Load Balance Policy - Dell PowerVault NX1950 Deployment Manual

Devices Tab
The Devices tab of Target Properties screen provides generic device details
like the Virtual Disks that are associated with Target.
Click Advanced to view information about MPIO and Launch the Device
Details screen. To modify the MPIO settings, you can use the MPIO tab.
Properties Tab
The Properties tab of Target Properties screen provides information about
Target Alias, Authentication, Associated Network portals and other details of
the Target.

Load Balance Policy

To set different load balancing policies, perform the following steps after you
have established the Initiator-Target Connection:
1 Go to iSCSI Initiator properties→ Targets tab and select the Target that is
Connected→ Details→ Target Properties→ Sessions tab→ Connections.
2 The Session Connections screen appears and displays the load balancing
policy details. The default option is Round Robin. You can select the
required option from the Load Balance Policy drop-down menu to
configure the Load Balance Policy. Click Apply.
You can configure Load balancing for each connection from the different
Load Balance Policy options that are available. When you select each policy
in the Load Balance Policy field of the Connections tab, the following
descriptions are displayed on the screen.
• Fail Over Policy—The fail over policy employs one
active path and designates all other paths as
standby. The standby paths will be tried on a
round-robin approach upon failure of the active
path until an available path is found.
• Round Robin—The round robin policy attempts to
evenly distribute incoming requests to all
possible paths.
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