iSCSI and how clients access/mount the volumes
 

We're thinking of purchasing an iSCSI device something
similar to the HP P2000 G3 to be access by RHEL 5 clients.

My understanding is that when an initiator (client) talks to the
target iSCSI server to get a connection to a LUN the initiator sees the
LUN as a raw iSCSI hard drive. So it doesn't mount it as an NFS volume.


Would I then use the tools in the client like fdisk and or mkfs.ext3
to create a file system on it so it can be mounted on the client?

Please let me know if this is correct.

Thank you
Dave Martini
LLNL

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iSCSI and how clients access/mount the volumes
 

Yes, once it is configured for iscsi, all block level tools like fdisk and
mke2fs should work just as if it was a local drive.
On Oct 22, 2010 11:55 AM, "Dave Martini" <martini1@llnl.gov> wrote:
> We're thinking of purchasing an iSCSI device something
> similar to the HP P2000 G3 to be access by RHEL 5 clients.
>
> My understanding is that when an initiator (client) talks to the
> target iSCSI server to get a connection to a LUN the initiator sees the
> LUN as a raw iSCSI hard drive. So it doesn't mount it as an NFS volume.
>
> Would I then use the tools in the client like fdisk and or mkfs.ext3
> to create a file system on it so it can be mounted on the client?
>
> Please let me know if this is correct.
>
> Thank you
> Dave Martini
> LLNL
>
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