I personally find iSCSI to be an overrated storage solution; there are so many better, more managable options out there.

RHEL/CentOS 5.3 and iSCSI Targets

July 7th, 2009
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Strongly recommend grabbing the enterprise iSCSI target package from ATrpms. Direct link to the package listing is: http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/iscsitarget/.

The scsi-target-utils package distributed with RHEL/CentOS 5.3 is okay for simple stuff, but definitely out of date. And it completely fails when attempting to boot diskless systems via iSCSI over Infiniband. Spent quite a bit of time tonight attempting to figure out why BoIB 2.0.0 with a ConnectX card refused to communicate with my apparently working (export connectable/useable on other machines) iSCSI volume. Replaced tgtadm with the enterprise iSCSI target, and boom – instant satisfaction.

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