Deciding whether to use the iSCSI Configuration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Express Guide
This guide describes how to quickly set up the iSCSI service on a storage virtual machine (SVM), provision a LUN, and make the LUN available using an iSCSI initiator on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server.
This guide is based on the following assumptions:
- You want to use best practices, not explore every available option.
- You do not want to read a lot of conceptual background.
You are using the iSCSI software initiator on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux host running a supported version of RHEL Series 6.7 or higher.
Your network uses IPv4 addressing.
You want to assign addresses to logical interfaces using any of the following methods:
Automatically, from a subnet you define
Manually, using an address selected from an existing subnet
Manually, using an address that will be added to an existing subnet
You are not configuring iSCSI SAN boot.
If these assumptions are not correct for your situation, you should see the following resource: