Re: iSCSI virtualization

[Yaron Klein <klein@sanrad.com>]

Will be done soon,

Yaron

John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM wrote:

> iSCSI Team,
> With my TC Hat on:
>
> The proposal, by Yarom, regarding virtualization has had some interesting
> responses that have moved from support of the general idea to some
> skepticism, to many folks wanting to delay the consideration to after the
> main projects have been addressed.
> Here are extracts of some of the messages (from earliest to latest and
> excluding my own) :
>
> I like the idea but am not so sure about the solution.(J.S)
> I like  the basic idea of farming out the data transfer traffic to the real
> devices. .... however, ...(C.M.)
> I would suggest that this is an issue for T10.(J.H.)
> How would discovery work in this scenario? (What would who "find"?)(D.D.)
> This virtualization would make this more generally applicable,(M.B.)
> The feature is very useful if it works transparently, within the framework
> of existing device semantics and commands.(C.M.)
> But at closer examination the case becomes weaker...(J.S.)
> In my opinion,it's not [a T10 issue]. In any event, I vote for taking this
> off the table.(C.M.)
> I entirely agree that this is premature (Private)
> I think this is an implementation issue (S.G.)
> Let us keep it out of the iSCSI protocol for now. Maybe someday (S.G.)
> Actually, the matter is T10 and T10 only. (R.S.)
>
> I believe that the following is a fair statement of rough consensus:
>
> 1. The proposal, for virtualization, may have some merit.
> 2. We should take it off the iSCSI table (at least for now)
>
> Therefore, based on the above, I am asking Yarom to create a Draft, which
> can be fully debated, and submit it after the basic iSCSI protocol and
> related projects are completed.
>
> Hat off:
>
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> John L. Hufferd
> Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
> IBM/SSG San Jose Ca
> (408) 256-0403, Tie: 276-0403
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