Disconnecting/cleaning up iscsi devices, From initiator – Dell PowerVault NX1950 User Manual

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• Rollback—Use this option to rollback an iSCSI Virtual Disk to a previous

Snapshot. This operation uses the

temp directory located at

C:\Windows\Temp. Ensure that the temp directory contains sufficient

space to store the differential data. The rollback fails if enough space. is

not available.

a

Right-click on the snapshot and select Rollback to Snapshot. In the

pop-up message, select

Yes.

b

To check the status of rollback, go to the Devices tab. The rollback

progress is displayed in % (percentage) in the Virtual Disk section of

the middle-pane.

c

You can also abort a rollback operation. Abort a rollback, if you can

rollback to a different snapshot. Otherwise it is highly recommended

that you allow the rollback to complete.

NOTE:

If you rollback, all data on the current Virtual Disk is lost. Disconnect

all iSCSI Targets from initiator that are using this Virtual Disk. If the Virtual Disk

mounted as a read/write disk, dismount the Virtual Disk before the rollback.

Disconnecting/Cleaning Up iSCSI Devices

This section describes the procedure for cleanup operations to be performed

on iSCSI devices. You must perform the procedure cleanup operations on

both iSCSI Target and ISCSI Initiator.

From Initiator

Disconnect an active connection with Target by stopping the iSCSI

I/O operations that are running on that Target device by performing the

following steps:

1 Go to StartAll ProgramsMicrosoft iSCSI InitiatoriSCSI

Initiator PropertiesTargets tab.

2 Select the Target that is Connected and select Details.
3 The Target Properties screen appears. In the Sessions tab, select the check

box beside the Identifier and click

Logoff. The connection is disconnected.

4 In the iSCSI Initiator Properties screen, go to Persistent Targets tab and

remove entries of persistent Targets.

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