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Load balance policy – Dell PowerVault DP500 User Manual

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Devices Tab

The Devices tab of Target Properties screen provides generic device details
like the Virtual Disks that are associated with the Target.

Click Advanced to view information about MPIO and Launch the Device
Details screen. To modify the MPIO settings, you can use the MPIO tab.

Properties Tab

The Properties tab of Target Properties screen provides information about
Target Alias, Authentication, Associated Network portals, and other details of
the Target.

Load Balance Policy

To set different load balancing policies, perform the following steps after you
have established the Initiator-Target Connection:

1 Go to iSCSI Initiator properties→ Targets tab and select the Target that

is Connected

→ Details→ Target Properties→ Sessions tab→

Connections.

2 The Session Connections screen appears and is populated with the load

balancing policy details. The default option is Round Robin. You can
select the required option from the Load Balance Policy drop-down menu
to configure the Load Balance Policy. Click Apply.

You can configure load balancing for each connection from the different
Load Balance Policy options that are available. When you select each policy
in the Load Balance Policy field of the Connections tab, the following
descriptions are displayed on the screen.

Fail Over Policy—

The fail over policy employs one

active path and designates all other paths as

standby. The standby paths will be tried on a

round-robin approach upon failure of the active

path until an available path is found

.

Round Robin—

The round robin policy attempts to

evenly distribute incoming requests to all

possible paths

.