A poor man’s guide for creating iscsi targets without using external USB hard disks

A special need..
Those of you who have a need for exposing iscsi targets to other machines for discovery, but who do not want to invest in an external USB hard disk OR who do not want to have a USB external hard disk connected to a desktop 24×7, there is a better way of [...]

iSCSI: no LUNs detected for session when using openfiler

A common problem…
If you are using openfiler, at some point of time, you are bound to reboot the openfiler OS/machine. After the reboot, a common problem is that openfiler forgets or loses the logical volume/volume group information.
So, as a workaround, you need to issue the following commands:
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# to discover the volume groups
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# vgscan [...]