Centralized Secure Storage (iSCSI) – “Initiator Client” Setup on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora – Part 3

iSCSI Initiator are the clients which use to authenticated with iSCSI target servers to access the LUNs shared from target server. We can deploy any kind of Operating systems in those locally mounted Disks, just a single package need to be install to get authenticate with target server.

Client Initiator Setup

Features

1. Can handle any kind of file systems in locally mounted Disk.
2. No need of restating the system after partition using fdisk.

Requirements

1. Create Centralized Secure Storage using iSCSI Target – Part 1
2. Create LUN’s using LVM in Target Server – Part 2

My Client Setup for Initiator

1. Operating System – CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
2. iSCSI Target IP – 192.168.0.50
3. Ports Used : TCP 3260

Warning: Never stop the service while LUNs Mounted in Client machines (Initiator).

Initiator Client Setup

1. In Client side, we need to install the package ‘iSCSI-initiator-utils‘, search for the package using following command.

# yum search iscsi

Sample Output

============================= N/S Matched: iscsi ================================
iscsi-initiator-utils.x86_64 : iSCSI daemon and utility programs
iscsi-initiator-utils-devel.x86_64 : Development files for iscsi-initiator-utils

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