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December 6, 2010 at 07:22 AM
msarro

iSCSI basics

by msarro . Updated 15 years, 7 months ago

Hey everyone. I’m working on a storage solution and to be honest its looking like iSCSI is the best way to implement it. I’ve only ever used fibre channel. How does iSCSI handle multiple hosts trying to access the same file? For instance we have a redundant server pair, and if the first server dies and doesn’t close the connection cleanly, can the second immediately begin writing to the same file?

If a SAN (in this case an HP P2000 g3) has numerous controllers, does it use a single virtual IP as the host IP for the initiators?

I’m just unfamiliar with iSCSI, so hopefully these are simple questions.

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