Cisco Systems MDS 9000 Presenting Fibre Channel Targets as iSCSI Targets

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 20 iSCSI Configuration
Configuring iSCSI
Step 5 Set the zone name for this new iSCSI zone and optionally check the Read Only check box, as shown in
Figure 20-7.
Figure 20-7 Select Zone
Step 6 Click Finish to create this iSCSI initiator or click Cancel to close the wizard without creating the iSCSI
initiator. If created, the target VSAN is added to the iSCSI host VSAN listi.
Presenting Fibre Channel Targets as iSCSI Targets
The IPS module presents physical Fibre Channel targets as iSCSI targets allowing them to be accessed
by iSCSI hosts. It does this in one of two ways:
•Dynamic importing—use if all logical units (LUs) in all Fibre Channel storage targets are made
available to iSCSI hosts (subject to VSAN and zoning).
•Static importing—use if iSCSI hosts are restricted to subsets of LUs in the Fibre Channel targets
and additional iSCSI access control is needed (see the “Access Control in iSCSI” section on
page 20-16). Also, static importing allows automatic failover if the LUs of the Fibre Channel targets
are reached by redundant Fibre Channel ports (see the “High Availability Static Target Importing”
section on page 20-10).