The _netdev option tells the system to wait for the network before mounting.

The installation process typically involves a server-side setup for the target and a client-side configuration for the initiator. 1. Server-Side Installation (Target)

(also known as CCDisk ) is a storage server application that allows you to share your server's disk space, partitions, or virtual disk files (like VMDK or ISO) with multiple client computers as if they were local hard drives. Installation & Configuration Overview

: Define how much storage capacity the target should have. iSCSI Target : Select "New iSCSI Target". Target Name : Give it a target name (e.g., Target1 ).

Then on initiator, configure /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf :

If you meant (old), replace Ceph steps with targetcli directly on a local file/block device.