Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS. I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN's -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532
Chan Chung Hang Christopher
2009-Sep-07 15:04 UTC
[CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?
Rudi Ahlers wrote:> Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm > trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act > as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a > decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS. > > I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo > some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to > export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN's > >Can I suggest ZFS on Solaris/OpenSolaris? Real breeze to setup. As for Linux, it has been a while but are there still two iscsi-target implementations? Has any one of them got into the mainline (Linux - not Redhat - although if Redhat will support one implementation I guess it does not really matter whether the mainline has it or not) kernel?
From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>> Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm > trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act > as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a > decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS.Google with 'centos iscsi howto' returns quite a few howtos... none of them work? JD
> Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm > trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act > as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a > decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS. > > I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo > some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to > export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN'syes, just last week i set this up. yum install scsi-target-utils chkconfig tgtd on edit /etc/tgt/targets.conf service tgtd start works from a windows client just fine.
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Rudi Ahlers wrote:> Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm > trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act > as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a > decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS. > > I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo > some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to > export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN's > >See slides, scripts here.. http://www.colug.net/notes/0810mtg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote:> I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo > some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to > export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN'sSorry for the thread necromancy here, but can you tell me what was missing from Openfiler that you'd like to use? I'm looking down this path right now and will be sending a few related questions to the list. -- ?Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV? - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"