by ·Comments Off on Working with packages in OpenSolaris

Just a quick note on how to work with packages in OpenSolaris. pkg is used to manage packages.

pkg refresh

Will cause the system to refresh what packages are available.

pkg image-update

Will initiate a system upgrade.

pkg install SUNWiscsitgt

Will start an install OR upgrade of the SUNWiscsitgt package

by ·Comments Off on Create a ZFS dataset and share it using iSCSI

One of the things I need to test is using iSCSI to store data on some Windows servers. Here is a quick synopsis of how to create a storage pool and then create a ZFS dataset that can be shared using iSCSI

Create the pool from the available disks, if they don’t already exist. Be sure to read docs on what kind of pool you want to create. I’m using raid-z

zpool create raid-z test /dev/dsk/c0t1d0 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0 /dev/dsk/c0t3d0 /dev/dsk/c0t4d0

Create the data set and share it using iSCSI

zfs create -s -V40G test/iscsi
zfs set shareiscsi=on test/iscsi

You should now have 40GB of iscsi based storage available. Use iscsi-initiator on Windows XP/Vista/Server 2003 to attach to the iscsi target, assign a drive letter and format.