Configuring an SVM for iSCSI
To configure a storage virtual machine (SVM) for iSCSI, you must create LIFs for the SVM and assign the iSCSI protocol to those LIFs.
About this task
You need a minimum of one iSCSI LIF per node for each SVM serving data with the iSCSI protocol. For redundancy, you should create at least two LIFs per node.
- Enable the SVMs to listen for iSCSI traffic: vserver iscsi create -vserver vserver_name -target-alias vserver_name
- Create a LIF for the SVMs on each node to use for iSCSI: network interface create -vserver vserver_name -lif lif_name -role data -data-protocol iscsi -home-node node_name -home-port port_name -address ip_address -netmask netmask
- Verify that you set up your LIFs correctly: network interface show -vserver vserver_name
- Verify that iSCSI is up and running and the target IQN for that SVM: vserver iscsi show –vserver <vserver name>
- From your host, create iSCSI sessions to your LIFs.
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