Configure iSCSI Initiator (client) in CentOS / RHEL 6 Rumi, October 30, 2018 To use RHEL/CentOS 6 system as an iSCSI initiator or client, you must have iscsi-initiator-utils package installed. You can verify that this is installed on your system using the rpm command, as shown in the following example: $ rpm -qa | grep iscsi-initiator-utils Install the package if its not already available on your system using yum. # yum install iscsi-initiator-utils Start the iscsi demaon and use chkconfig to enable it to start after reboot as well. # service iscsi start # chkconfig iscsi on Once you have installed the required package and started the service you can start discovering the available targets. To Obtain a listing of available targets from a given host (please note that ipaddress listed below must be replaced with the resolvable hostname or IP address of the system providing the port if different than default): # iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 192.168.10.10 192.168.10.10:3260,1 iqn.2010-03.com.example:tgtd Here, iqn.2010-03.com.example:tgtd – is the target_iqn_name. You can view more information on the target using the below command. # iscsiadm -m node -T [target_iqn_name] -p [target_ipaddress] The next step is to login to the discovered target. # iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2010-03.com.example:tgtd -p 192.168.10.10 -l Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.2010-03.com.example:tgtd, portal: 192.168.10.10,3260] Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2010-03.com.example:tgtd, portal: 192.168.10.10,3260]: successful You can also login into all the LUNs exported on the target by running: # iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -l The iscsi initiator has it’s own database to save the target/node information and configuration. This is located in “/var/lib/iscsi” directory. You can view the newly attached iSCSI storage using fdisk command. # fdisk -l To disconnect an existing iSCSI storage, you will have to first log out of the target. # iscsiadm -m node -T [target_iqn_name] -p [ipaddress] -u To remove the target from the iscsi database so that the iscsi does not reconnect upon reboot, delete the target after logging out of it: # iscsiadm -m node -T target_iqn_name -p ip address --op delete If you have multiple targets that you have logged into, you can log out of all targets by running: # iscsiadm -m node -U all Trouble Shooting To get target list, run: # iscsiadm -m discovery To get the node list, run: # iscsiadm -m node The iscsid daemon opens a TCP session with the target. To check the open session, run: # iscsiadm -m session or # netstat -tpan | grep iscsid You can also check for the file /sys/class/iscsi_session to find open sessions. Find which session a disk belongs to: # iscsiadm -m session The output will include active sessions and attached scsi disks. For ZTE KU Storage integraion: For ISCSI Discovery # iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 10.10.10.211:3260 # iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 10.10.10.212:3260 ( **this ip is the port IP where the optical fiber is connected) To get the iqn number from blade: (need to enter in KU5200) #yum install iscsi-initiator-utils Next command is # cat /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi Related Administrations Configurations (Linux) CentOSCentOS 6iSCSI
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