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Rescanning session [sid: 1, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:

0-8a0906-beee66602-27e79218c634bfec-sles1, portal:

10.10.5.7,3260]

4) Confirm the modified volume size was recognized:

# dmesg | tail

sdb: detected capacity change from 42954915840 to 53697576960

SCSI device sdb: 104878080 512-byte hdwr sectors (53698 MB)

sdb: Write Protect is off

sdb: Mode Sense: 91 00 00 00

SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through

5) Resize the filesystem:

# resize2fs /dev/sdb

resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)

Filesystem at /dev/sdb is mounted on /mnt/sles1; on-line

resizing required

Performing an on-line resize of /dev/sdb to 13109760 (4k)

blocks.

The filesystem on /dev/sdb is now 13109760 blocks long.

6) Verify the volume’s new size:

# df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

50786940 3710700 44454800 8% /

/dev/sda1 101086 12538 83329 14% /boot

tmpfs 8216020 0 8216020 0% /dev/shm

/dev/sdb 51615928 184272 48816128 1% /mnt/sles1

Task #3 - Access a Snapshot

1) Use the Group Manager GUI to take a snapshot:

Select the volume (sles1) -> Snapshots -> Create snapshot now

NOTE: Set snapshot online

2) Discover the new volume (slesl-date-timestamp):

# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 10.10.5.7

10.10.5.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-f57496702-

6a5ebc924194b842-vss-control

10.10.5.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-

beee66602-27e79218c634bfec-sles1

10.10.5.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-ae2e66602-

b156e11d6b04c0e7-sles1-2010-06-08-13:16:18.6512

3) Login to the discovered target, use the iSCSI qualified name <iqn> returned by the

discovery command (above):

# iscsiadm -m node -T <iqn> -p 10.10.5.7 --login