FreeNAS and Proxmox iscsi

Just taking notes on the experiment

Freenas

- Storage / pools
  - mypool - add zvol
    - zvol name myscsizvol
    - size 20G

- Sharing / Block iscsi
- target global configuration
  - leave at defaults - basename of iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl
- portal - add with defaults
- authorized access - add
  - group id 1
  - user iscsi
  - secret secret
- targets - add
  - name - iscsi-trial
  - portal group id 1
- extents - add
  - name myextent
  - extent type device
  - device mypool/myscsizvo
- associated targets
  - target iscsi-trial
  - lun id 0
  - extent myextent


Proxmox
- Datacenter / storage - add iSCSI
  - ID iscsi
  - portal - IP address of the freenas server
  - target iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:iscsi-trial
  - use luns directly
- check that
  - node has storage 'iscsi' as "available", not "unknown".
  - it's content tab has a disk image listed
- create virtual machine
  - Hard Disk
    - Bus SCSI
    - storage iscsi
    - disk image CH 00 ID 0 LUN 0
I have no idea if this configuration is sane or safe, but it did allow me to install debian just fine.

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