Shared LVM iSCSI Server and Client configuration for CentOS

Target: (Server with storage): 10.10.10.2/24
Client: 10.10.10.1/24

Target:

Install iSCSI Utils if not available

Edit targets.conf

vi /etc/tgt/targets.conf

Paste the configuration below, change target name based on your needs

backing-store /dev/sdc1 
initiator-address 172.100.100.2 
# add more initiators if you need 
#initiator-address 172.50.50.2 
#incominguser username password

Enable tgtd service

chkconfig tgtd on

Start the service

service tgtd start

Note: If you don’t want any volume group to be automatically recognized by the operating system of the target, please filter the volume group to be seen on boot.
Edit /etc/lvm/lvm.conf and add this global_filter

global_filter = [ "a|^/dev/sdc1$|", "r/.*/" ]

8 June 2020