iscsi initiator configuration steps in Linux -- Tutorial

iscsi initiator configuration steps:



Download the iscsi-utils rpm.

Using winscp tool , copy the downloaded iscsi-utils rpm to the remote Linux server.

Login to the remote Linux server and check the rpm was copied.

Now it was successfully copied to a remote server.

Now we need to install the iscsi-utils rpm using rpm -ivh command.

And also check rpm -qa | grep iscsi, whether it is installed.

The daemon is used for this iscsi located in /etc/init.d/iscsi

Check the status of the daemon using /etc/init.d/iscsi status

If it is not running, start using the following command.

/etc/init.d/iscsi start

/etc/iscsi/iscsi-name file contains the iqn value of the initiator.

Check the fdisk -l to list the available disks and partitions.
We have only /dev/sda alone.

For the iscsi storage server, we are using starwind iscsi storage server.

We have create a 1GB LUN .

Now in the remote linux server, discover the iscsi targets with the following command.

iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p <ipaddress>

Then you have to restart the iscsi service.

Now you can able to get a new disk from the iscsi server.

Now if you check with fdsik -l command, you can see the new disk which doesn't have the valid partition.

Even you can check the with the location and the following file have the scsi id information.

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Now you go the partitioning the new disk with the following command 

fdisk /dev/sdc

Once the partition got created, then you need to create a file system on the device.

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdc1

Once the file system created you have to mount the file system in one mount point.

mkdir /storage_san

mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1  /storage_san

check with mount command.

Check with disk free command also. Now you have 1GB space is available.

Now you can able to create a new files and directories.

All the Best ..............