[CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

Mon Sep 7 15:29:41 UTC 2009
Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Serious performance issues wrt to ZFS under iSCSI on Solaris/OpenSolaris
> at the moment which require gobs of cash to fix. See rbourbon's post from
> this thread:
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=111286&tstart=0
>
> As for iSCSI on CentOS, I use iet versus tgt as the boxed instance leaves
> lots to be done manually. Iet is actively developed by a some bright people
> and is well tested/used and stable. I can assure iet works rock solid, I have
> it exporting block devices to ESXi, nix and windows without ever missing a beat.
>   
Thanks for the update.

> Also, according to http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15154 tgt is still
> only a Technology Preview, so you wouldn't expect it to be complete yet.
>
>   
Did you install your iet from rpms or something then?