SANRAD V-Switch manual Configuring a Cluster, Sample Configurations 271

Configuring a Cluster

You have just purchased two V-Switches and are ready to configure your host/storage network. Your company has one LAN for storage access and V-Switch management connections.

Your management station IP address is 212.199.43.40.

You have one FC JBOD that contains four disks.

Because you have only one company LAN, you will be using only one network port, Eth 2, to connect the V-Switches to the company hosts. Your LAN mask is 212.199.43.

You have two hosts 1 and 2 with Microsoft iSCSI initiators and running on Windows™ 2000 OS.

You will create identical V-Switch and volume configuration files for each V-Switch, with only the V-Switch aliases being unique.

You will create two mirrored volumes, Mirror1 and Mirror2, one to be exposed on V-Switch 1 to one host and one to be exposed on V-Switch 2 to both hosts.

This example explains how to:

Initialize the V-Switches via the LCD display panel and control buttons.

Name the V-Switches.

Identify a physical disk on multiple V-Switches.

Manage the V-Switches via terminal and Telnet session.

Configure a network port for IP takeover in the event that a neighboring V-Switch goes offline.

Configure a cluster.

Enable host access to more than one iSCSI target.

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