Cheap iSCSI Target Built
November 3rd, 2006 by Lou
I’ve taken an old Dell machine and made an iSCSI storage target from it. I added a firewire card so I could easily add drives. It’s using Ubuntu Linux 6.10 and the iSCSI Enterprise Target iSCSI target implementation. Instructions from the Ubuntu forum were good, I needed to add “sudo” in front of some of the commands since I wasn’t root. In particular “make install” almost always must be done are root, and I didn’t try to do this as a regular user. I didn’t need to install “dapper” and I’m not sure what that is, nor could I find it. I’m not a Ubuntu expert.
I got one strange looking error starting and manipulating the service, “Starting iSCSI enterprise target service: [: 142: ==: unexpected operator”. I changed the shebang on “/etc/init.d/scsi-target” from #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash and cleared that up I think.
In order to get the storage to work with VMware I needed to create a VMkernel network connection.
The whole thing isn’t going to beat any speed records, but I’ve got VMware iSCSI storage now.
iSCSI, ubuntu, vmware
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