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38 Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
Configuring the iSCSI Initiator without iSNS
On the cluster node:
1
Open the Navisphere Server Utility.
2
Select
Configure iSCSI Connections on this cluster node
and click
Next
.
3
Select
Configure iSCSI Connections
and click
Next
.
4
In the
iSCSI Targets and Connections
window, select one of the following
options to discover the iSCSI target ports on the connected storage
systems:
–
Discover iSCSI targets on this subnet
- Scans the current subnet for
all connected iSCSI storage-system targets. The utility scans the
subnet in the range from 1 to 255.
If CHAP authentication is enabled on all target ports on a storage
system, you cannot discover the iSCSI target ports using a subnet
scan. You must discover the targets using the target portal.
–
Discover iSCSI targets for this target portal
- Discovers targets known
to the specified iSCSI SP data port.
5
Click
Next
.
6
For each target you want to log in to:
a
In the
iSCSI Targets
window, select the IP address of the Inactive
target.
b
In the
Login Options
section, select
Also login to peer iSCSI target
for High Availability
(recommended) if the peer iSCSI target is listed.
c
If you selected
Also login to peer iSCSI target for High Availability
(recommended) in step b, leave the Server Network Adapter IP set to
Default to allow the iSCSI initiator to automatically fail over to an
available NIC in the event of a failure.
d
Click
Logon
to connect to the selected target.
e
If the CHAP authentication is enabled on the target, a CHAP login
dialog box is displayed.
Enter the CHAP security information. If you also use mutual CHAP
for the software Initiator to authenticate the target, select the
Mutual
CHAP
option and click
OK
.