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Multiple Connections to a single ISCSI LUN?

I am wondering if I create a single large ISCSI LUN and a single corresponding ISCSI target to that LUN. Stop me here of my understanding of this is incorrect. Can I connect multiple servers to that same ISCSI target, so that they can all access that LUN (even simultaneously). Or do I need to create a new target to the LUN for every server that I want to connect?

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Damn, ok thanks for the info. It looks like I will need to create some sort of platform agnostic clustered file system "share" and somehow map them to Windows Servers as if they were locally attached.

FYI I want to do this so that I can export/import hyper-v VMs to and from (I guess a) NFS share by adding it as "local" storage at the host level. But I will make that a separate post. This is because Hyper-v Manager seems completely incapable of exporting VMs to anything other than local drives. I did get the ISCSI option to work, but of course I cannot attach another hyper-v host to it without fantastic badness occurring.

Thanks for your help :-)