Step 5: Continuing To Build Your Ip San; Step 6: Logging In To The Iscsi Storage - Adaptec 5325302057 User Manual

Step 5: Continuing to Build Your IP SAN

Adaptec Storage Manager begins to build the logical device(s). The wizard closes.
For more information about logical devices, see "Creating and Modifying Logical
Devices" on page 98.
Before you can begin to use the iSCSI storage, you must log in to the logical
devices (iSCSI targets), then partition and format them. See "Step 6: Logging in to
the iSCSI Storage" on page 46 for instructions.
Step 5: Continuing to Build Your IP SAN
To add or configure another appliance, create more pools, or provision more
storage, re-open the wizard by right-clicking the Management Service in the
Enterprise View, then selecting
For more information on each task, follow the instructions in this chapter or see
"Modifying Your iSCSI Storage" on page 85.

Step 6: Logging in to the iSCSI Storage

If all the systems on your IP SAN are iSCSI Storage Hosts, skip to "Step 7:
Registering Your iSCSI Storage Appliance" on page 47.
If you have systems on your IP SAN running Windows XP, Linux, or VMware, the
next step is to log in to the logical devices from those systems, then partition and
format the logical devices. Log-in varies by iSCSI initiator and OS; for complete
instructions, refer to the documentation provided with your iSCSI initiator and
system.
The basic steps are:
Run the iSCSI initiator's management tool.
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Point the initiator to the IP address of an iSCSI port on your iSCSI Storage
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Appliance (set in Step 4 on page 37).
Discover the iSCSI target that you want to access from the local system. (The
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iSCSI targets are the logical devices you created in "Provisioning Storage
Manually" on page 42.
Log in to the iSCSI target.
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Partition and format the logical device on the local system, just as you would any
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new locally installed disk drive.
Repeat these steps for each system on your IP SAN that is not running Windows
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2003. When you are finished, continue with "Step 7: Registering Your iSCSI
Storage Appliance" on page 47.
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