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| 2 | iSCSI Targets | |
| 3 | ============= | |
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| 5 | Traditionally, block-level access to a Ceph storage cluster has been | |
| 6 | limited to QEMU and ``librbd``, which is a key enabler for adoption | |
| 7 | within OpenStack environments. Starting with the Ceph Luminous release, | |
| 8 | block-level access is expanding to offer standard iSCSI support allowing | |
| 9 | wider platform usage, and potentially opening new use cases. | |
| 10 | ||
| 11fdf7f2 | 11 | - Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7.5 (or newer); Linux kernel v4.16 (or newer) |
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| 13 | - A working Ceph Storage cluster, deployed with ``ceph-ansible`` or using the command-line interface | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | - iSCSI gateways nodes, which can either be colocated with OSD nodes or on dedicated nodes | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | - Separate network subnets for iSCSI front-end traffic and Ceph back-end traffic | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | A choice of using Ansible or the command-line interface are the | |
| 20 | available deployment methods for installing and configuring the Ceph | |
| 21 | iSCSI gateway: | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | .. toctree:: | |
| 24 | :maxdepth: 1 | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | Using Ansible <iscsi-target-ansible> | |
| 27 | Using the Command Line Interface <iscsi-target-cli> |