Questions tagged [iscsi]

The Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) is a transport protocol designed to communicate SCSI commands over IP networks. It is described by Internet RFC 3720, though it has been amended and corrected by later RFCs.

The Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) is a transport protocol designed to communicate SCSI commands over IP networks. It is described by Internet RFC 3720 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3720), though it has been amended and corrected by later RFCs.

RFC 3720

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Need help in usage of Login volume with iscsi

Need a command line argument to login the volume with persistent login i tried with follwing command. but not working. iscsicli persistentlogintarget iqn.2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:mg-test:51:volume " T * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 0" Please…
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Puppet configuring iSCSI with multipath

I'm setting up some iSCSI storage (Lenovo) along with 3 physical servers running RHEL7. Each server has 2 NICs for the main network (bonded) and 2 NICs for the iSCSI network. The Lenovo storage has 4 ports connected to 2 physical switches. The…
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iSCSI connection always alive, without the need of login

Is there a way to keep the iSCSI connection alive for always. For example in case of a connection error which results in a logout of the session, when the connectivity is restored, it does not have to go through all the steps of the iSCSI login like…
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Does anyone uses OpenFiler in production?

Does anyone use OpenFiler (http://openfiler.com/) as an iSCSI target in production (especially in a hosting environment)? If yes then on what hardware configuration and what problems occured during usage? Thanks
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Slow I/O on VM hosts

I am currently debugging guests of a host of mine that is suffering from high latency but acceptable read/write speeds on CentOS 6. This VM is connected to a VM host which has its storage on a SAN that I am reading/writing to. 7K/10K RPM HDDs. Here…
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Why lost + found directory inside OpenEBS volume?

Every time when I create a new OpenEBS volume, and mounting the same on the host/application there is a lost+found directory created. Is there some way to avoid this and what is need of this?
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Proxmox LVM on ISCSI resize

I have a cluster of 5 nodes running Proxmox PVE 5.1. I had configured a ISCSI storage connected to a SAN and several LVM mapped to LUNs. I resized one of these LUNs, but the LVM is still the old size. Can I make a pvresize to extend the LVM without…
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Get a disk identifier for iscsi device from SL API

I am trying to obtain an identifier for a iscsi disk I have provisioned using SL API. What is the best approach to do this? I can use the device name (as seen from the SL Portal) or wwn (600*) or even iqn. I just need a method to get this identifier…
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kubernetes create pod with iscsi volume

I'm new to K8s and now i'm stuck with create a pod with iscsi volume I'm using openfiler as iscsi target, provide a LUN to K8s host nodes. I can see the disk through "multipath -l": mpatha (14f504e46494c455265305742724d2d7949544e2d736c4744) dm-3…
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when I write data in Initiator,why there exists read requests?

Initiator using open-iscsi in linux. when I launch a write request, the target gets a series of read requests and then a write request. why these requests exists? I found these requests seem to be consistent with the request when the Initiator…
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Install openiscsi initiator on kubelet

I have created a 3 node azure kubernetes cluster using the following commands az group create --name ResourceGroup --location canadacentral az provider register -n Microsoft.ContainerService az provider register -n Microsoft.Compute az provider…
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Creating zfs zpool on initiated iSCSI disk on FreeBSD

I have properly connected an iSCSI target to my FreeBSD host using iscsictl. This new device shows up as da7. The disk shows up with: geom disk list as Geom name: da7 Providers: 1. Name: da7 Mediasize: 4294967296000 (3.9T) Sectorsize: 512 …
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Instructions for mounting multiple iSCSI volumes on Softlayer VSI CentOS 6

I've got a grasp on mounting a single iSCSI "endurance" block storage volume, on a Softlayer VSI, under Linux, CentOS 6... however, wondering if there are instructions available for being able to mount multiple, different volumes of the same type,…
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API Access to setting up Endurance Storage/iSCSI snapshots and schedules?

Is there a way through either the IBM Cloud API, or the Softlayer API, to programmatically run/schedule/setup snapshots on an endurance storage device? aka iSCSI drive. I've looked through the documentation, but have not found anything.
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How to get volume name from Iscsi target?

I am trying to get volume name from Iscsi target. But i can get only nodeaddress. Get-IscsiTarget | select NodeAddress NodeAddress is having volume name plus some unique identification strings. Is it possible to get the volume name alone from IScsi…
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