HP EVA Array iSCSI Connectivity Option - Manual (Page 31)

Initiator rules and guidelines
This section describes the following iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines:
• “ iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines ” on page 31
• “ VMware iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines ” on page 31
• “ Windows iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines ” on page 32
• “ 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 ” on page 49
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 path 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 software initiator in VMware ESX 3.5
• Guest OS SCSI Controller, LSI Logic and/or BUS Logic (BUS Logic only with SUSE Linux)
• ESX server's native multipath solution, based on NIC teaming in the server
• Guest OS boot from mpx100/100b iSCSI device
• 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 NIC teaming
Does not support:
• Hardware iSCSI HBA
• BUS Logic Guest OS SCSI controller with Windows and/or Red Hat Linux
• EVA3000/5000
Supported by the EVA iSCSI option with VMware:
• NIC teaming
• VMware native iSCSI software initiator.
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 supports the VMware native iSCSI software Initiator. See
“ Installing and upgrading EVA iSCSI connectivity ” on page 39 for information on version support.
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