===== iSCSI basics =====
In the world of iSCSI the following terms apply:
  * the iSCSI server is called 'iSCSI target'
  * the iSCSI client is called 'iSCSI initiator'.\\ 
To keep this wiki compatible to other guides the terms 'target' and 'initiator' are used as described above.
 
__Warning:__\\ 
Kernels before the version 3.2.0-38 include a bug with respect to iSCSI: As long as other technologies (e.g. LVM, multipath) still access iSCSI devices, every trial to log out of an iSCSI device leads to a non-recoverable kernel trace error. Only a restart of the host can recover from this error.

Even a restart or an update of the software package 'open-iscsi' can initiate such a log-out and thus lead to a kernel trace error. Data loss can be the result.

As a conclusion iSCSI must not be used on productive KVM hosts using a kernel version prior to version 3.2.0-38. All current Linux distributions meanwhile use more recent kernel versions.

The running kernel version can be found e.g. with ''uname'':
  root@kvm55:~# uname -r
  3.2.0-43-generic

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