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Guidelines for Configuring Your Network for iSCSI

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7 To specify the location of the file that you want to import into the

Lmhosts file, select

Import LMHOSTS and then select the file in the

Open dialog box.

8 Enable or disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

If using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Core Version, use the netsh

interface command to configure the iSCSI ports on the host server.

Linux Host Setup

To set up a Linux host network, you must configure the IP address and

netmask of each iSCSI port connected to the storage array. The specific steps

depend on whether you are configuring TCP/IP using DHCP or configuring

TCP/IP using a static IP address.

NOTE:

The server IP addresses must be configured for network communication to

the same IP subnet as the storage array management and iSCSI ports.

If you are using DHCP (root users only):

1 Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network file:

NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=mymachine.mycompany.com

2 Edit the configuration file for the connection you want to configure, either

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (for Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

or

/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (for SUSE

Enterprise Linux).

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

Also, verify that an IP address and netmask are not defined.

3 Restart network services using the following command:

/etc/init.d/network restart

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