Rainer Duffner wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb:
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.
Indeed. But the problem is: this is a CentOS list and I'm afraid people just don't want to hear an answer that involves installing a different OS. Just like Windoze users don't want to hear about other OSs ;-)
Even if there are no Centos solutions besides roll your own? Too bad. I am all for use the right tool for the job. The brand of the tool does not really matter.
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?
CentOS inherits RedHat's implementation (don't know the details). We use the iSCSI-initiator only, though, but that parts seems to work OK for what we use it for.
However, the OP is looking for a iscsi-target...which, if I am not wrong, does not quite exist yet in Centos/RHEL.