Editing Mounting iSCSI LUNs (section)

== Establishing Sessions ==

Mounting the LUN on the storage server to the client system is a two-part process.  First, you have to establish a session between the client (initiator in iSCSI vocabulary) and the target (server).  The first step is to connect to the server to see what LUNs it has available:

 iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p <SERVER-IP>

This will produce output similar to:

 10.2.0.201:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-52b816708-021a01fa52261173-shared
 10.2.0.201:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-85f816708-38832e635165c2b0-files

The first part is the server IP and port (should be the same as specified in the command), but the last part of each line is the '''''iqn''''' for the LUN being advertised.  The last part of the iqn should be the name of the LUN/volume ... if there is a problem identifying which one, look back at the storage server.  Establishing a session for a LUN should be as simple as:

 iscsiadm -m node -T <iqn from above> -p <SERVER-IP> -l

Once this is done (and if you set the node startup to 'automatic' above), it will persist across reboots and you should not have to do this again.