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Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

PowerVault NX1950 Storage Solution Vs.

PowerVault NX1950 Cluster Solution

. . . . . . . . . 8

iSCSI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

iSNS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Active/Passive Vs. Active/Active iSCSI

. . . . . . . 9

Before Setting Up the PowerVault NX1950

Storage Solution as an iSCSI Software Target

. . . . . . 9

Best Practices for Setting Up the iSCSI Storage

Area Network

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Quick Install Steps for Initiator-Target

Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Method 1 (Discovery Using Target Portals) . . . . . . . 17

Pre-Requisites

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Configuring the Initiator (Host)

. . . . . . . . . . . 18

Configuring iSCSI Connection With the

PowerVault NX1950 Storage Solution

. . . . . . . 19

Creating a Virtual Disk

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Configuring iSCSI Connection With the

PowerVault NX1950 Cluster Solution

. . . . . . . . 21

Configuring the Initiator-Target Connection

From Initiator (Host) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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