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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

Creating a Static iSCSI Virtual Target

You can manually (statically) create an iSCSI target and assign a node name to it. A statically mapped
iSCSI target can either contain the whole FC target port, or it can contain one or more LUs from a Fibre
Channel target port.
You can limit the Gigabit Ethernet interfaces over which static iSCSI targets are advertised. By default
iSCSI targets are advertised on all Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, subinterfaces, PortChannel interfaces,
and PortChannel subinterfaces.
To create a static iSCSI virtual target for the Fibre Channel target port, follow these steps
Step 1 Choose IP > iSCSI in Device Manager. You see the iSCSI dialog box.
Step 2 Choose the Targets tab to display a list of existing iSCSI targets.
Step 3 Click Create to create an iSCSI target. You see the Create iSCSI Targets dialog box.
Step 4 Set the iSCSI target node name in the iSCSI Name field, in IQN format.
Step 5 Set the Port WWN field for the Fibre Channel target port you are mapping.
Step 6 Choose the List radio button and set the iSCSI initiator node names or IP Addresses that you want this
virtual iSCSI target to access, or choose the All radio button to let the iSCSI target access all iSCSI
initiators. See the “Access Control in iSCSI” section on page 20-16.
Step 7 Choose the Selected from List radio button and check each interface you want to advertise the iSCSI
targets on or choose the All radio button to advertise all interfaces.
Step 8 Click Apply to save this change or click Cancel to close the dialog box without saving any changes.
See the “iSCSI-Based Access Control” section on page 20-17 for more information on controlling access
to statically imported targets.
For multiple interfaces configured with iSNS (see the “Configuring iSCSI Storage Name Services”
section on page 20-24), a different static virtual target name has to be created for each interface tagged
to an iSNS profile and each static virtual target must be advertised only from one interface (see the
“Configuring iSCSI Storage Name Services” section on page 20-24).