iSCSI target to tell its own IP address during discovery?

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febren
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Fri Sep 29, 2017 10:37 am

I’m trying to evaluate StarWind’s iSCSI target as a storage solution for some video surveillance applications. The problem is that the iSCSI initiator expects the iSCSI target to include its own IP address in the response to the SendTargets=All request during discovery. As per rfc3720 this is only optional. But my initiator seems to require it.
Is there any way that I can configure the iSCSI target in a way that it tells the initiator its own IP address during discovery?
thanks
Sergey (staff)
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Fri Sep 29, 2017 4:07 pm

Hello, febren! Thank you for the question. Please find starwind.cfg file, by default located in C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind folder. You have to find <iScsiDiscoveryListInterfaces value="0"/> string and update 0 to 1. You have to stop StarWindService before updating starwind.cfg file, and start it again after you save the changes. Let me know how it goes.
febren
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Mon Oct 09, 2017 11:59 am

Hello Sergey,
thanks for your quick help. This brings me a step further. The initiator is now able to read the IP address. But for some reason it still cannot read the LUNs.
I'll have to dig a bit deeper into the issue and will let you know about the result.
Sergey (staff)
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Mon Oct 09, 2017 4:30 pm

Did you connect to target with iSCSI Initiator? Please check the guide for Hyper-V:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/techni ... luster.pdf
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