Setting Up tgtd As A SAN

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Note: This is far from a comprehensive tutorial.

Setting Up tgtd As A SAN

Note that this is hosted on a machine outside of the cluster with the IP address of 10.255.0.222 and is exporting a storage device found at /dev/mmcblk0. A proper SAN device should be used in production, of course.

On the SAN server:

yum install scsi-target-utils
vim /etc/tgt/conf.d/sanlock.conf

<target iqn.2012-10.ca.alteeve:an-cluster-01.sanlock01>
	direct-store /dev/mmcblk0
	vendor_id Alteeve
</target>

systemctl start tgtd.service
systemctl status tgtd.service

tgtd.service - tgtd iSCSI target daemon
	  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tgtd.service; disabled)
	  Active: active (running) since Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:22:20 -0400; 10min ago
	 Process: 13552 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/tgtadm --op delete --mode system (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	 Process: 13548 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/tgt-admin --update ALL -c /dev/null (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	 Process: 13546 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/tgtadm --op update --mode sys --name State -v offline (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	 Process: 13622 ExecStartPost=/usr/sbin/tgtadm --op update --mode sys --name State -v ready (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	 Process: 13589 ExecStartPost=/usr/sbin/tgt-admin -e -c $TGTD_CONFIG (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	 Process: 13587 ExecStartPost=/usr/sbin/tgtadm --op update --mode sys --name State -v offline (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	Main PID: 13586 (tgtd)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/tgtd.service
		  └ 13586 /usr/sbin/tgtd -f

On the cluster nodes:

Make sure they can see the SAN;

iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 10.255.0.222

10.255.0.222:3260,1 iqn.2012-10.ca.alteeve:an-cluster-01.sanlock01

Then connect to the LUN;

iscsiadm --mode node --portal 10.255.0.222 --target iqn.2012-10.ca.alteeve:an-cluster-01.sanlock01 --login

Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.2012-10.ca.alteeve:an-cluster-01.sanlock01, portal: 10.255.0.222,3260] (multiple)
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2012-10.ca.alteeve:an-cluster-01.sanlock01, portal: 10.255.0.222,3260] successful.

Looks good. Confirm with fdisk;

fdisk -l

<snip>
Disk /dev/sdb: 125 MB, 125960192 bytes
4 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1008 cylinders, total 246016 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Done!

 

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