Software/Driver Configuration And Fine-Tuning; Configuring Lio Iscsi Target; Offloading Lio Iscsi Connection - Chelsio Communications T5 Installation And User Manual

Chapter 5. Software/Driver Configuration and Fine-tuning

5. Software/Driver Configuration and Fine-tuning

5.1.

Configuring LIO iSCSI Target

The LIO iSCSI Target
Please refer the user manual at
Users_Reference_Manual.pdf
5.1.1. Sample Configuration
Here is a sample iSCSI configuration listing a target configured with 1 RAM disk LUN and ACL
not configured:
[root@host~]# targetcli ls
o- / .........................................................[...]
o- backstores.....................................................[...]
| o- block..........................................[Storage Objects: 0]
| o- fileio .....................................[Storage Objects: 0]
| o- pscsi .......................................[Storage Objects: 0]
| o- ramdisk ........................................[Storage Objects: 1]
| | o- ramdisk01 ...................................[(300.0MiB) activated]
| o- user ........................................[Storage Objects: 0]
o- iscsi ...........................................[Targets: 1]
| o- iqn.2015-12.org.linux-iscsi.proton.target01...................[TPGs: 1]
| o- tpg1 .........................................[gen-acls, no-auth]
| o- acls ...............................................[ACLs: 0]
| o- luns ...............................................[LUNs: 1]
| | o- lun1 .......................................[ramdisk/ramdisk01]
| o- portals ..........................................[Portals: 1]
| o- 102.10.10.121:3260 .........................................[OK]
o- loopback ...............................................[Targets: 0]
o- vhost ................................................[Targets: 0]
5.2.

Offloading LIO iSCSI Connection

To offload the LIO iSCSI Target use the following command:
[root@host~]# echo 1 >
/sys/kernel/config/target/iscsi/<target_iqn>/tpgt_1/np/<target_ip>\:3260/cxg
bit
Chelsio T5 LIO iSCSI Target Offload Driver for Linux
needs to be configured
http://linux-iscsi.org/builds/docs/LIO-3.0-
to do so.
before it can become useful.
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