On 07/21/2009 02:33 PM, Nate wrote:
> I am relatively new to linux, so parden my ignorance.
>
> I have installed ISCSI on my Centos box and having some issues with
> getting ISCSI to connect\mount the drive at boot.
>
> I have issued the /etc/init.d/iscsi status after a reboot and see that
> the ISCSI is up and running --> iscsid (pid 3557 3556) is running.
> The following has already been done:
>
> iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets –p 10.10.1.4:3260(ip changed
> for the post to protect the innocent)
>
>
> However the drive is not mounted, so I set the login attemps using the
> following command:
> vi /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf
> and set the
> node.session.initial_login_retry_max = 60
> Upon issuing the reboot command on the server the serve comes up and I
> do not see the ISCSI volumes.
>
> I did some more research and found this article:
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html
>
> Step 4. Say to enable ISCSI on startup by issuing the followoing
> command
> chkconfig iscsi on
> This has been done...& restarted and same issue
>
> Then I looked at the fstab so I edited fstab file (vi /etc/fstab)
> and added the following line: (came from URL above in step 4)
>
> /dev/sdd1 /mnt/iscsi ext3
If you have multiple targets or if the target has multiple portals or if
the target does a target for each lun (so you get multiple targets for
each lun), then the initiator will setup each target, portal and lun in
parallel. This results in the /dev/sdX naming not being persistent
between reboots. You want to use udev names (/dev/disk/ or labels).
> _netdev 0 0
>
> However I think this may be wrong as when I issue the fdisk -l command
> I see a different device
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 541.6 GB, 541693575168 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 65857 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> Disk /dev/sdf: 108.9 GB, 108998688768 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13251 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>
> The other issue is the drives show up 4x each = 8 drives, and should
> only be two.
> Any assistance would be greatly appricieated.
>
When you run
iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets –p 10.10.1.4
What output did you get. Do you see multiple targets or portals? If so
then we are going to set them up in parallel and the /dev/sd names could
be differnt for each reboot.
After the iscsi service has started, you can run
iscsiadm -m session -P 3
to see all the running sessions and what /dev/sdXs we got and what
portal they are being accessed from (you should use the /dev/disk/
naming for something like fstab though).
And you probably see multple /dev/sdXs because each path gets one. So if
you have one lun and the target has two ports you would get two /dev/sdX
entries. One for each path.
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