Steven Raith wrote: > Hi all, > > hopefully this will be a very, very straightforward problem. > > I'm trying to set up OpenSolaris 2008.11 to be an iSCSI SAN box/target for my > VMWare ESX server so I can > A: get more datastore space > B: prove to management than giving me lots of money to buy some real servers, > a couple of SANs and upgarding the network backbone to something from the > 21st Century. > > So, I have installed smtf from the package manager, disabled iscsitgt in the > terminal, but when I try to enable iscsit with > > svcadm enable -r svc:/network/iscsi/target:default > > All I get back in return is: > > svcadm: Pattern 'svc:/network/iscsi/target:default' doesn't match any > instances. > > So I'm guessing I have made a mess of something. There is no note that my > skim-reading could find in the OpenSolaris COMSTAR Administration Guide to > the iscsit service needing to be installed seperately - although admittadly > that does seem to refer to the SXCE rather than OS 2008.11 - but > fundamentally it should be similar enough, yes? >
Hi Steven, Unfortunately COMSTAR iSCSI is not part of 2008.11 but it will be in 2009.04. Until 2009.04 ships you have the following options: 1. In a few weeks you will likely be able to use pkg image-update to install a build 103-based version of OpenSolaris 2. Download the build 103 version of SXCE when it is available 3. Build a 103 or later ON workspace and BFU. You could also install the iSER evaluation packages from the iSER project page (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/iser/) but those are really intended to be installed on a build 103-based system -- installing them on an older build would *probably* work but I wouldn't recommend it. -Peter > I have found out where the serice XML maps are [/var/svc/manifest/system] but > there isn't one for iscsit in there. > > I'm fairly familiar with Linux, but quite, quite new to Solaris and it's > quibbles [such as automagic network setup freaking out on Dell GX620 hardware > - I'm toying with this in Virtualbox before setting up a physical machine > with it] so be gentle with me, but you don't need to treat me with too much > in the way of kid gloves :-) > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
