Iscsi High Availability; Transparent Target Failover; Iscsi High Availability With Host Running Multi-Path Software - Cisco MDS 9000 series Configuration Manual

Chapter 4 Configuring iSCSI
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iSCSI High Availability

The following high availability features are available for iSCSI configurations:
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Transparent Target Failover

The following high availability configurations are available:
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iSCSI High Availability with Host Running Multi-Path Software

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multi-path software. In this scenario, the host has four iSCSI sessions. There are two iSCSI sessions from
each host NIC to the two IPS ports.
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Transparent Target Failover, page 4-59
Multiple IPS Ports Connected to the Same IP Network, page 4-63
VRRP-Based High Availability, page 4-64
Ethernet PortChannel-Based High Availability, page 4-65
iSCSI high availability with host running multi-path software
iSCSI high availability with host not having multi-path software
shows the physical and logical topology for an iSCSI HA solution for hosts running
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