Initiator rules
and guidelines
This section de
scribes the following iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines:
•
“iSCSI Initiator rules an d guidelines” on page 31
•
“VMwar e iSCS I Initiator rules and guidelines” on page 31
•
“Windows iSCS
I Initiator rules and guidelines”onpage32
•
“OpenVMS iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines” on page 33
•
“Apple Mac OS X iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines” on page 32
•
“Linux iSCSI
Initiator rules and guidelines” on page 32
•
“Solaris iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines” on page 33
iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines
This section describes iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines.
• iSCSI Initiators and mpx100/100b iSCSI ports can reside in different IP subnets. This requires set-
ting the mpx100/100b iSCSI gateway feature. See “Configuring the mpx100/100b”onpage49
and “Command line interface” on page 141 for more information.
• There can be a maximum of eight mpx100/100b iSCSI targets per iSCSI Initiator.
• Both single pa th and multipath initiators are supported on the same mpx100/100b.
• Fibre Channel LUNs and iSCSI LUNs are not supported on the same server.
VMware iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines
Supports
:
• Native iSCSI soft ware initiator in VMware ESX 3.5
• Guest OS SCSI Controller, LSI Logic and/or BUS Logic (BUS Logic only with SUSE Linux)
• ESX serv
er's native multipath solution, based on NIC teaming in the server
• GuestOSbootfrommpx100/100biSCSIdevice
• VMFS file system data stores and raw device mapping for guest OS virtual machines
• Multi-
initiator access to the same LUN via VMFS cluster file system
• VMware ESX server 3.5 supports multipath, using ESX server's native multipath solution based
on N IC teaming
Does no
t s uppor t:
• Hardware iSCSI HBA
• BUS Logic Guest OS SCSI controller with Windows and/or Red Hat Linux
• EVA30
00/5000
Supported by the EVA iSCSI option with VMware:
• NIC teaming
• VMwar
enativeiSCSIsoftwareinitiator.
See “Installing and upgrading EVA iSCSI connectivity” on page 39.
Network teaming
The EVA iSCSI option supports NIC teaming with VMware.
iSCSI Initiator software
The EVA iSCSI option suppor ts the VMware native iSCSI software Initiator. See
“Ins
talling and upgrad ing EVA iSCSI connectivity” on page 39 for information on version support.
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