[JDSS][DSS V7] How can I connect to a iSCSI target from Linux console?

Additional information:

• product name: JovianDSS / DSSv7
• product version: all
• build: all

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In this article, we look into connecting to a remote iSCSI target.

Contents:

• Installing open-iSCSI / iSCSI-initiator-utils

Debian based distributions:

RHEL based distributions:

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• Discovering targets

Where 192.168.234.10 is the IP address of your iSCSI host.

Now we should get a output similar to the one below:

192.168.234.10:3260,1 iqn.2020-04.iscsi:node-e88c5a8b.target0

Where 192.168.234.10:3260 is the portal IP and after the 1 the target name.

Now the target should be attached to our client. To check we can do:

We should get an output containing a similar lane like below:

[sdb] 314572800 512-byte logical blocks: (161 GB/150 GiB)

Where sdb is the name of the disk in the device manager
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• Formating the iSCSI Volume

Fdisk will allow us to format the volume.

Formatting the volume.

Mounting the volume: