Table of Contents RPN-SAN : Proxmox Configuration of Proxmox for RPN usage Installation and configuration of Open-iSCSI Discovery and connection to targets in Proxmox Adding a LVM Group (Optional) RPN-SAN : Proxmox Critères requis : You have an account at console.online.net You have a Dedibox dedicated server You have subscribed to the RPN-SAN option All commands have to be run as the root user Configuration of Proxmox for RPN usage Connect with SSH to your server, as user root. ssh root@sd-XXX.dedibox.fr Edit the file /etc/network/interfaces, and replace the lines referring to eth1 with the following: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp The interface may be named different, depending on your hardware. You can identify the RPN interface by running ifconfig to verify the MAC address of the interface which is available in your management console. Reboot your server after saving the file. Your RPN is configured now. Installation and configuration of Open-iSCSI Proxmox needs the software Open-iSCSI to support mounting of iSCSI volumes. It may not be installed on your system. Connect with SSH to your server, as user root ssh root@sd-XXX.dedibox.fr Install open-iscsi (for example on Debian or Ubuntu) apt-get install open-iscsi Edit the file /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf vi /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf and add the following configuration lines node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_interval = 0 node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_timeout = 0 node.session.timeo.replacement_timeout = 86400 This change is designed to prevent your file system becomes read-only if the connection is interrupted for more than two minutes (by default) between your server and the storage server, which can happen during periods of maintenance. Configure the parameter that allows an automatic connection to the target node.startup = automatic You can also change these settings to take advantage of the data integrity check, if available node.conn[0].iscsi.HeaderDigest = CRC32C,None node.conn[0].iscsi.DataDigest = CRC32C,None After these modifications a restart is required Discovery and connection to targets in Proxmox In the Server View, click on Datacenter, then on the tab Storage. Click in the menu Add then at iSCSI Target and fill out the following form: ID: an identifier of your choice for your RPN-SAN storage Portal: The server on which your storage is available (example: san-1.rpn.online.net) Target: click on the arrow and the list of available targets will be displayed (if that is not the case, no need to go further, there is a problem) Nodes: The nodes that can access the target Enable: check this box Use LUNs directly: Do not check if you want to create an LVM Group (recommended, see next step). Check if you want to use the LUN directly. Shared: Attention: Do not check unless you really know what you are doing! Adding a LVM Group (Optional) This step only applies if you want to create a LVM Group for the storage of VM images. Click on Add then on iSCSI Target and fill out the form: ID: an identifier of your choice for your RPN-SAN storage Base Storage: click on the arrow and select the storage space previously mounted Base Volume : click on the arrow and select the line that appears Volume Group : an identifier of your choice for the volume group in the system Nodes : the nodes that can access this space Enable : check this box Your new storage is ready for use.