Dell PowerVault NX3000 Deployment Manual

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Appendix 51Securing data on an iSCSI SAN—To help secure data transfers between theserver and the subsystem, configure security for the login sessions betweenInitiators and Targets. Using Storage Manager for SANs, you can configureone-way or mutual Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)authentication between the Initiator and Targets, and you can also configureInternet Protocol security (IPsec) data encryption.NOTE: It is recommended that you use CHAP if the iSCSI traffic uses thepublic network.Known Issues• Event generated while dismounting a virtual disk—When you dismount alocally mounted virtual disk, the following event may be generated in thesystem log:Plugplaymanager 12 event:The device 'MSFT 00000000F852A09D SCSI DiskDevice'(SCSI\Disk&Ven_MSFT&Prod_00000000F852A09D\1&2afd7d61&3&000003) disappeared from the system withoutfirst being prepared for removal.It is safe to ignore these events for normalMicrosoft iSCSI Software Target dismountoperations.• Rollback operations on a locally mounted virtual disk—When you mounta virtual disk locally in read/write mode, any rollback operation performedon that virtual disk takes a long time to complete.• Termination of rollback—Disabling a virtual disk during a rollbackterminates the rollback operation without a warning. An event is loggeddocumenting that the rollback was ended.• Locally mounted virtual disks are listed in available drives—When youcreate a new virtual disk, the locally mounted virtual disks are displayed inthe list of available volumes to host the new virtual disk. A locally mountedvirtual disk does not support storing a virtual disk. If you attempt to selectthe locally mounted virtual disk as the storage location for the new virtualdisk, the following error message is displayed: