Hi Geoff,

With Alpha5, older iscsitgt service is no longer supported. Please use COMSTAR for iscsi.

http://www.nexenta.org/issues/59 How to use comstar zfs property: http://blogs.nexenta.org/blog/2009/03/03/nexenta-iscsi-with-comstarzfs-integration/

Thanks Anil

Thanks Anil.

I followed the steps in the blog link you gave me to replace iscsitgt with COMSTAR.

In the blog it says to use the zfs set shareiscsi=on, which doesn't work. The ticket says the shareiscsi property is going to be removed in Alpha5. When I try to use the shareiscsi=on, it doesn't work, which obviously makes sense.

Do you know if there is an easier way to manage targets than this:

zfs create -s -V 10g data/iscsitarget 
sbdadm create-lu /dev/zvol/rdsk/data/iscsitarget
## assuming the LU GUID returned was 600144f01cdf4f0000004af6f28b0001
stmfadm add-view 600144f01cdf4f0000004af6f28b0001
itadm create-target

thanks,

Geoff

Also, regarding zlib issue http://www.nexenta.org/issues/77

~Anil

hello geoff

you can manage your targets also via your browser it's much easier than to remember console commands.

you can either use stable nexentastore (free developer edition max 4tb) or free nexentacore (alpha5) with free napp-it web-gui (beta), which supports basic handling of comstar iscsi.

gea
www.napp-it.org

Hi Guenther.

We are using NCP as a virtual lab management storage system. I won't have to remember the commands since we are going to put it into the application logic.

I was just curious if there was an easier way to handle the creation. We were spoiled with how easy "shareiscsi=on" was :)

Geoff