FC Target
Hi,
I have RHEL 5.5 as a file server - NFS/CIFS. I would like to host FC LUN for a lab host.
I know ISCSI has ISCSI-target which works fine - are there any FiberChannel targets ?
The main motivation is having a LAB unified storage.
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Guru
3262 points
SCST looks like it may be what you are looking for. It is a general SCSI target framework that I believe also supports Fibrechannel.
http://scst.sourceforge.net/
Pro
760 points
Much of the generic SCSI target userspace is in the package scsi-target-utils, with the rest being in the kernel. The upstream project (STGT) is here:
I can't attest to the status of the upstream project's support for FC cards. However, the EL6.2 Beta is shipping with FCoE target support as a tech preview.
- http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html-single/6.2_Release_Notes/index.html#kernel
- http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html-single/6.2_Technical_Notes/#kernel_tp
"Support for Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) target mode
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 includes support for Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) target mode, as a Technology Preview. This kernel feature is configurable via targetadmin, supplied by the fcoe-target-utils package. FCoE is designed to be used on a network supporting Data Center Bridging (DCB). Further details are available in the dcbtool(8) and targetadmin(8) man pages."
I know there is another project (SCST) that offers various target support, and allegedly QLogic FC card support as a target. But I am ignorant on this project, and I don't think it is upstream to any Enterprise Linux release (yet?).
I haven't kept up, so I could be behind in the latest adoptions. SCST makes several claims in its project page.
I don't know what would be supported by Red Hat outside of the SGST support it includes, but I'm sure you should be considering EL6 (2.6.32) as a base if you're looking towards SCST.