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Recently I had an Oracle database server used by some developers that was running out of space on its data volume mounted at /u02. The volume was a simple MBR volume (think fdisk), so it couldn’t be non-destructively extended without using a third-party utility like gparted. That would have been fine, but rather than leave the volume as MBR, I decided to create a new iSCSI SAN-backed Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volume, which can be extended and resized pretty easily.

In this post, I’ll show you how to create a logical volume stored on an iSCSI SAN. Even though I did this on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (RHEL), these steps should work on any distribution of Linux.

If you’re familiar with networking you know that when a device is directly connected to two separate IP networks, traffic destined for one of those networks should egress on the interface that is directly connected to that network. For example, if your storage appliance is directly connected to the 172.16.1.0/24 network, and you want to send a packet to a device with the IP of 172.16.1.55, traffic should egress on the interface connected to that network.