Managing initiators – Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases User Manual

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Managing Initiators

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Initiator nodes are computers that can gain access to ION Accelerator shared storage. You can
create, edit and remove initiator ports as part of your configuration.

To begin managing initiators for the ION Accelerator appliance,

1. Click the Configuration tab.

2. Click the Initiators link at the left side of the window. The Initiators screen appears, similar to

the ones shown below.

The software attempts to auto-discover initiators, so they may already appear in the Initiators
screen. Auto-discovered initiators have names that are identical to the port WWPN or IQN.

Below is a Fibre Channel example, with WWN identifiers:

Here is an iSCSI example, with IQN identifiers:

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