Creating iSCSI target

[NickC]

Is there a way to create iSCSI targets from Mageia Control Center or from some other GUI tool?

Also I notice that I have two iSCSI target packages:
iscsitarget - iSCSI target
&
dkms-iscsitarget - iSCSI target kernel module

At the moment I have only the base iscsitarget installed not the dkms-iscsitarget. What is the difference, which should I have installed?

[doktor5000]

The dkms one contains the iSCSI kernel module, the other one contains the binarys and userspace tools.
This can be seen from the description of those packages, you can view them via urpmq -i packagename f.ex.

[NickC]

So I guess I need both installed then is that correct? Do I need the dkms-kernel on both the iscsi target and initiator?

Thanks

[doktor5000]

May i ask what you want to achieve with iSCSI? Normally you will connect to some storage box ...

Some links: http://www.howtoforge.com/iscsi_on_linux
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-cent ... howto.html

[NickC]

May i ask what you want to achieve with iSCSI? Normally you will connect to some storage box ...

Looking at how to use iSCSI to create a resilient SAN. The idea being to have multiple iSCSI Targets all joined together on the iSCSI Initiator to create a RAID array.