1 User Mode iSCSI Backend
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3 include::attributes.txt[]
5 Storage pool type: `iscsidirect`
7 This backend provides basically the same functionality as the
8 Open-iSCSI backed, but uses a user-level library (package 'libiscsi2')
11 It should be noted that there are no kernel drivers involved, so this
12 can be viewed as performance optimization. But this comes with the
13 drawback that you cannot use LVM on top of such iSCSI LUN. So you need
14 to manage all space allocations at the storage server side.
19 The user mode iSCSI backend uses the same configuration options as the
22 .Configuration Example ('/etc/pve/storage.cfg')
24 iscsidirect: faststore
26 target iqn.2006-01.openfiler.com:tsn.dcb5aaaddd
32 NOTE: This backend works with VMs only. Containers cannot use this
35 .Storage features for backend `iscsidirect`
36 [width="100%",cols="m,m,3*d",options="header"]
37 |==============================================================================
38 |Content types |Image formats |Shared |Snapshots |Clones
39 |images |raw |yes |no |no
40 |==============================================================================
47 * link:/wiki/Storage[Storage]