Dell PowerVault NX1950 - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents
1 Introduction
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Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PowerVault NX1950 Storage Solution Vs.
PowerVault NX1950 Cluster Solution . . . . . . . . . 8
iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
iSNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Active/Passive Vs. Active/Active iSCSI . . . . . . . 9
Before Setting Up the PowerVault NX1950
Storage Solution as an iSCSI Software Target
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Best Practices for Setting Up the iSCSI Storage
Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Quick Install Steps for Initiator-Target
Connection
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Method 1 (Discovery Using Target Portals) . . . . . . . 17
Pre-Requisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Configuring the Initiator (Host)
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Configuring iSCSI Connection With the
PowerVault NX1950 Storage Solution
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Creating a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Configuring iSCSI Connection With the
PowerVault NX1950 Cluster Solution . . . . . . . . 21
Configuring the Initiator-Target Connection
From Initiator (Host) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23