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heads-up: iSCSI Target now available
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:59:20 -0600
From: Rick McNeal <Rick dot McNeal at Sun dot COM>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-all at Sun dot COM
Subject: heads-up: iSCSI Target now available
If you're not interested in being able to setup your Solaris machine to
act like a storage array delete now.
I just integrated the following into Solaris:
PSARC 2005/441 iSCSI Target
6392513 Need iSCSI Target for Solaris
which enables any machine running Solaris Nevada to act as
an storage array. With a few simple commands your Solaris host
can export block storage over SWAN.
(1) Provide a directory where the logical units will be stored.
iscsitadm modify admin -d /export/targets
Obviously if you'd like to have the LUs stored elsewhere
just supply a different directory.
(2) Create a logical unit
iscsitadm create target -z 2g sandbox
(3) Enable discovery from a host running the Solaris initiator
iscsiadm add discovery-address <your IP address>
iscsiadm modify discovery -t enable
Before the iSCSI Target daemon enables a logical unit it
must first initialize the backing store. For a 2GB LU this
can take a couple of minutes. If you've enabled an initiator
to discover the target before the LU is initialized the
initiator will wait until it receives an online event from
the target. You can run 'iscsitadm list target -v' and wait
until the Status changes from offline to online if you wish
to wait.
If you have any questions send a email message to either
Rick dot McNeal at Sun dot COM or iscsi-tgt-iteam at sun dot com which for the
time being is rick dot mcneal at sun dot com. There will be a man page
available for iscsitadm(1M) along with an additional section
to the System Administration Guide. I also maintain a web page
at http://iscsi.central and the bug category is solaris/storage_target/iscsi
--
Rick McNeal
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend
will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn ... that was fun!"
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