Iscsi Storage Network
Here I am trying to explain Equallogic Lun configuration on Redhat Linux 5 version. Linux Iscsi Storage Lun Mapping is much simpler on Equallogic Storage Array. Free Open Isci tool is used as the iscsi initiator. Once installed you can use iscsiadm command to configure the Lun. Dell recommends to configure iscsi on redhat 5 or above version.
First you should create volumes on the storage group interface manager and then needs to maps those Luns to server. You need to mention either iscsi initiator name or IP address to map the Lun to the server(host). If you need any authentication you can use chap. Now you can move to Linux host for further iscsi configuration.
Show current installed redhat version and update
[[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga)
Display Architecture
[[email protected] ~]# getconf LONG_BIT
64
Check isci initiator installed or not (You need iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.742-0.6.el5 or greater)
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i iscsi
iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-10.el5
Display interfaces and IP address details
[[email protected] ~]# ifconfig -a | more
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:AB:00:E7
inet addr:172.28.*.* Bcast:172.28.12.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:838 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:196784 (192.1 KiB) TX bytes:98212 (95.9 KiB)eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:AB:00:E8
inet addr:172.28.*.* Bcast:172.28.40.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3807 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:966177 (943.5 KiB) TX bytes:359247 (350.8 KiB)eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:AB:01:00
inet addr:172.28.*.* Bcast:172.28.40.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4387 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:894415 (873.4 KiB) TX bytes:384013 (375.0 KiB)lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:660 (660.0 b) TX bytes:660 (660.0 b)
Creating the interface files for MPIO
[[email protected] ~]# iscsiadm -m iface -I eth1 -o new
New interface eth1 added [[email protected] ~]# iscsiadm -m iface -I eth2 -o new
New interface eth2 added
Updating the interface name for each port
[[email protected] ~]# iscsiadm -m iface -I eth1 -o update -n iface.net_ifacename -v eth1
eth1 updated. [[email protected] ~]# iscsiadm -m iface -I eth2 -o update -n iface.net_ifacename -v eth2
eth2 updated. [[email protected] ~]# cat /var/lib/iscsi/ifaces/eth1
# BEGIN RECORD 2.0-872
iface.iscsi_ifacename = eth1
iface.net_ifacename = eth1
iface.transport_name = tcp
# END RECORD
[[email protected] ~]# cat /var/lib/iscsi/ifaces/eth2
# BEGIN RECORD 2.0-872
iface.iscsi_ifacename = eth2
iface.net_ifacename = eth2
iface.transport_name = tcp
# END RECORD
Iscsi target Discovering using iscsiadm command
[[email protected] ~]# iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 172.28.*.*:3260
172.28.*.*:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel
172.28.*.*:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel
Logging into target ( You have option to login individually also)
[[email protected] ~]# iscsiadm -m node -l
Logging in to [iface: eth2, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel, portal: 172.28.*.*,3260] Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel, portal: 172.28.*.*,3260] Logging in to [iface: eth1, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel, portal: 172.28.*.*,3260] Login to [iface: eth2, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel, portal: 172.28.*.*,3260] successful.
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel, portal: 172.28.*.*,3260] successful.
Login to [iface: eth1, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel, portal: 172.28.*.*,3260] successful.
[[email protected] ~]#
Display scsi attached device
[[email protected] ~]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: VMware Model: Virtual disk Rev: 1.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi7 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: EQLOGIC Model: 100E-00 Rev: 5.2
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi6 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: EQLOGIC Model: 100E-00 Rev: 5.2
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[[email protected] ~]#
Below command will display Iscsi session details
[[email protected] ~]# iscsiadm -m session
tcp: [6] 172.28.*.*:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel
tcp: [7] 172.28.*.*:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-a146b2a07-57858e634784f7b0-bobrhel
[[email protected] ~]#
Display Disk details
Below command will display linux disk details that are known to kernel.
[[email protected] ~]# fdisk -lDisk /dev/sda: 5368 MB, 5368709120 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 652 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytesDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 574 4610623+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 575 652 626535 82 Linux swap / SolarisDisk /dev/dm-0: 1085 MB, 1085276160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 131 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytesDisk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sde: 1085 MB, 1085276160 bytes
34 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2074 * 512 = 1061888 bytesDisk /dev/sde doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sdf: 1085 MB, 1085276160 bytes
34 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2074 * 512 = 1061888 bytesDisk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table
[[email protected] ~]#
Checking whether Equallogic Hit installed ( I have already installed HIT Kit 1.0.0- #rpm –ivh equallogic-host-tools-1.0.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm )
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i equa
equallogic-host-tools-1.0.0-1.el5
Hit requires dkms 1.95 (Dynamic kernel module support) installed. ( I have already installed dkms - #rpm –ivh dkms-1.95.32-1.noarch.rpm )
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i dkms
dkms-1.95.32-1
Dkms module can be download from http://linux.dell.com/dkms/testing/permalink/
Restarting EHCMD service (dell multipath module )
[[email protected] ~]# /etc/init.d/ehcmd restart
Stopping ehcmd: [FAILED] Starting ehcmd: [ OK ]
Restarting Multipath deamon ( You can set alias ,uuid , device details , blacklist node in multhipath.conf file before restarting)
[[email protected] ~]# /etc/init.d/multipathd restart
Stopping multipathd daemon: [FAILED] Starting multipathd daemon: [ OK ] [[email protected] ~]#
Display multhipath details
[[email protected] ~]# multipath -ll
Bob_rhel_lun () dm-0 EQLOGIC,100E-00
[size=1.0G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][enabled] \_ 3:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 [active][ready] \_ 1:0:0:0 sdd 8:48 [active][ready] [[email protected] ~]#
Device mapper target device status
[[email protected] ~]# dmsetup ls --target=multipath
Bob_rhel_lun (253, 0)
[[email protected] ~]#
Mounting the the filesystem. I have already formated the filesystem using mkfs command (mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/Bob_rhel_lun)
[[email protected] ~]# mount /dev/mapper/Bob_rhel_lun /data
Display disk usage
[[email protected] ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 4.3G 2.7G 1.5G 66% /
tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/Bob_rhel_lun 1019M 34M 934M 4% /data
[[email protected] ~]#
For persistence on reboot , added mount point to fstab file
[[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/mapper/Bob_rhel_lun /data ext3 defaults 0 0
[[email protected] ~]#
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