Discovering and logging in to targets using YaST (SUSE-specific)

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Complete the steps in the following procedure to connect to targets.

Procedure

  1. As a root user, launch YaST
  2. Select Network Services > iSCSI Initiator.
    1. Select Service as shown in Figure 1.
    2. In Service Start, select Manually.
    3. In Initiator Name, specify the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN).
    4. Click OK.
    Figure 1. iSCSI Initiator Overview window
    Window displaying Initiator Overview startup information, such as initiator name, iSNS address, manually startup or startup at boot.
  3. Select Discovered Targets > Add.
    1. In IP Address, specify the IP address of the iSCSI portal.
    2. In Port, specify the iSCSI port.
    3. Select No Authentication.
    Figure 2. iSCSI Initiator Discovery window
    Window showing iSCSI Discovery options
  4. Click Next to discover the target as show in Figure 3.
    Figure 3. iSCSI Initiator Discovery
    Window showing that targets are not connected.
  5. Click Connect.
  6. Click No Authentication as shown in Figure 4.
    Figure 4. Select No Authentication
    Window showing "No Authentication" selected.
  7. Click Next to confirm connected is true as shown in Figure 5.
    Figure 5. Target is connected
    Window confirming that the target is connected.
  8. Click Connect. The window is displayed as shown in Figure 6.
    Figure 6. Connected targets
    Window showing the connected targets.

Results

The iSCSI devices are discovered and available on the system:
# lsscsi 
[0:0:0:0]    disk    IBM      2145             0000  /dev/sda