[pve-devel] any plan for zfs over open-iscsi (linux)?

[Travis Osterman]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:56 PM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
wrote:

> On 18.10.21 20:09, Travis Osterman wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:05 AM Thomas Lamprecht <
> t.lamprecht at proxmox.com wrote:
> >> On 18.10.21 04:04, Travis Osterman wrote:
> >>> I think the title says it all. I use open-iscsi for my SAN and wondered
> >>> whether there was a plan to support that the way LIO and IET are
> >> supported
> >>> within Proxmox. Neither LIO or IET are available for my linux
> >> distribution
> >>> and do not seem to be actively supported.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not a native perl coder but would happily be a tester for anyone
> >>> interested in this feature. If I'm alone, I may start trying to come up
> >>> with something. Thanks.
> >>
> >> I'm only waking up so excuse if I overlook something, but what's wrong
> >> with the non-user-mode iSCSI storage type of PVE?
> >>
> >> https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html#storage_open_iscsi
> >>
> >>
> > That does, indeed, work fine. iSCSI over ZFS provides additional support
> > for quickly provisioning, snapshotting and rolling back images all
> through
> > the UI. From what I can see, proxmox connects to the NAS to issue the
> > commands to perform those functions. When I use the iSCSI (without ZFS),
> I
> > have access both proxmox and my NAS. Does that make sense?
> >
>
> Oh, it seems I just somehow missed the "zfs" part yesterday (local)
> morning..
>
> As we already have the base support for the other target providers it can
> make sense to at least evaluate this and if no show-stoppers come up also
> integrate it into PVE.
>
> Can you please open a enhancement request over at:
> https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/
>
> Some more details regarding your SAN would be also nice to have in that
> request, if possible.
>
> cheers,
> Thomas
>
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Thanks, Thomas. I also incorrectly wrote "open-iscsi" which is my typical
iscsi client instead of "TGTD" which is my SAN target provider. I've
submitted an enhancement request, linked below.

https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3685

Thanks for your consideration.