Dell PowerVault NX1950 User Manual

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Detailed End-to-End iSCSI Setup

3 The Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Installation screen appears. The options

Initiator Service and Software Initiator are selected by default. The

Microsoft MPIO multi-pathing is unchecked. You must check this

options as the installation requires the use of Multipath I/O (MPIO) feature.

Click

Next.

NOTE:

You must select the Microsoft MPIO support for iSCSI during

installation to accomplish load balancing and failover among multiple NICs

and iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs). MPIO support in a PowerVault NX 1950

cluster system is available only if you install Microsoft iSCSI initiator

version 2.06 or later.

4 The License Agreement screen appears. Read the agreement and select

I Agree to continue with the installation. Click Next.

5 The Completing the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Installation Wizard

appears indicating the installation is complete. Click

Finish.

6 The Wizard prompts you to reboot the system. Click OK.

The system reboots and iSCSI Initiator is installed. A command-line

utility called

iSCSICLI is also installed. You can use the iSCSICLI utility

to manage the iSCSI Initiator service and HBAs.

The Release Notes and User Guide are saved to the local host when the iSCSI

Initiator package is extracted. You can find the following information in the

documents that are saved to the hard drive. Some of the restrictions in the list

below may change in future releases.

• Dynamic disks on an iSCSI session are not supported.
• The default iSCSI node name is generated from the Windows computer

name. If the Windows computer name contains a character that is invalid

within an iSCSI node name, such as

_ (underscore), then the Microsoft

iSCSI Initiator service replaces the invalid character with - (hyphen).

• Both Initiator and Target CHAP secrets should be greater than or equal to

12 bytes, and less than or equal to 16 bytes if IPsec is not being used. The

Initiator and Target CHAP secrets should be greater than 1 byte and less

than or equal to 16 bytes if IPsec is being used. For more information