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Configuring iSCSI Volume in Ubuntu/Linux

The other day i got  Dell  EqualLogic  PS6000  Series SAN box to experiment on.  For windows it was pretty straight forward using the iSCSI tool present in administrative tools.  I wanted to try it on Linux so i searched a bit and at last formatted & mounted it on Ubuntu. Here are the steps that i followed. Follow the steps to configure iSCSI volume on ubuntu (i tried on 11.10): 1)  You need to install open-iscsi package :       #sudo apt-get install open-iscsi 2) Now you need to run discovery agains t the iscsi host:       # iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p <iscsi server ip address> eg: If 192.168.11.110 is the ip address of iscsi server       # iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.1.110 OR       # iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 192.168.11.110 3)  Note down the record id (such as iqn.xxxxxxxxxxxxx:test) found by the discovery. You need the                same for login. Login, must use a n