How to Add iSCSI Storage Under Oracle Solaris 11
This
short tutorial will guide you how to add iSCSI storage under Oracle Solaris
11 and how to create partition of iSCSI disk.
Check iSCSI discovery status
root@psrserver:~# iscsiadm
list discovery
Discovery:
Static: disabled
Send Targets: disabled
iSNS: disabled
Enable iSCSI Static discovery
root@psrserver:~# iscsiadm
modify discovery -s enable
root@psrserver:~# iscsiadm
list discovery
Discovery:
Static: enabled
Send Targets: disabled
iSNS: disabled
Add iSCSI targets
root@psrserver:~# iscsiadm
add static-config \ iqn.2006-01.com.openfiler:tsn.9b2243435347,172.22.2.15
root@psrserver:~# devfsadm -C
-i iscsi
Partitioning the iSCSI Disk
root@psrserver:~# format
Searching for disks...done
c9t2d0: configured with
capacity of 9.52GB
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c8t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0
1. c9t2d0
/iscsi/disk@0000iqn.2006-01.com.openfiler%3Atsn.9b22434353470001,0
Specify disk (enter its
number): 1
selecting c9t2d0
[disk formatted]
No Solaris fdisk partition
found.
FORMAT MENU:
disk - select a disk
type - select (define) a disk type
partition - select (define) a partition table
current - describe the current disk
format - format and analyze the disk
fdisk - run the fdisk program
repair - repair a defective sector
label - write label to the disk
analyze - surface analysis
defect - defect list management
backup - search for backup labels
verify - read and display labels
save - save new disk/partition definitions
inquiry - show disk ID
volname - set 8-character volume name
! - execute , then return
quit
format> fdisk
No fdisk table exists. The
default partition for the disk is:
a 100% "SOLARIS System" partition
Type "y" to accept
the default partition, otherwise type
"n" to edit the
partition table.
Y
format> par
PARTITION MENU:
0
- change `0' partition
1
- change `1' partition
2
- change `2' partition
3
- change `3' partition
4
- change `4' partition
5
- change `5' partition
6
- change `6' partition
7
- change `7' partition
select - select a predefined table
modify - modify a predefined partition
table
name
- name the current table
print
- display the current table
label
- write partition map and label to the disk
! - execute ,
then return
quit
partition> pr
Current partition table
(original):
Total disk cylinders
available: 1241 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag
Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
1 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2
backup wu 0 - 1240 9.51GB (1241/0/0) 19936665
3 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm
0 0
(0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
8
boot wu 0 -
0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065
9 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
partition> 0
Part Tag
Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
Enter partition id
tag[unassigned]:
Enter partition permission
flags[wm]:
Enter new starting cyl[0]:
Enter partition size[0b, 0c,
0e, 0.00mb, 0.00gb]: $
partition> label
Ready to label disk,
continue? y
partition> pr
Current partition table
(unnamed):
Total disk cylinders
available: 1241 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag
Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm
0 - 1240 9.51GB (1241/0/0) 19936665
1 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2
backup wu 0 - 1240 9.51GB (1241/0/0) 19936665
3 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm
0 0
(0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
8
boot wu 0 -
0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065
9 unassigned wm
0 0 (0/0/0) 0
partition>q
Apply filesystem and mount newly created partition
root@psrserver:~# newfs
/dev/rdsk/c9t2d0s0
newfs: construct a new file
system /dev/rdsk/c9t2d0s0: (y/n)? y
Warning: 616 sector(s) in
last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rdsk/c9t2d0s0: 19936664 sectors in 3245 cylinders of 48
tracks, 128 sectors
9734.7MB in 203 cyl groups (16 c/g, 48.00MB/g, 5824 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck
-F ufs -o b=#) at:
32, 98464, 196896, 295328, 393760, 492192,
590624, 689056, 787488, 885920,
18972832, 19071264, 19169696, 19268128,
19366560, 19464992, 19563424,
19661856, 19760288, 19858720
root@psrserver:~# mkdir
/iscsidsk
root@psrserver:~# mount
/dev/dsk/c9t2d0s0 /iscsidsk
root@psrserver:~# df –h
/dev/dsk/c7t0d0s2 585M
585M 0K 100%
/media/Oracle_Solaris-11_1-Text-X86
/export/home/labuser 25G
34K 25G 1%
/home/labuser
/dev/dsk/c9t2d0s0 9.4G
9.5M 9.3G 1%
/iscsidsk
That's it.
