I was interested in ZFS over iSCSI<\/a>. However, I temporarily gave up on this cause for some reason… you have to allow root access to the FreeNAS box over SSH, on the same network that the iSCSI is for….<\/p>\n “First of all we need to setup SSH keys to the freenas box, the SSH connection needs to be on the same subnet as the iSCSI Portal, so if you are like me and have a separate VLAN and subnet for iSCSI the SSH connection needs to be established to the iSCSI Portal IP and not to the LAN\/Management IP on the FreeNAS box.<\/a> Also mentioned in this guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n This was further verified when I attempted to setup ZFS on an iSCSI disk, I go this error message:<\/p>\n Since I didn’t want to configure my NAS to have root access over SSH, on the iSCSI network. I was still curious then what the point of iSCSI was for PVE if you can’t use a drive shared… Reviewing the chart above, and this comment “i guess the best way to do it, is to create a iscsi storage via the gui and then an lvm storage also via the gui (if you want to use lvm to manage the disks) or directly use the luns (they have to be managed on the storage server side)<\/a>”<\/p>\n I ended up using LVM on the disk “3: It is possible to use LVM on top of an iSCSI or FC-based storage. That way you get a shared LVM storage”<\/p>\n However, using this model you can’t use snapshots. \ud83d\ude41 Table of Contents<\/p>\n<\/div>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/EkcZN2Q.png\")
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\nThe SSH connection is only used to list the ZFS pools”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NLnFbLp.png\")
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\nYou can use LVM-Thin but that’s not shared.<\/p>\n<\/span>Step 1) Setup Storage Server<\/span><\/h2>