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 ;-) > 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. Rainer