Hi, thanks for your quick response. The reason I'm asking about iSCSI is because I have been able to deploy and use it in earlier releases (the last one was probably Pacific), but I'm struggling with deploying NVMe-oF in a virtual lab cluster. I haven't had the time to really dig into it yet, so there's definitely a knowledge gap I need to close. Until I made some progress with NVMe-oF I thought maybe iSCSI could still be used. The use case is to grant access to an air-gapped Ceph cluster. Thanks! Eugen Zitat von Ernesto Puerta <epuertat@redhat.com>:
Hey Eugen,
AFAIK the Ceph NVMe-oF Gateway superseded the iSCSI one: it's actively maintained, more performant, scalable, secure and better integrated with the Ceph management & observability framework.
I'm curious: what's the target platform/use case for iSCSI that NVMe/TCP cannot fulfill?
Kind Regards, Ernesto
On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM Eugen Block via ceph-users < ceph-users@ceph.io> wrote:
Hi,
could someone clarify if using iscsi via cephadm is still supported or not? According to [0] it's "in maintenance" since November 2022, so no active development. But it's still documented in all active releases and can be deployed in Squid or Tentacle (though I haven't checked if it actually works). Is it still supported to use iSCSI?
Thanks! Eugen
[0] https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/iscsi-overview/#ceph-iscsi _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@ceph.io