How to get openQRM working with a SAN

You can mount a SAN from your nodes as you would with any other system, however at this time you cannot have the root partition mounted from a SAN.

openQRM provides iSCSI & AoE (ATAoverEthernet)-Support. If your SAN supports this, you can mount the root partition through iSCSI.

Another option is to mount your SAN from the openQRM-Server and then re-export the file-system through ATAoverEthernet, iSCSI oder even NFS, and use this as an image repository.

This is an eloquant way to give your nodes access to a SAN without buying expensive FC/iSCSI-SAN-Adapters.

On the other hand - lets build a SAN yourself. Linux has everything on Board to set up a flexible and high-performant Storage-Server providing iSCSI and AoE-Support.

A Tutorial how to setup such a storage Server on Debian can be found….