Configuring iSCSI Volume in Ubuntu/Linux
The other day i got Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Series SAN box to experiment on. For windows it was pretty straight forward using the iSCSI tool present in administrative tools. I wanted to try it on Linux so i searched a bit and at last formatted & mounted it on Ubuntu. Here are the steps that i followed. Follow the steps to configure iSCSI volume on ubuntu (i tried on 11.10): 1) You need to install open-iscsi package : #sudo apt-get install open-iscsi 2) Now you need to run discovery agains t the iscsi host: # iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p <iscsi server ip address> eg: If 192.168.11.110 is the ip address of iscsi server # iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.1.110 OR # iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 192.168.11.110 3) Note down the record id (such as iqn.xxxxxxxxxx...