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Configure iSCSI Initiator2014/07/14

 
Configure iSCSI Initiator.
This example is based on the environment below.
+----------------------+          |          +----------------------+
| [   iSCSI Target   ] |10.0.0.30 | 10.0.0.31| [ iSCSI Initiator  ] |
|     dlp.srv.world    +----------+----------+     www.srv.world    |
|                      |                     |                      |
+----------------------+                     +----------------------+

[1] Configure iSCSI Initiator.
[root@www ~]#
yum -y install iscsi-initiator-utils
[root@www ~]#
vi /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi
# change to the same IQN you set on the iSCSI target server

InitiatorName=
iqn.2014-07.world.srv:www.srv.world
[root@www ~]#
vi /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf
# line 57: uncomment

node.session.auth.authmethod = CHAP
# line 61,62: uncomment and specify the username and password you set on the iSCSI target server

node.session.auth.username =
username

node.session.auth.password =
password
# discover target

[root@www ~]#
iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 10.0.0.30

[  635.510656] iscsi: registered transport (tcp)
10.0.0.30:3260,1 iqn.2014-07.world.srv:storage.target00

# confirm status after discovery

[root@www ~]#
iscsiadm -m node -o show

# BEGIN RECORD 6.2.0.873-21
node.name = iqn.2014-07.world.srv:storage.target00
node.tpgt = 1
node.startup = automatic
node.leading_login = No
...
...
...
node.conn[0].iscsi.IFMarker = No
node.conn[0].iscsi.OFMarker = No
# END RECORD

# login to the target

[root@www ~]#
iscsiadm -m node --login

Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.2014-07.world.srv:storage.target00, portal: 10.0.0.30,3260] (multiple)
[  708.383308] scsi2 : iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP
[  709.393277] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     LIO-ORG  disk01           4.0  PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[  709.395709] scsi 2:0:0:0: alua: supports implicit and explicit TPGS
[  709.398155] scsi 2:0:0:0: alua: port group 00 rel port 01
[  709.399762] scsi 2:0:0:0: alua: port group 00 state A non-preferred supports TOlUSNA
[  709.401763] scsi 2:0:0:0: alua: Attached
[  709.402910] scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2014-07.world.srv:storage.target00, portal: 10.0.0.30,3260] successful.

# confirm the established session

[root@www ~]#
iscsiadm -m session -o show

tcp: [1] 10.0.0.30:3260,1 iqn.2014-07.world.srv:storage.target00 (non-flash)
# confirm the partitions

[root@www ~]#
cat /proc/partitions

major minor  #blocks  name

 252        0   52428800 sda
 252        1     512000 sda1
 252        2   51915776 sda2
 253        0    4079616 dm-0
 253        1   47833088 dm-1
   8        0   20971520 sdb
# added new device provided from the target server as "sdb"
[2] After setting iSCSI device, configure on Initiator to use it like follows.
# create label

[root@www ~]#
parted --script /dev/sdb "mklabel msdos"

# create partition

[root@www ~]#
parted --script /dev/sdb "mkpart primary 0% 100%"

# format with XFS

[root@www ~]#
mkfs.xfs -i size=1024 -s size=4096 /dev/sdb1

meta-data=/dev/sdb1        isize=1024   agcount=16, agsize=327616 blks
         =                 sectsz=4096  attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                 crc=0
data     =                 bsize=4096   blocks=5241856, imaxpct=25
         =                 sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2        bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=0
log      =internal log     bsize=4096   blocks=2560, version=2
         =                 sectsz=4096  sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none             extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0

# mount it

[root@www ~]#
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

[ 6894.010661] XFS (sdb1): Mounting Filesystem
[ 6894.031358] XFS (sdb1): Ending clean mount
[root@www ~]#
df -hT

Filesystem              Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/centos-root xfs        46G 1023M   45G   3% /
devtmpfs                devtmpfs  1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                   tmpfs     1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   tmpfs     1.9G  8.3M  1.9G   1% /run
tmpfs                   tmpfs     1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1               xfs       497M  120M  378M  25% /boot
/dev/sdb1               xfs        20G   33M   20G   1% /mnt
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