I have a question but it might as well be or become a proposition towards Open-E.
We are using a DSS208 storage appliance as a iSCSI target for some VMware hosts. Since each host now hosts around 5 virtual machines (some are testing and mock-up machines, hence the 'around' ) and we want each virtual guest to stay on its own storage volume, the number of logical volumes created is increasing rather rapidly.
For now, the volumes are still manageable by keeping a table of 'which volume contains what' and, of course, mapping each volume to a identifiable iSCSI volume helps alot. I am afraid, however, should the number of logical volumes increase further and should more than just one person start working on them, then administration becomes a burden and error-prone (you do _not_, for example, want your Exchange server to mount its own databases but fail to mount its log files volume or mixup the system volumes of two Domain Controllers!).
So ... is there a way to rename logical volumes so the names of the volumes can make sense to us human beings? Is there a CLI command I am unaware of or is there an option somewhere hidden in the GUI? If not, would it be possible, even if only through a CLI, to provide that option to (registered, i.e. commercial) DSS users?
Rename and/or label logical volumes
) and we want each virtual guest to stay on its own storage volume, the number of logical volumes created is increasing rather rapidly.
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