[CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Chan Chung Hang
Christopher<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm
>> trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act
>> as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a
>> decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS.
>>
>> I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo
>> some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to
>> export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN's
>>
>>
>
>
> Can I suggest ZFS on Solaris/OpenSolaris? Real breeze to setup.
>
> As for Linux, it has been a while but are there still two iscsi-target
> implementations? Has any one of them got into the mainline (Linux - not
> Redhat - although if Redhat will support one implementation I guess it
> does not really matter whether the mainline has it or not) kernel?
> _______________________________________________


chan, I already have CentOS 5.3 setup, and we need to use this as far
as possible, due to some of the other software that we'll be using.

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