NAS:VMWare SRP Guide

VMware SRP Guide

This wiki is meant to help people get Infiniband SRP Target working under RedHat/CentOS 7.3 to VMWare ESXi 6.0x SRP Initiator. (although the process should work under any RHEL / CentOS 7.x build)

This guide should cover all of the steps from Mellanox OFED Driver compiling/installing/configuring, to SCST compiling/installing, to adding ZFS on Linux (ZoL), and finally configuring the SCST with all of the above. As well as the few ESX steps required to remove all of the inband drivers, install the OFED drivers, and be an active SRP initiator.

Not all of these steps are required for everyone, but i'm sure *someone* will appreciate them all together in one place :)

For the purposes of this guide, assuming you are always logged in as 'root'

RedHat/CentOS SRP Target Server Setup

These instructions are meant to be used with: - SCST 3.2.x (latest stable branch) as well as Mellanox OFED Drivers 3.4.2 (latest) [as the time of writing]

Driver Download Page http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=26&mtag=linux_sw_drivers

Driver Direct Download Link for RHEL/CentOS 7.3 x64 (Latest w/ OFED) http://www.mellanox.com/page/mlnx_ofed_eula?mtag=linux_sw_drivers&mrequest=downloads&mtype=ofed&mver=MLNX_OFED-3.4-2.0.0.0&mname=MLNX_OFED_LINUX-3.4-2.0.0.0-rhel7.3-x86_64.tgz

Step 1: Install Mellanox OFED Driver Installation prerequisites

# yum install tcl tk -y