On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 6:04 PM Frank de Bot (lists) <li...@searchy.net>
wrote:

> I've crossposted the problem to the freebsd-stable mailinglist. There is
> no ALUA support at the initiator side. There were 2 options for
> multipathing:
>
> 1. Export your LUNs via two (or more) different paths (for example
>    via two different target portal IP addresses), on the initiator
>    side set up both iSCSI sessions in the usual way (like without
>    multipathing), add kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection=1 to
>    /etc/sysctl.conf, and set up gmultipath on top of LUNs reachable
>    via those sessions
>
> 2. Set up the target so it redirects (sends "Target moved temporarily"
>    login responses) to the target portal it considers active.  Then
>    set up the initiator (single session) to either one; the target
>    will "bounce it" to the right place.  You don't need gmultipath
>    in this case, because from the initiator point of view there's only
>    one iSCSI session at any time.
>
> Would an of those 2 options be possible on the ceph iscsi gateway
> solution to configure?
>

We probably don't have the (development) bandwidth to implement a custom
solution for FreeBSD. You should be able to just use targetcli to configure
a one-node target using RBD as a backend, however.


>
> Regards,
>
> Frank
>
> Jason Dillaman wrote:
> > Conceptually, I would assume it should just work if configured correctly
> > w/ multipath (to properly configure the ALUA settings on the LUNs). I
> > don't run FreeBSD, but any particular issue you are seeing?
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 6:06 PM Frank de Bot (lists) <li...@searchy.net
> > <mailto:li...@searchy.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     In my test setup I have a ceph iscsi gateway (configured as in
> >     http://docs.ceph.com/docs/luminous/rbd/iscsi-overview/ )
> >
> >     I would like to use thie with a FreeBSD (11.1) initiator, but I fail
> to
> >     make a working setup in FreeBSD. Is it known if the FreeBSD initiator
> >     (with gmultipath) can work with this gateway setup?
> >
> >
> >     Regards,
> >
> >     Frank
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> >
> > --
> > Jason
>
>

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Jason
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