.. _Preparing to Work with Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform iSCSI Targets:

Preparing to Work with Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform iSCSI Targets
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On each Virtuozzo Hardware Node, where you need to create and run iSCSI targets, do the following:

1. Make sure the ``vstorage-iscsi`` and ``vstorage-scsi-target-utils`` packages are installed on the Hardware Node.

2. Make sure that the Hardware Node has access to the Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform cluster as client and has an entry in ``/etc/fstab``.

3. Create a directory in the Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform cluster where you will store iSCSI targets and their configuration. For example, ``/vstorage/stor1/iscsi``.

4. Set the ``ISCSI_ROOT`` variable in ``/etc/vstorage/iscsi/config`` to the directory from the previous step. For example:
   ISCSI_ROOT=/vstorage/stor1/iscsi

You are now ready to create and run iSCSI targets in your Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform cluster.

