Cisco Systems MDS 9000 iSCSI Access Control

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter35 Configuring iSCSI
Configuring iSCSI
Advanced VSAN membership for iSCSI hosts
iSCSI Access Control
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Fibre Channel Zoning Based Access Control
devices. Zoning is the standard access control mechanism for Fibre Channel devices which is applied
within the context of a VSAN. Fibre Channel zoning has been extended to support iSCSI devices and
their extension has the advantage of having a uniform, flexible access control mechanism across the
whole SAN.
iSCSIiSCSI
Host B
iSCSIiSCSI
Host A
(VSAN X)
iSCSIiSCSI
Host C
MDS
Virtual
Host A
Virtual
Host C
Virtual
Host B
T1
120870
IP
network
T2
VSAN Y
VSAN X
VSAN Y
VSAN X
iSCSI interface 1/1
port VSAN = Y