I was failed to enable iSCSI Server plugin on OpenMediaVault 3.0.74. But now, I upgraded to OMV version 3.0.80 Erasmus. We will see if this new version has fixed this iSCSI plugin issue. So, basically I just want to show you how to configure the iSCSI server plugin on OMV 3.0.80 and see if it works. On my previous attempt, I could not run the iscsitarget service on OpenMediaVault.
Enable iSCSI plugin
Fist, we need to enable iSCSI target plugin. Go to Plugins page and find the openmediavault-iscsitarget plugin as follow.
At this point, if there is no error reported, we can continue to configuring the iSCSI Target.
Configure iSCSI Target
Go to Services | iSCSI Target to open the configuration. On the setting page, create a new discovery authentication if you want to enable this feature. Otherwise, go to Target tab. On the General tab, enter the identifier of the new target.
Now add new user inside Authentication tab
Now we need to configure LUN. OMV only support Block IO transfer mode for the LUN. You will need a dedicated disk for this target. See my example below.
Save the configuration and enable the iSCSI Service.
But, I still got the same error like this
So basically, this issue has not been fixed yet. This really annoying
Failed to execute command ‘export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C; systemctl start iscsitarget 2>&1’ with exit code ‘1’: Job for iscsitarget.service failed. See ‘systemctl status iscsitarget.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.
This is the status of the iscsitarget service
root@openmediavault:~# systemctl status iscsitarget
● iscsitarget.service – LSB: Starts and stops the iSCSI software target
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/iscsitarget)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-06-23 10:16:27 WITA; 2min 25s ago
Process: 29410 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/iscsitarget start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)Jun 23 10:16:27 openmediavault systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts and stops the iSCSI software target…
Jun 23 10:16:27 openmediavault iscsitarget[29410]: Starting iSCSI enterprise target service:modprobe: FATAL: Mo…und.
Jun 23 10:16:27 openmediavault iscsitarget[29410]: failed!
Jun 23 10:16:27 openmediavault systemd[1]: iscsitarget.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 23 10:16:27 openmediavault systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts and stops the iSCSI software target.
Jun 23 10:16:27 openmediavault systemd[1]: Unit iscsitarget.service entered failed state.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
This error is due to the iscsitarget that won’t work on Kernel 4.0.0. And OpenMediaVault 3.0.80 uses Kernel 4.9.0 series. So far, there is no clue on how to get this things done.
Really crappy 3.X update !