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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: