Anyone use an Equallogic iscsi SAN w/AIX? 1

[BobMCT]

Anyone have any success is connecting an AIX 5.3 box to an Equallogic SAN?

If so, please advise what steps were necessary to accomplish this???

Thank you.

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

Well, first of all , for every iscsi box you want to connect to AIX, you have to install the filesets for iscsi.

# lslpp -l | grep -i iscsi
devices.common.IBM.iscsi.rte
5.2.0.30 COMMITTED Common iSCSI Files
devices.iscsi.disk.rte 5.2.0.30 COMMITTED iSCSI Disk Software
devices.iscsi.tape.rte 5.2.0.0 COMMITTED iSCSI Tape Software
devices.iscsi_sw.rte 5.2.0.1 COMMITTED iSCSI Software Device Driver
devices.iscsi_sw.rte 5.2.0.1 COMMITTED iSCSI Software Device Driver

Add the IP Address, default iSCSI port number, and iSCSI NodeName of your equallogic

# tail -2 /etc/iscsi/targets
10.0.0.101 3260 iqn.1992-08.com.whatever:sn.33580086

Change iqn name of AIX to be RFC compliant :
#lsattr -El iscsi0
nodename.iqn.aixhost1.hostid.0a3cac46
Change the default initiator nodename to include a date in the second field:

iqn.yyyy-mm.hostname.hostid.0a3cac46
Use the following to change the nodename:
chdev -l iscsi0 -a initiator_name=iqn.1996-04.aixhost1.hostid.0a3cac46
For this example it will be as shown below:
# chdev -l iscsi0 -a initiator_name=iqn.1992-08.com.ibm:aix-rtp.0a3cc1dc
iscsi0 changed

create an igroup on the equallogic,add the iqn number of your AIX box.Create luns, map the luns to the igroup.

do a rescan on the AIX box :
# cfgmgr -l iscsi0

with lspv you should be able to see your disks...

rgds,

R.

 

[BobMCT]

Thank you R.

I appreciate your level of detail and will follow your steps completely.

B