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How to Add iSCSI Storage Under Oracle Solaris 11

September 11, 2013 , , , , ,
http://techsupportpk.blogspot.com/2013/09/iscsistorage.html

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.