ISCSI

• linux iscsi heartbeat
• link aggregation
• Add disk to raid 5

Target just means that this machine will house the physical hard drives and will share them as ISCSI drives.

http://www.howtoforge.com/using-iscsi-on-debian-squeeze-initiator-and-target

HP System Management Homepage needed to run ACU CLI in the web browser.

For HP Homepage, add –nopre option to the rpm install command.

getting softRaid status:

cat /proc/mdstat
watch cat /proc/mdstat

adding hp array config to linux:

for openfiler:
 conary update rpm
 rpm -ivh --nodeps <package-name>

for debian:
 apt-get install alien
 alien -k <package-name>
 dpkg -i <package-name>

HP ACU CLI Commands:

controller slot=9 logicaldrive all show detail
controller all show config detail
ctrl slot=9 modify nbwc=disable
controller slot=9 show detail
controller slot=9 logicaldrive 1 modify caching=enable

Reference

Openfiler works pretty well. (for disks that are smaller than 2TB)

• tw_cli
• similar to the hp cli install

Initiator just means that this box will connect to the targets and create disk that can be shared over the network.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee338477%28v=ws.10%29.aspx