[PVE-User] feature request - automatically add all iSCSI targets which were discovered

[Yacine Kheddache]

On mar, 2009-10-27 at 10:58 +0100, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-
> > bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Dietmar Maurer
> > Sent: Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 10:26
> > To: Tomasz Chmielewski
> > Cc: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> > Subject: Re: [PVE-User] feature request - automatically add all iSCSI
> > targets which were discovered
> > 
> > > > Besides, AFAIK both VMWare and XEN assumes a similar setup? Or can
> > > they effectively handle one target per guest?
> > >
> > > VMware, Xen (or Proxmox VE, for that matter) etc. just expect a block
> > > device.
> > 
> > I was talking about VMWare ESX server and Citrix Xen Server.
> 
> Btw, what I am looking for is a library to communicate with the storage directly. But so far I have not found anything usable?
> 
> - Dietmar

API are usually dedicated to each storage vendor.

But you can check SMI-S which should a good solution (already available
for EMC and some HP boxes, and soon for NexentaStor).

For NexentaStor, an open API is available:
http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_jreviews&Itemid=123

Regards,
Yacine.