A.3 Installation iSCSI Target

Before installing iSCSI Target, you must install SLES 11. While installing SLES 11, ensure that you perform the following tasks:

  • Create a separate partition (for example, /dev/sdc3) for the iSCSI shared storage partition.

    At the NetIQ Test Labs, ReiserFS showed more stability than Ext3. However, you may use any supported file system. This partition is mounted by /etc/fstab on the local machine as /shared.

  • Include the YaST2-iSCSI-server and the iSCSI target packages.

When the SLES 11 install is completed, set it up as the iSCSI server as follows:

  1. Launch YaST.

  2. Click Network Services > iSCSI Target.

  3. In the Service tab, set Service Start to When Booting.

  4. In Global, specify the required authentication details. (No authentication is used in this example.)

  5. In the Targets tab, click Add twice, and specify the partition (/dev/sdc3) in Path field, as shown in the following figure. Retain the default values for Target, Identifier, and LUN.

  6. Click Finish to restart iSCSI services.

    iSCSI shared storage is now be available to the HA nodes.