[pve-devel] [PATCH] add ide-cd, ide-hd, scsi-cd, scsi-hd, scsi-block to device syntax

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

> Don't know , i didn't have tested this new feature :) . I don't know if it's work 
> with iscsi block device or only local scsi device. 
> 
> So, I'm waiting your qemu 1.0 package ;) 

>>just committed pve-qemu-kvm and new qemu-server packages - please test. 

  Thanks !

> They are a new cool features I want to test, like built-in iscsi initiator.(but no 
> multipath yet) So no more need to use initiator on host. (I'm playing with 400 
> luns,it begin to take a very long time when the host boot.) 
> 
> something like that 
> qemu -drive file=iscsi://10.0.01/iqn.qemu.test/1 
> 
> I think I will be the best way to access iscsi devices in the future. 

>>why? Do you expect better performance? 

  Yes, I had read on qemu mailing that perf are already faster (20% faster).
 
> But they are a drawback with current config syntax, if we don't have initiator on 
> the host side, we can't list iscsi devices so and we can't have disk id. 
> 
> So maybe we can change config syntax from by example: 
> 
> virtio0: nexenta:0.0.1.scsi-3600144f0f62f0e0000004cd953550008,cache=none 
> 
> to 
> 
> virtio0: nexenta:1,cache=none (just put lunid) 

>>If you define a storage, that storage is always activated on the host. 

 I was thinking of using a syntax that works for both case, if in the future we don't need to have storage activated on host.

> Then 
> - If we use host initiator, on vm start, just search the iscsi device path. 
> - If we use the built-in initiator, just pass lunid in parameter. 
> 
> 
> Also it's correcting a problem with my nexenta san, when I unmap/remap a disk 
> on a lun, (when I rollback a snapshot by example), 
> The disk id change, so I need to reedit the vm config to change the disk id. 
> Don't know for other iscsi san. 
> 
> So I think finding path from lunid at vm start is the best way. 
> 
> What do you think about it ? 

>>I think you should use LVM on to of iSCSI instead. Why do you try to avoid that? 


 I don't use LVM, because I need to have 1 lun by disk because :

 - I need to manage disk snapshots/clone on my san.
 - Also I need to tune disks (lun), cluster size,writeback,... depending on the workload of my vms, 
 - I need mount 1 disk on 2 vm (cluster with ocfs2)
 - also with future virtio-scsi device, it will be possible to do iscsi passthrough from guest directly to san. (I see benchs of 40000io/s on dev patchs)

so lvm is not an option ;)



-Alexandre
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