HP StorageWorks 2/32 Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabr - Page 193
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Chapter Administering the iSCSI Target Gateway 14 This chapter describes how to use the iSCSI Target Gateway. The gateway is an intermediate device in the network, allowing iSCSI initiators in an IP SAN to access and utilize storage in a Fibre Channel SAN. In this chapter • Supported platforms for iSCSI 171 • About the iSCSI service 171 • Setting up iSCSI Target Gateway Services 174 Supported platforms for iSCSI The iSCSI target gateway service is supported only on the Brocade 48000 director with CP blades running Fabric OS 5.2.0 and configured with an FC4-16IP blade (see the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide for more information). About the iSCSI service The Web Tools iSCSI Target Gateway Admin module conducts all management tasks related to the iSCSI target gateway service. Although iSCSI service is fabric wide, you can manage the iSCSI target gateway service through any iSCSI-capable switch in a fabric. Any applied iSCSI target gateway change is propagated and enforced to the whole fabric. Web Tools, as an element management tool, allows you to manage iSCSI target gateway service through one switch. Through the iSCSI Target Gateway Admin module, you are able to conduct iSCSI target gateway-related management tasks, such as creating and managing iSCSI virtual targets, managing iSCSI sessions and iSCSI authentications, and editing discovery domains sets that enforce iSCSI device access control. The iSCSI port configuration is available to both the iSCSI Target Gateway Admin module and the port management module. Web Tools, as a GUI-based SAN element management tool, can recognize and manage the FC4-16IP port blade in the Brocade 48000 director chassis and all Fibre Channel ports and GbE ports on the blade. When a GbE port is configured to support iSCSI, it can transport SCSI traffic over an IP network. Each GbE port has a unique IP address called an "iSCSI target portal" and each port supports 64 iSCSI sessions. The TCP/IP stack at the port provides support for multiple TCP connections over a single GbE port. In Web Tools, ports are addressed using slot number and port number notation (for example, 2,16). • For Fibre Channel ports on the FC4-16IP blade, the range of ports will be 0 through 7. Web Tools Administrator's Guide 171 Publication Number: 53-1000435-01