NAME¶

SYNOPSIS¶

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

ctl_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION¶

• Disk, processor and cdrom device emulation
• Tagged queueing
• SCSI task attribute support (ordered, head of queue, simple tags)
• SCSI implicit command ordering support
• Full task management support (abort, LUN reset, target reset, etc.)
• Support for multiple ports
• Support for multiple simultaneous initiators
• Support for multiple simultaneous backing stores
• Support for VMWare VAAI: COMPARE AND WRITE, XCOPY, WRITE SAME, and UNMAP commands
• Support for Microsoft ODX: POPULATE TOKEN/WRITE USING TOKEN, WRITE SAME, and UNMAP commands
• Persistent reservation support
• Mode sense/select support
• Error injection support
• High Availability clustering support with ALUA
• All I/O handled in-kernel, no userland context switch overhead

It also serves as a kernel component of the native iSCSI target.

SYSCTL VARIABLES¶

kern.cam.ctl.debug

Bit mask of enabled CTL log levels:

1

log commands with errors;

2

log all commands;

4

log data for commands other then READ/WRITE.

Defaults to 0.

kern.cam.ctl.ha_id

Specifies unique position of this node within High Availability cluster. Default is 0 -- no HA, 1 and 2 -- HA enabled at specified position.

kern.cam.ctl.ha_mode

Specifies High Availability cluster operation mode:

0

Active/Standby -- primary node has backend access and processes requests, while secondary can only do basic LUN discovery and reservation;

1

Active/Active -- both nodes have backend access and process requests, while secondary node synchronizes processing with primary one;

2

Active/Active -- primary node has backend access and processes requests, while secondary node forwards all requests and data to primary one;

All above modes require established connection between HA cluster nodes. If connection is not configured, secondary node will report Unavailable state; if configured but not established -- Transitioning state. Defaults to 0.

kern.cam.ctl.ha_peer

String value, specifying method to establish connection to peer HA node. Can be "listen IP:port", "connect IP:port" or empty.

kern.cam.ctl.ha_link

Reports present state of connection between HA cluster nodes:

0

not configured;

1

configured but not established;

2

established.

kern.cam.ctl.ha_role

Specifies default role of this node:

0

primary;

1

secondary.

This role can be overriden on per-LUN basis using "ha_role" LUN option, so that for one LUN one node is primary, while for another -- another. Role change from primary to secondary for HA modes 0 and 2 closes backends, the opposite change -- opens. If there is no primary node (both nodes are secondary, or secondary node has no connection to primary one), secondary node(s) report Transitioning state. State with two primary nodes is illegal (split brain condition).

kern.cam.ctl.iscsi.debug

Verbosity level for log messages from the kernel part of iSCSI target. Set to 0 to disable logging or 1 to warn about potential problems. Larger values enable debugging output. Defaults to 1.

kern.cam.ctl.iscsi.maxcmdsn_delta

The number of outstanding commands to advertise to the iSCSI initiator. Technically, it is the difference between ExpCmdSN and MaxCmdSN fields in the iSCSI PDU. Defaults to 256.

kern.cam.ctl.iscsi.ping_timeout

The number of seconds to wait for the iSCSI initiator to respond to a NOP-In PDU. In the event that there is no response within that time the session gets forcibly terminated. Set to 0 to disable sending NOP-In PDUs. Defaults to 5.

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