Editing Mounting iSCSI LUNs (section)

== Pre-requisites ==

It is assumed that you already have your storage server configured with LUNs (Volumes in the Dell EquaLogic vocabulary) as desired for the application.  These instructions assume that no passwords are needed to access the LUNs, but the ID/password stuff is straightforward enough in the config files that it shouldn't be an issue.

You will need to install the client software (it's not installed by default, though it is in the basic distributions):
* Debian/Ubuntu:  open-iscsi
* RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:  iscsi-initiator-utils

There is one change that needs to be made to the iscsi config file '''''/etc/iscsi/iscsi.conf''''': the node startup must be set to automatic (if it isn't already set that way).  Search for the '''node.startup''' parameter in the file and set it to 'automatic':

 node.startup = automatic

If passwords are required to access the storage server, add them to the configuration file as well.

Restart the service for this to take effect:

 sudo systemctl restart iscsid