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5 remote boot, 1 iscsi boot, 1 rhel6.4/rhel6.5 – Dell Mellanox Family of Adapters User Manual

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User Manual for Mellanox ConnectX®-3 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters for Dell PowerEdge Servers

Rev 1.1

Mellanox Technologies

65

5

Remote Boot

5.1

iSCSI Boot

5.1.1

RHEL6.4/RHEL6.5

5.1.1.1 Configuring the iSCSI Target Machine

To configure the iSCSI target:

Step 1.

Download the IET target software from.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/iscsitarget/files/iscsitarget/1.4.20.2/

Step 2.

Install iSCSI target and additional required software on target server.

Step 3.

Create the IQN in the ietd configuration file.

[root@sqa030 ~]# yum install kernel-devel openssl-devel gcc rpm-build

[root@sqa030 tmp]# tar xzvf iscsitarget-1.4.20.2.tar.gz

[root@sqa030 tmp]# cd iscsitarget-1.4.20.2/

[root@sqa030 iscsitarget-1.4.20.2]# make && make install

Target iqn.2013-10.qalab.com:sqa030.prt9

Lun 0 Path=/dev/cciss/c0d0p9,Type=fileio,IOMode=wb

MaxConnections

1

# Number of connections/session. We only support 1

InitialR2T

Yes

# Wait first for R2T

ImmediateData

Yes

# Data can accompany command

MaxRecvDataSegmentLength 8192

# Max data per PDU to receive

MaxXmitDataSegmentLength 8192

# Max data per PDU to transmit

MaxBurstLength

262144

# Max data per sequence (R2T)

FirstBurstLength

65536

# Max unsolicited data sequence

DefaultTime2Wait

2

# Secs wait for ini to log out Not used

DefaultTime2Retain 20

# Secs keep cmnds after log out Not used

MaxOutstandingR2T 1

# Max outstanding R2Ts per cmnd

DataPDUInOrder

Yes

# Data in PDUs is ordered. We only support ordered

DataSequenceInOrder Yes

# PDUs in sequence are ordered. We only support

ordered

ErrorRecoveryLevel 0

# We only support level 0

HeaderDigest

NONE

# PDU header checksum algo list. None or CRC32C

# If only one is set then the initiator must agree

# to it or the connection will fail

DataDigest

NONE

# PDU data checksum algo list Same as above

MaxSessions

0

# Maximum number of sessions to this target 0 =

unlimited

NOPInterval

0

# Send a NOP-In ping each after that many seconds

if the

# conn is otherwise idle 0 = off

NOPTimeout

0

# Wait that many seconds for a response on a

NOP-In ping

# If 0 or > NOPInterval, NOPInterval is used!

# Various target parameters

Wthreads

8

# Number of IO threads

QueuedCommands

32

# Number of queued commands