How To Install open-iscsi on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install open-iscsi
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is open-iscsi
open-iscsi is:
Open-iSCSI is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of the RFC3720 Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI).
Open-iSCSI is partitioned into user and kernel parts, where the kernel portion implements the iSCSI data path (i.e. iSCSI Read and iSCSI Write). The userspace contains the entire control plane:
- Configuration Manager;
- iSCSI Discovery;
- Login and Logout processing;
- Connection level error processing;
- Nop-In and Nop-Out handling;
- (in the future) Text processing, iSNS, SLP, Radius, etc.
This package includes a daemon, iscsid, and a management utility, iscsiadm.
There are three methods to install open-iscsi
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install open-iscsi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install open-iscsi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install open-iscsi
Install open-iscsi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install open-iscsi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install open-iscsi
Install open-iscsi Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install open-iscsi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install open-iscsi
How To Uninstall open-iscsi on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the open-iscsi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove open-iscsi
Uninstall open-iscsi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall open-iscsi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove open-iscsi
Remove open-iscsi Configurations and Data
To remove open-iscsi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge open-iscsi
Remove open-iscsi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove open-iscsi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge open-iscsi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install open-iscsi
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.