.. _Preparing to Work with iSCSI Targets:

Preparing to Work with iSCSI Targets
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On each node where you want to create iSCSI targets, do the following:

#. Make sure the ``vstorage-iscsi`` and ``vstorage-scsi-target-utils`` packages are installed on the node.

#. Make sure that the node has access to the |product_name| cluster as client and has an entry in ``/etc/fstab``.

#. Create a directory in the |product_name| cluster where you will store iSCSI targets and their configurations. For example, ``/vstorage/stor1/iscsi``.

#. Set the ``ISCSI_ROOT`` variable in ``/etc/vstorage/iscsi/config`` to the directory from the previous step. For example:

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       ISCSI_ROOT=/vstorage/stor1/iscsi

You are now ready to create iSCSI targets in your |product_name| cluster.