I always used IET on CentOS but I have a quick server to setup to backup some VM's, then migrate to DAS on another server and the easiest way for me will be to accomplish this via iSCSI vmfs stores. I figured I would just use the ini that ships with CentOS but have never used it against ESX, anyone do this and have experiences they care to share? Should it be trivial or are there any non standard configs that need to be used? Thanks! jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:> I always used IET on CentOS but I have a quick server to setup to backup > some VM's, then migrate to DAS > on another server and the easiest way for me will be to accomplish this via > iSCSI vmfs stores. I figured I would > just use the ini that ships with CentOS but have never used it against ESX, > anyone do this and have experiences > they care to share? Should it be trivial or are there any non standard > configs that need to be used?Are you talking about using CentOS as an iSCSI server and having ESX talk to it via iSCSI client? Or are you talking about running CentOS inside ESX and using an iSCSI client from within the guest VM? I have done the latter, and have used OpenFiler as an iSCSI server for ESX's iSCSI client, and both worked fine no special options needed. nate
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Joseph L. Casale < JCasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:> I always used IET on CentOS but I have a quick server to setup to backup > some VM's, then migrate to DAS > on another server and the easiest way for me will be to accomplish this via > iSCSI vmfs stores. I figured I would > just use the ini that ships with CentOS but have never used it against ESX, > anyone do this and have experiences > they care to share? Should it be trivial or are there any non standard > configs that need to be used? > > Thanks! > jlc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >I have CentOS v5.2 running as an iSCSI target server and multiple ESXi servers as the initiator with VMFS. This works great! The tgt daemon that comes with CentOS is simple to support as long as you know how to use tgtadm to setup the targets. I modified the tgtd init script to allow me to use config files. I did not use CHAP since this was a private network. I just locked it down by IP range. ESX had no problems connecting too and mounting the iSCSI targets. ---- Jason Cox -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080930/0f2deaf2/attachment-0001.html>
>I have CentOS v5.2 running as an iSCSI target server and multiple ESXi servers as the initiator with VMFS. This works great! The tgt daemon that comes with CentOS is simple to support as long as you >know how to use tgtadm to setup the targets. I modified the tgtd init script to allow me to use config files. I did not use CHAP since this was a private network. I just locked it down by IP range. ESX >had no problems connecting too and mounting the iSCSI targets. >---- >Jason CoxGreat, I guess I had better read up on how to create targets, I just assumed it would be like iet and use text files. What was your mod for the init script? jlc