Dell PowerVault MD3000i Information Update page 6

Figure 1. Initiator Configuration
iSCSI initiator
network interfaces
if1
IP Network 1
P0 P1
controller 0
MD3000i
Two sessions with one TCP connection are configured from the host to each
controller (one session per port), for a total of four sessions. The multi-path
failover driver will balance I/O access across the sessions to the ports on the
same controller. In a duplex configuration, with virtual disks on each
controller, creating sessions using each of the iSCSI data ports of both
controllers increases bandwidth and provides load-balancing.
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host
if2
IP Network 2
P0 P1
controller 1
IP Addresses
Host
If1: IP_Addr_If1
If2: IP_Addr_If2
MD3000i Controller 0
P0: IP_Addr_C0_P0
P1: IP_Addr_C0_P1
MD3000i Controller 1
P0: IP_Addr_C1_P0
P1: IP_Addr_C1_P1
TCP Connections
To MD3000i Controller 0
T01: IP_Addr_If1 / IP_Addr_C0_P0
T02: IP_Addr_If2 / IP_Addr_C1_P1
To MD3000i Controller 1
T11: IP_Addr_If1 / IP_Addr_C1_P0
T12: IP_Addr_If2 / IP_Addr_C1_P1
iSCSI Sessions
To MD3000i Controller 0
Session 00: T01
Session 01: T02
To MD3000i Controller 1
Session 10: T11
Session 11: T12