RE: Iscsi: Fault tolerance

["Nate Lawson" <nate@decru.com>]

I'm guessing he means that clients are accessing a server over SMB (windows
networking) and the server accesses its drives through iSCSI.  In that case,
if the server goes down, the drives are inaccessible.

Generally, it would be a bad idea to have the clients also able to access
the drives directly via iSCSI since they would then circumvent the share
permissions the server has set up.  Better instead to have multiple SMB
servers accessing the drives and do failover at that level.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
>
> How exactly will the clients use the initiator on the server?
>
> Julo
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> "Sanjeev Bhagat (TRIPACE/Zoetermeer)" <sbhagat@tripace.com> on 31-07-2001
> 18:57:41
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> Please respond to "Sanjeev Bhagat (TRIPACE/Zoetermeer)"
>       <sbhagat@tripace.com>
>
> Hi
>
> Consider a case where the clients of a Windows NT server are accessing the
> iSCSI target with iSCSI initiator driver installed  on the Windows NT
> server
> to access a ISCSI target on NET. So all the clients on this Windows NT
> server can share the iSCSI target of this server. In case the server goes
> down , will the clients still be able to access the iSCSI Target??
>
> I hope I have put my question peoperly. In case not then please feel free
> to
> call me at +31 624685051
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>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sanjeev Bhagat
>
> Tripace Europe
>
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