Tuesday, October 21, 2008

How to configure a iSCSI Volume using ZFS on opensolaris

This is just too easy. for example:

> mkfile 1000m /disk1 /disk2 /disk3
> zpool create zfs01 /disk1 /disk2 /disk3

> iscsitadm modify admin -d /zfs01/
> iscsitadm create target -z 1000m iscsizfs01

> /usr/sbin/iscsitgtd restart

I now have a 1 gig volume available over the network. Cool!
iscsi works well for applications requiring 400Mb/sec or less.

Other helpful commands:
> zpool list
> zpool status -v
> zpool upgrade #shows version info
> iscsitadm list target -v
> iscsitadm show admin

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