1 2 --------------------------------------- 3 Intel iSCSI v20 Reference Implementation 4 --------------------------------------- 5 6 This is a software implementation of iSCSI v20. Included in this distribution 7 are both host and target mode drivers with built in conformance and performance 8 tests, and sockets tests that can be used to simulate TCP traffic identical to 9 that generated between a real iSCSI host and target. 10 11 See PERFORMANCE for information regarding the expected performance of this 12 distribution. 13 14 This code has been successfully compiled and tested on Redhat 8.0 15 (kernel version 2.4.18-14) and Redhat 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.20) 16 with UP and SMP configurations. 17 18 ------------------- 19 Starting the System 20 ------------------- 21 22 1a) Modify the array in initiator.c to contain your target ip addresses and port 23 numbers. If you specify a TargetName there will be no discovery process. For 24 example, targets 0 and 2 below will first be discovered. Target 1 will not. 25 ISCSI_PORT is the default port defined in iscsi.h and currently set to 3260. 26 27 static INITIATOR_TARGET_T g_target[CONFIG_INITIATOR_NUM_TARGETS] = { 28 {"192.168.10.10", ISCSI_PORT, "", NULL, 0}, 29 {"192.168.10.11", ISCSI_PORT, "iqn.com.intel.abc123", NULL, 0}, 30 {"192.168.10.12", ISCSI_PORT, "", NULL, 0}}; 31 32 The initiator currently only connects to one of the discovered targets. If 33 multiple TargetNames and TargetAddresses are returned, all but 1 are ignored. 34 35 1b) Alternately for the kernel mode driver you may specify ip addresses 36 in a file in the local directory called "./intel_iscsi_targets". This 37 file will also be looked for in the /etc directory or you may specify 38 the file name as a module parameter to the insmod command using the 39 "gfilename" argument, (insmod intel_iscsi.o gfilename="./targets"). 40 The format for the contents of of the file is: 41 ip=192.168.10.10 42 ip=192.168.10.11 name=iqn.com.intel.abc123 port=3260 43 ip=192.168.10.12 44 The name and port fields are optional. If name is not specified, there 45 will be a discovery process. If port is not specified, the default port 46 of 3260 will be used. 47 48 1c) For the user mode intiator, if the first entry of the g_target array has ip 49 address "151.0.1.1", the initiator will prompt the user to enter the number 50 of targets and their ip addresses. 51 52 2) Modify the following constant in initiator.h accordingly: 53 54 #define CONFIG_INITIATOR_NUM_TARGETS 3 55 56 3) Run "make" to build each of: 57 58 intel_iscsi.o - kernel mode iSCSI initiator 59 kramdisk.o - kernel mode iSCSI target ramdisk 60 ufsdisk - user mode iSCSI target (disk stored as file in /tmp) 61 ufsdisk_mmap - same as ufsdisk, but uses mmap 62 uramdisk - user mode iSCSI ramdisk 63 utest - user mode iSCSI test suite 64 ktest - invokes same tests as utest, but from within device driver 65 usocktest - user mode sockets test that simulates iSCSI traffic 66 67 4) Start a user level target (uramdisk, ufsdisk, ufsdisk_mmap) on each target 68 machine: 69 70 Usage: -t <name> iSCSI TargetName (dflt "iqn.com.intel.abc123") 71 -p <port> Port Number (dflt 3260) 72 -b <block len> Block Length (dflt 512) 73 -n <num blocks> Number of Blocks (dflt 204800) 74 75 76 Or start the kernel level target (kramdisk.o): 77 78 Usage: insmod kramdisk.o port=<port> 79 block_len=<block length> 80 num_blocks=<number of blocks> 81 82 83 With ufsdisk and ufsdisk_mmap you can directly access a device in /dev by 84 creating a symbolic link in /tmp to point to the appropriate device. For 85 example: 86 87 "ln -s /dev/sdd /tmp/iqn.com.intel.abc123_3260_iscsi_disk_lun_0" 88 89 And kramdisk.o only operates in ramdisk mode. 90 91 5) Run utest. If you did not successfully connect to each target machine you 92 specified in initiator.c, then there was a problem. Make sure initiator.h 93 and initiator.c were correctly edited and all your targets had been started. 94 95 6) As root, run "insmod ./intel_iscsi.o." You should see output similar to the 96 following when either viewing /var/log/messages or running dmesg: 97 98 ********************************************* 99 * PARAMETERS NEGOTIATED * 100 * * 101 * InitiatorName: Intel * 102 * InitiatorAlias: Intel * 103 * SessionType: normal * 104 * TargetName: iqn.com.intel.abc12 * 105 ********************************************* 106 ********************************************* 107 * LOGIN SUCCESSFUL * 108 * * 109 * CID: 0 * 110 * ISID: 0 * 111 * TSID: 1 * 112 * CmdSN: 0 * 113 * MaxCmdSN: 0 * 114 * ExpStatSN: 0 * 115 ********************************************* 116 Vendor: Intel Model: Intel Labs iSCSI Rev: 2 117 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 118 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 119 SCSI device sdb: 204800 512-byte hdwr sectors (105 MB) 120 sdb: unknown partition table 121 122 You can now use the device as you would any other SCSI device. You can also 123 view driver statistics by viewing the file in /proc/scsi/iscsi. Writing to 124 the file (e.g. echo reset > /proc/scsi/iscsi/1) will reset all counters. 125 126 ------------------ 127 Testing the System 128 ------------------ 129 130 Once your targets and host have been started, you can test the installation 131 using either a single target, or by creating a RAID volume over multiple 132 targets. 133 134 To test a single target you can either directly read and write the device by 135 opening, for example, /dev/sdd. Or you can create a filesystem on the device: 136 137 fdisk /dev/sdd 138 mkfs /dev/sdd1 139 mount -t ext2 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/iscsi_fs 140 141 To test a multiple target installation, you can create a RAID volume, 142 virtualizing multiple targets as one SCSI device. The Linux RAID modules 143 will either need to be installed or compiled into the kernel. The file 144 /etc/raidtab must be created to reflect your targets. For example, 145 146 raiddev /dev/md0 147 raid-level 0 148 nr-raid-disks 5 149 persistent-superblock 0 150 chunk-size 64 151 152 device /dev/sdd 153 raid-disk 0 154 device /dev/sde 155 raid-disk 1 156 device /dev/sdf 157 raid-disk 2 158 device /dev/sdg 159 raid-disk 3 160 device /dev/sdh 161 raid-disk 4 162 163 164 After initialized the raid device with "mkraid /dev/md0," you can use /dev/md0 165 as though it were a normal SCSI device. For example, 166 167 mkfs /dev/md0 168 mount -t ext2 /dev/md0 /mnt/iscsi_fs 169 170 -------------------- 171 When Things Go Wrong 172 -------------------- 173 174 Check the kernel error messages /var/log/messages or run the dmesg command to 175 see any errors reported from the host driver. The targets will report target 176 errors to standard output. 177 178 If you need more fine grained debugging, modify the Makefile to turn on the 179 compilation flag CONFIG_ISCSI_DEBUG. Then run "make clean," and then "make." 180 You can select which type of debugging statements get printed by modifying 181 iscsiutil.h 182 183 ------------------------------------- 184 Interoperability with Cisco Initiator 185 ------------------------------------- 186 187 The target is tested to be interoperable with Cisco Initiator release 188 3.4.1.1 189
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