Chapter 9. Configuring an iSCSI initiator An iSCSI initiator forms a session to connect to the iSCSI target. By default, an iSCSI service is lazily started and the service starts after running the iscsiadm command. If root is not on an iSCSI device or there are no nodes marked with node.startup = automatic then the iSCSI service will not start until an iscsiadm command is executed that requires iscsid or the iscsi kernel modules to be started. Execute the systemctl start iscsid.service command as root to force the iscsid daemon to run and iSCSI kernel modules to load. 9.1. Creating an iSCSI initiator Create an iSCSI initiator to connect to the iSCSI target to access the storage devices on the server. Prerequisites You have an iSCSI target's hostname and IP address: If you are connecting to a storage target that the external software created, find the target's hostname and IP address from the storage administrator. If you are creating an iSCSI target, see Creating an iSCSI target . Procedure Install iscsi-initiator-utils on client machine: Check the initiator name: If the ACL was given a custom name in Creating an iSCI ACL , update the initiator name to match the ACL: Open the /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi file and modify the initiator name: Restart the iscsid service: Discover the target and log in to the target with the displayed target IQN: Replace 10.64.24.179 with the target-ip-address. You can use this procedure for any number of initiators connected to the same target if their respective initiator names are added to the ACL as described in the Creating an iSCSI ACL . Find the iSCSI disk name and create a file system on this iSCSI disk: Replace disk_name with the iSCSI disk name displayed in the /var/log/messages file. Mount the file system: Replace /mount/point with the mount point of the partition. Edit the /etc/fstab file to mount the file system automatically when the system boots: Replace disk_name with the iSCSI disk name and /mount/point with the mount point of the partition. Additional resources targetcli(8) and iscsiadm(8) man pages on your system 9.2. Setting up the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol for the initiator By using the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) , users can protect the target with a password. The initiator must be aware of this password to be able to connect to the target. Prerequisites Created iSCSI initiator. For more information, see Creating an iSCSI initiator . Set the CHAP for the target. For more information, see Setting up the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol for the target . Procedure Enable CHAP authentication in the iscsid.conf file: By default, the node.session.auth.authmethod is set to None Add target username and password in the iscsid.conf file: Start the iscsid daemon: Additional resources iscsiadm(8) man page on your system 9.3. Monitoring an iSCSI session using the iscsiadm utility You can monitor the iscsi session by using the iscsiadm utility. By default, an iSCSI service is lazily started and the service starts after running the iscsiadm command. If root is not on an iSCSI device or there are no nodes marked with node.startup = automatic then the iSCSI service will not start until an iscsiadm command is executed that requires iscsid or the iscsi kernel modules to be started. Use the systemctl start iscsid.service command as root to force the iscsid daemon to run and iSCSI kernel modules to load. Procedure Install the iscsi-initiator-utils on client machine: Find information about the running sessions: This command displays the session or device state, session ID (sid), some negotiated parameters, and the SCSI devices accessible through the session. For shorter output, for example, to display only the sid-to-node mapping, run: These commands print the list of running sessions in the following format: driver [sid] target_ip:port,target_portal_group_tag proper_target_name . Additional resources /usr/share/doc/iscsi-initiator-utils-version/README file iscsiadm(8) man page on your system 9.4. DM Multipath overrides of the device timeout The recovery_tmo sysfs option controls the timeout for a particular iSCSI device. The following options globally override the recovery_tmo values: The replacement_timeout configuration option globally overrides the recovery_tmo value for all iSCSI devices. For all iSCSI devices that are managed by DM Multipath, the fast_io_fail_tmo option in DM Multipath globally overrides the recovery_tmo value. The fast_io_fail_tmo option in DM Multipath also overrides the fast_io_fail_tmo option in Fibre Channel devices. The DM Multipath fast_io_fail_tmo option takes precedence over replacement_timeout . Red Hat does not recommend using replacement_timeout to override recovery_tmo in devices managed by DM Multipath because DM Multipath always resets recovery_tmo , when the multipathd service reloads.

Commands:
yum install iscsi-initiator-utils
cat /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi InitiatorName=iqn.2006-04.com.example:888
vi /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi InitiatorName= custom-name
systemctl restart iscsid
iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 10.64.24.179 10.64.24.179:3260,1 iqn.2006-04.example:444 iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2006-04.example:444 -l Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.2006-04.example:444, portal: 10.64.24.179,3260] (multiple) Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2006-04.example:444, portal: 10.64.24.179,3260] successful.
grep "Attached SCSI" /var/log/messages mkfs.ext4 /dev/ disk_name
mkdir /mount/point mount /dev/ disk_name /mount/point
vi /etc/fstab /dev/ disk_name /mount/point ext4 _netdev 0 0
vi /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf node.session.auth.authmethod = CHAP
node.session.auth.username = redhat node.session.auth.password = redhat_passwd
systemctl start iscsid.service
yum install iscsi-initiator-utils
iscsiadm -m session -P 3
iscsiadm -m session -P 0 or iscsiadm -m session tcp [2] 10.15.84.19:3260,2 iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.33615311 tcp [3] 10.15.85.19:3260,3 iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.33615311