Hi all, I would like to know if I could share some space on on of my servers, to another server(s) using the iSCSI protocal? I can see that CentOS can connect to an iSCSI server, but can it act as a iSCSI server? Is so, does anyone have some good HOWTO / tutorials / docs on how to set it up? I'm running CentOS 5.2 -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers
Rudi Ahlers wrote:> Hi all, > > I would like to know if I could share some space on on of my servers, > to another server(s) using the iSCSI protocal? I can see that CentOS > can connect to an iSCSI server, but can it act as a iSCSI server? > > Is so, does anyone have some good HOWTO / tutorials / docs on how to set it up? > > I'm running CentOS 5.2 >Yes you can , but actually it's still 'techonology preview' as stated in the Upstream Release Notes ... You'll need to install the package scsi-target-utils and configure everything with the tgtadm command : there is no config file that is read by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/tgtd initscripts so you have to write a bash scripts that will be read on startup to do the whole work. If you have already played with iscsi, using tgtadm is not really difficult but i admit also that i'm only using it for tests in labs. Production machines are using FC HBAs ;-) -- - Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."
See my presentation at http://www.colug.net/notes/0810mtg/ On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote:> Hi all, > > I would like to know if I could share some space on on of my servers, > to another server(s) using the iSCSI protocal? I can see that CentOS > can connect to an iSCSI server, but can it act as a iSCSI server? > > Is so, does anyone have some good HOWTO / tutorials / docs on how to set it up? > > I'm running CentOS 5.2 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Nov 16, 2008, at 7:21 AM, "Rudi Ahlers" <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I would like to know if I could share some space on on of my servers, > to another server(s) using the iSCSI protocal? I can see that CentOS > can connect to an iSCSI server, but can it act as a iSCSI server? > > Is so, does anyone have some good HOWTO / tutorials / docs on how to > set it up? > > I'm running CentOS 5.2There is also the iSCSI Enterprise Target besides the technology preview of 'tgt' which is more then just iSCSI, but a generic SCSI target that can also do FC and FCoE. IET has a kernel device device driver though that will need to be maintained through kernel updates, but works extremely well. -Ross