In some configurations it may be desirable to extend the storage space of your DME. This can be done in the following ways: (1) add a new virtual disk to a VM, (2) add a new physical disk to a medium or large DME (small DMEs do not have the capability of adding additional space), or (3) add a network storage device. For options 1 and 2, please see Disk Status.

This topic supports connecting a networked iSCSI device to the DME. Adding this device is different than adding additional virtual or physical disks – which extends the content storage location.

Adding an iSCSI actually mounts the an iSCSI device to a virtual folder name (directory location within the DME FTP root). Access to that directory is available through FTP and customers can store content there. Rev, however, only stores content within the UploadedVideos directory within the FTP root. Therefore, if you want to extend the storage space for Rev, you must mount to the UploadedVideos directory (Virtual Folder Name). This has the effect of making the original UploadedVideos directory (and any content) inaccessible while the iSCSI is mounted on UploadedVideos. Of course, the goal would be to mount a much larger iSCSI device that would provide all the necessary VOD storage.

Unlike the addition of new disks or virtual disks to VMs, iSCSI devices can be mounted and unmounted accordingly. Removing them will remove all the associated VOD content.

In older versions of the DME, it was possible to provision iSCSI devices (once connected via this page) on the Disk Status page. This is not recommended because it requires the iSCSI device to always be present for the DME. Current recommendations is to create a singleton iSCSI device with sufficient storage and mount that as UploadedVideos.