HP 1.10GB Virtual Connect Ethernet Module for c-Class BladeSystem User Manual

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Description

for authenticating initiators and targets. CHAP is one-way authentication; the iSCSI

target authenticates the initiator. The initiators ‘username’ and ‘secret’ are required.

CHAPM (two-way)

Two-way CHAP. The initiator and target perform two-way authentication. The initiators

‘username’ and ‘secret’ and targets ‘username’ and ‘secret’ are required for
authentication.

Username

The user name for authentication when the authentication type is CHAP or CHAPM. The

maximum length is 223 characters.

Secret

The secret password for CHAP or CHAPM authentication. It can be a string or a long
hex value (starting with ‘0x’). The value must be at least 12 bytes (or 24 hex digits) and

at most 16 bytes (or 32 hex digits).

Mutual Username

Mutual username for CHAPM authentication

Mutual Secret

The secret password for CHAPM authentication

To use DHCP when configuring the iSCSI boot configuration, Select the Use DHCP checkbox.

Selecting this option requires a DHCP server to be set up with iSCSI extensions to provide boot parameters

to servers. The DHCP Vendor ID is offered by the initiator to the DHCP server to retrieve the iSCSI boot
configured data. For more information, see the documentation that ships with the DHCP server and "DHCP

option 43 (on page

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