1 [[storage_iscsidirect]]
2 User Mode iSCSI Backend
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6 :title: Storage: User Mode iSCSI
9 Storage pool type: `iscsidirect`
11 This backend provides basically the same functionality as the Open-iSCSI backed,
12 but uses a user-level library to implement it. You need to install the
13 `libiscsi-bin` package in order to use this backend.
15 It should be noted that there are no kernel drivers involved, so this
16 can be viewed as performance optimization. But this comes with the
17 drawback that you cannot use LVM on top of such iSCSI LUN. So you need
18 to manage all space allocations at the storage server side.
23 The user mode iSCSI backend uses the same configuration options as the
26 .Configuration Example (`/etc/pve/storage.cfg`)
28 iscsidirect: faststore
30 target iqn.2006-01.openfiler.com:tsn.dcb5aaaddd
36 NOTE: This backend works with VMs only. Containers cannot use this
39 .Storage features for backend `iscsidirect`
40 [width="100%",cols="m,m,3*d",options="header"]
41 |==============================================================================
42 |Content types |Image formats |Shared |Snapshots |Clones
43 |images |raw |yes |no |no
44 |==============================================================================
51 * link:/wiki/Storage[Storage]