSI systems are created equal!  Sadly my 
> test environment GREATLY outperformed the Infortrend ISCSI array we 
> purchased, averaging around %40 better performance for read/write 
> block I/O (bonnie++).  After a growth spurt in our QA department which 
> doubled the VM count, the ISCSI system was demoted to bulk storage and 
> a new SAS-based SAN was just purchased.  I've been told by some 
> storage specialists that many providers tweak the ISCSI controllers 
> for better throughput, apparently Infortrend does not.
>
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Mike Williams" <knightperson at zuzax.com>
> *To: *"Grand Rapids Linux Users Group" <grlug at grlug.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:48:02 AM
> *Subject: *[GRLUG] booting from iscsi target
>
> I remember somebody on the list or at The Warehouse was doing this.
> Whoever you are, can I pick your brain on duplicating that feat? I'm
> want to get a Virtualbox Windows 7 guest to boot, first from the host
> Ubuntu 11.10 but eventually from a guest Windows 2008, to prove to my
> employer that Windows 7 will run happily disklessly.
>
> I'm trying to learn about five new things at once here, and my brain is
> overflowing!
>
> Thanks.
>
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