Dapper 6.06 ISCSI target HOW TO

[iduriduridur]

This is for a clean install, since ISCSI is a task intensive process. It will use ISCSI enterprise target software from

http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/

version iscsitarget-0.4.13.tar.gz. download it to your desktop.
unarchive it to a folder on your desktop.

You will need 2 disk drives, say /dev/hda for ubuntu OS

and /dev/sda for iscsi data

first install dapper
then login and update the normal Software updates way.

reboot because of the kernel update.

go to synaptic and install

make
libssl-dev
linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386 - do a uname -r to make sure what you are running.
gcc

install

then get a terminal window up and do sudo su to be root.
type:
ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386 /usr/src/linux

cd to your desktop iscsi folder you created previously from unarchiving
Example:
cd /home/user/Desktop/iscsi

make KERNELSRC=/usr/src/linux

then I had to type:

make KERNELSRC=/usr/src/linux install

Not exactly sure why i needed to do the make part 2x but it works

cp /home/user/Desktop/iscsi/etc/ietd.conf /etc

It is now installed. But we need to setup the ietd.conf file

vi /etc/ietd.conf

go to the line that says Lun 0 Path=

edit it to point to your iSCSI disk.

Lun 0 Path=/dev/sda

save

/etc/init.d/iscsi-target start

It should say:

Starting iSCSI enterprise target service: succeeded.

Now get the IP address of your box, install MS iscsi initiator free download and test away.

I have an athlon 64 3000+ and 2 gb ram IDE disks, 1 Gig Ethernet with a crossover cable , jumbo frames set on both NICS to an XP box same specs and got 30-40 MBps on IDE and on a unbuntu ram disk i got 70MBps max. It seems on a 1 Gig ethernet the network is the limiting factor.

Now i need to buy 4 PCI express gig nics from Dlink and bond them together to see what i can get.

I have tested this in a VMWARE server session and it works but it is slow since it is a vm and no jumbo Frames as far as i can tell.