Setting up iSCSI initiator to connect to iSCSI target in Linux.

1. Install open-iscsi
   • # sudo apt-get install open-iscsi
   • # sudo apt-get install open-iscsi-utils
2. Configure the iscsid.conf file with your login credentials.
   • vi /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf

3. • edit the line 'node.session.auth.username='
   • edit the line 'node.session.auth.password='
   • enable CHAP authentication
   • uncomment the line 'node.session.auth.authmethod = CHAP'
4. Restart open-iscsi service
   • /etc/init.d/open-iscsi restart
5. Discover your iSCSI targets
   • # iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p <ip address of the iscsi target>:3260
6. List your iSCSI nodes
   • # iscsiadmin -m node
7. Restart open-iscsi service
   • /etc/init.d/open-iscsi restart
8. Find the disk
   • # dmesg | tail
9. Mount the disk

• # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/iscsi