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Page 46: Iscsi port summary

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Description

Column

The partner port.

Partner

The IP address of the partner port.

Partner IP

Indicates if the system is in a failover state.

Failover State

Detail Pane

The detail pane provides detailed information about a selected port from the list pane. Information
is presented a Summary tab, a Sessions tab, and a Hosts tab. Each are discussed in detail in the
following sections:

“iSCSI Port Summary Tab” (page 46)

“Sessions Tab” (page 47)

“Hosts Tab” (page 47)

iSCSI Port Summary Tab

The iSCSI port summary is displayed on the Summary tab.

The following information is provided:

Description

Field

Group

The port location in Node:Slot:Port format.

Position

General

The designated port label.

Label

Indicates whether the port is FC, iSCSI, RCIP, or RCFC.

Type

Rate that data can be transferred over the port (1 Gbps, 2 Gbps
or 4 Gbps). When there is no specified value, no connection exists.

Rate

Type of device that the port is connected to. Free, Disk, Host, Peer,
or InServ.

Connected Device Type

Name of device that the port is connected to, e.g. host1, cage0.

Connected Device

Port firmware mode setting. Ports in Initiator mode are connected
to drive cages and ports in Target mode export to hosts. Suspended

Mode

mode is for target ports that have not yet been initialized by the
system (rare). Peer mode is for Ethernet ports.

Current state of the port.

State

The Media Access Control address for the Ethernet interface.

MAC

The Target Portal Group Tag for the iSCSI target portal group.

TPGT

The throughput in KB/sec.

Total Data Throughput

Resources

For iSCSI ports. Indicates if the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) protocol is enabled or disabled.

DHCP

IP Settings

IP address of the iSCSI port.

IP Address

The address of a local IP router on the same network as the Storage
System, used to forward traffic to destinations beyond the local
network.

Gateway

Netmask address for the iSCSI interface.

Subnet Mask

Maximum Transmission Unit. The greatest amount of data or
"packet" size that can be transferred at one time over a particular

MTU

network connection without overburdening the connection. The
default MTU setting for an iSCSI port is 1500. When supported by
the network, an MTU value of 9000 should be used.

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Managing Ports

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