ceph/doc/rbd/iscsi-targets.rst

   1 =============
   2 iSCSI Targets
   3 =============
   4
   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
  11 -  RHEL/CentOS 7.5; Linux kernel v4.17 or newer; or the `Ceph iSCSI client test kernel <https://shaman.ceph.com/repos/kernel/ceph-iscsi-test>`_
  12
  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>