Dell PowerVault 3000i System Installation Manual

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56 Setting Up Your iSCSI Storage ArrayTo view active sessions to the target, use the following command:iscsicli SessionListTo support storage array controller failover, the host server must be connected to at least one iSCSIport on each controller. Repeat step 3 for each iSCSI port on the storage array that you want toestablish as a failover target. (The Target_Portal_Address will be different for each port youconnect to).PersistentLoginTarget does not initiate a login to the target until after the system is rebooted.To establish immediate login to the target, substitute LoginTarget forPersistentLoginTarget.NOTE: Refer to the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator 2.x User’s Guide for more information about thecommands used in the previous steps. For more information about Windows Server 2008 Server Core, refer tothe Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN). Both resources are available at www.microsoft.com.If you are using a Linux ServerIf you configured CHAP authentication in the previous steps, you must restart iSCSI from the Linuxcommand line as shown below. If you did not configure CHAP authentication, you do not need to restartiSCSI./etc/init.d/iscsi restartVerify that the host server is able to connect to the storage array by running the iscsi -ls command as youdid in target discovery. If the connection is successful, an iSCSI session will be established to each iSCSIport on the storage array.Sample output from the command should look similar to this:*******************************************************************************SFNet iSCSI Driver Version ...4:0.1.11-3(02-May-2006)*******************************************************************************TARGET NAME : iqn.1984-05.com.dell:powervault.6001372000f5f0e600000000463b9292TARGET ALIAS :HOST ID : 2BUS ID : 0TARGET ID : 0TARGET ADDRESS : 192.168.0.110:3260,1SESSION STATUS : ESTABLISHED AT Wed May 9 18:20:27 CDT 2007SESSION ID : ISID 00023d000001 TSIH 5*******************************************************************************TARGET NAME : iqn.1984-05.com.dell:powervault.6001372000f5f0e600000000463b9292TARGET ALIAS :HOST ID : 3BUS ID : 0TARGET ID : 0TARGET ADDRESS : 192.168.0.111:3260,1