Dell PowerVault NX3000 User Manual

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Target Details

Go to Advanced Identifier

→ Add→ Add/Edit Identifier→

Identifier Type and select either IQN, DNS Domain Name, IP
address, or MAC Address to add the Initiator identifier. Figure A-5
uses the IP address to identify the iSCSI Initiator. You can use the
Browse option to choose the value from the list of available
Targets.

NOTE:

It is recommended that you use IQN as the Identifier.

The PowerVault NAS Management Console now displays the
newly-created iSCSI Target. The PowerVault NAS Management Console
also displays the devices available for the iSCSI Targets. The storage that
are used by the iSCSI Initiators (application hosts) are defined in a later
step when the virtual disks are created.

5 Creating and assigning virtual disks to the Target—You must create virtual

disks on the iSCSI Targets for Microsoft-based iSCSI Target solutions.
The virtual disks represent the storage volumes that the iSCSI Initiators
use. The maximum capacity represented by all the virtual disks on a given
iSCSI Target on a Microsoft-based iSCSI Target solution is 16 terabytes
(16 TB) per Target.

The following procedure describes how to create a virtual disk. In this
example, a 100 GB virtual disk and a 200 GB virtual disk are created on the
iSCSI Target. The iSCSI Initiators identify these two virtual disks as
volumes over the TCP/IP network.

a

Right-click on the Target name to launch the Create Virtual Disk Wizard.

b

Click Next. The File screen appears.

Create the virtual disk on the internal disk volume (the RAID volumes
available from the attached storage array) that is available to the
iSCSI Target.

NOTE:

In the File screen, use the Browse option to choose the internal disk

volume using browse and enter a name for virtual disk file with a .vhd extension.

c

Click Next. The Size screen is displayed.

The size of the virtual disk depends on the needs of the application on
the host server.

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