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19.
Supports a maximum of 128 targets per box (including 2 system-generated
targets: mtarget and smatarget)
20.
Supports 32 LUNs per Target.
21.
Supports ISCSI Error recovery level 0 and 1
22.
Supports fine tuning of ISCSI parameters from UI
23.
ISCSI traffic can be enabled or disabled on a per NIC basis
24.
Supports CHAP based iSCSI authentication
25.
ISCSI Authentication based on iSCSI Initiator WWN/FQDN
26.
ISCSI Authentication based on local StorTrends iTX username and password
27.
Supports mutual CHAP a.k.a Bi-directional authentication
28.
Support for StorTrends iTX 3100i 3U SATA box (Broadcom Controller)
29.
The Broadcom Hardware RAID controller supports RAID Levels 0, 1,
1N, 10, 10N, 5, 50 and online RAID transformation & expansion,
Distributed, Dedicated and Global spares management and Cache settings.
30.
Hardware RAID events from Broadcom (disk removal, RAID degradation etc)
31.
Supports UPS Master/Slave mode,
32.
Network teaming supporting Round Robin, Balance TLB and 802.3ad modes.
33.
Automatic Write back to Write through cache settings on UPS event
generation
34.
Auto shutdown of box when CPU/System temperature reaches high critical
threshold.
35.
NAS & SAN read only and read write snapshots can be activated and mounted
36.
Broadcom Hardware Auto RAID Rebuild support
37.
Web based Configuration
38.
iSCSI Tape Support. Any Tape device connected through SCSI can be attached to
an iSCSI target.
39.
Support for Multiple UPS models. The supported models are
a. APC Smart-UPS 1000
b. EATON Powerware 5125
Known Limitations/Issues in 2.6.0006:
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Hardware
1. Pulling a USB CD-ROM may cause a kernel oops.
2. When creating a Network Team, the MAC address of the bond is always that of the NIC-
1, irrespective of the NIC specified as Primary for the team.
3. System auto shutdown based on FAN sensors is not supported.
4. 3U: Always install ITX stack with Broadcom read-only cache.
5. While creating a Network Team, network connection will go down for few seconds
6. XFS soft panic at xfs_alloc_read_agf(). It is a known issue in XFS. It is due to XFS
metadata corruption. When this happen, the IO will be still going on. But next time
when ITX is restarted, XFS repair will take long time (depends on file system size)
and some of the file will be lost.
7. Read performance is reduced in Balance RR mode. This is a known issue with
Balance_RR teaming mode due to TCP congestion control problems in network. A managed
switch with proper configuration might fix this issue.
8. Supermicro 3U systems: the Mute button and the BIOS option for 4-second override are
not supported.
9. Broadcom 3U: even if 2 out of the 3 power supplies fail, you will only get a
single event entry regarding the failures.
11.
Daylight Savings time: the new DST guidelines effective in 2007, whereby the time
changes occur in March and November, instead of the traditional April and October
dates, are not supported in this release.
12.
The iTX software supports both DHCP and Static IP addresses, but it is strongly
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