Assigning Wwns To Islb Initiators; Making The Dynamic Islb Initiator Wwn Mapping Static; Assigning Vsan Membership For Islb Initiators - HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Configuring iSLB
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Assigning WWNs to iSLB Initiators

An iSLB host is mapped to an N port's WWNs by one of the following mechanisms:
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Note Assigning WWNs for iSLB initiators is the same as for iSCSI initiators. For information on dynamic and
static mapping, see the
We recommend using the SystemAssign option. If you manually assign a WWN, you must ensure its
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uniqueness (see the
assigned WWNs.
See the

Making the Dynamic iSLB Initiator WWN Mapping Static

After a dynamic iSLB initiator has logged in, you may decide to permanently keep the automatically
assigned nWWN/pWWN mapping to allow this initiator to use the same mapping the next time it logs
in (see the
You can convert a dynamic iSLB initiator to a static iSLB initiator and make its WWNs persistent.
Note Making the dynamic mapping for iSLB initiators static is the same as for iSCSI. See the
Dynamic iSLB Initiator WWN Mapping Static" section on page
Note Only statically mapped iSLB initiator configuration is distributed throughout the fabric using CFS.
Dynamically and statically configured iSCSI initiator configurations are not distributed.
See the

Assigning VSAN Membership for iSLB Initiators

Individual iSLB hosts can be configured to be in a specific VSAN (similar to the DPVM feature for Fibre
Channel; see
VSAN overrides the iSCSI interface VSAN membership.
Specifying the iSLB initiator VSAN is the same as for an iSCSI initiator. See the
Note
for iSCSI" section on page
When an iSLB initiator is configured in any other VSAN (other than VSAN 1, the default VSAN), for
Note
example VSAN 2, the initiator is automatically removed from VSAN 1. If you also want it to be present
in VSAN 1, you must explicitly configure the initiator in VSAN 1.
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Static mapping
"WWN Assignment for iSCSI Initiators" section on page
"World Wide Names" section on page
"Configuring iSLB using Device Manager" procedure on page
"Dynamic Mapping" section on page
"Configuring iSLB using Device Manager" procedure on page
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