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[John Griffith <john.griffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Remo Mattei <remo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone I was reading the code of cinder and I want to check if
> this is correct
>
> 1 vm will get a instruction to mount the drive using the iscsi
>

It's actually more like the compute node gets the iSCSI attach, and the
local-dev is passed in to
the instance.

> 2 on the back end I can have any time of drive type net app,emc etc.
>

To a point, yes; assuming the device of interest has a driver integrated in
Cinder.

> 3 once the vm has mount the drive it goes direct
>

See points on note 1.. but yes, I think you're kinda on the right page

>
> Thanks
>
> Remo
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