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+title: "iSCSI Targets and Initiators"
+date: 2025-03-25
+draft: false
+summary: "Learn to configure an iSCSI target on Oracle Linux to share block storage devices with another Oracle Linux instance using an iSCSI initiator."
+tags: ["ol","lab","tutorial","ol-storage"]
+showDate: true
+---
+
+## Links
+
+:crescent_moon: [Lab](https://luna.oracle.com/lab/f85faa38-5476-41a0-951e-56dd86a8ba78)
+
+:spiral_notepad: [Tutorial](https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/ol-iscsi)
+
+## Details
+
+Oracle Linux uses the Linux-IO Target (LIO) to provide the block-storage SCSI target for FCoE, iSCSI, and Mellanox InfiniBand (iSER and SRP). For iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface), an iSCSI target is a server, storage array, or device that hosts storage resources and provides them as SCSI block devices (LUNs) accessible over an IP network to iSCSI initiators.
+
+An iSCSI initiator is a client device that uses the iSCSI protocol to send SCSI commands to an iSCSI target over an IP network, essentially acting as a client in a storage network.
+
+### Objectives
+
+In this tutorial, you'll learn how to:
+
+- Configure an iSCSI target
+- Configure an iSCSI Initiator
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+- Two Oracle Linux systems running the UEK kernel
+
+- Each system should have Oracle Linux installed and configured with:
+  - a non-root user with sudo permissions
+
+- Attach two 50GB block volumes to one instance as read-write for use as iSCSI block devices
+
+- OCI Ingress Rules allowing TCP and UDP traffic on port 3260. Security lists control the traffic in and out of the various subnets associated with the VCN.