Setting The Mpio Load Balancing Policy; Target Portal Value Remains Default - HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual

7. Configure the Advanced Settings as follows:
• For Local adaptor, select Microsoft iSCSI initiator.
• For Source IP, select the IP address of the storage NIC to connect to the volume.
• For Target portal, leave as Default so that the Discovery list of VIPs is used in the same order
on all storage systems.
Figure 8 Target portal value remains Default
.
8. After setting the values, click OK to close the Advanced Settings dialog.
9. Click OK again to finish logging on.
10. If you want to set the MPIO load balancing policy, see
policy" on page 17.
11. If you have multiple NICs, repeat steps

Setting the MPIO load balancing policy

When you connect application servers to volumes, you can also set the MPIO load balancing policy
in the iSCSI Initiator.
The MPIO load balancing policy affects the number of iSCSI connections created to the volume. The
number of connections also differs based on whether you are using the P4000 DSM for MPIO or the
Microsoft DSM.
with applications servers that have two NICs.
Figure 9 on page 18 through
"Setting the MPIO load balancing
Step 1 through Step 10
Figure 12 on page 19 show the connections created
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for the additional NICs.
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