Using iSCSI On Fedora 10 (Initiator And Target)

May 29, 2009, 22:34 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Falko Timme)

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"The target name must be a globally unique name, the iSCSI standard defines the "iSCSI Qualified Name" as follows: iqn.yyyy-mm.[:identifier]; yyyy-mm is the date at which the domain is valid; the identifier is freely selectable. The IncomingUser line contains a username and a password so that only the initiators (clients) that provide this username and password can log in and use the storage device; if you don't need authentication, don't specify a username and password in the IncomingUser line. In the Lun line, we must specify the full path to the storage device (e.g. /dev/VolGroup00/storage_lun1, /storage/lun1.img, /dev/sdb, etc.).

"Now we tell the target that we want to allow connections to the device iqn.2001-04.com.example:storage.lun1 from the IP address 192.168.0.100 (server1.example.com):"

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