Iscsi Fc Zone Creation; Creating An Iscsi Fc Zone - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

iSCSI FC zone creation

To create an iSCSI FC zone, you must include the following iSCSI elements in the zone:
• The FC targets, used to create the virtual targets (VT).
• The iSCSI virtual initiators (VIs):
• If there is more than one FC4- 1 6IP blade in the chassis, you must add all virtual initiators to the
same zone.
• If there is more than one FC4- 1 6IP blade in the fabric, you must add all virtual initiators from all
switches to the same zone.
• If connection redirection is not used, only the VI correlating to the iSCSI target portal used by the
hosts needs to be used.
• If connection redirection is used all 8 VIs for the FC4- 1 6IP blade must be used.
• If the iSCSI hosts are accessing the VT from more than one FC4- 1 6IP blade in the chassis (MPIO),
you must add all virtual initiators to the same zone.
• If the iSCSI hosts are accessing the VT from more than one FC4- 1 6IP blade in the fabric (MPIO), you
must add all virtual initiators from all switches to the same zone.
Although you can add the iSCSI FC target and virtual initiator to an existing zone, it is advisable to create
a separate zone so that iSCSI gateway service components can be easily differentiated from other devices
in SAN fabric zones.
In order to more easily handle groups of targets and initiators, you can create aliases for each group. You
can create aliases, add and remove members from an alias, and delete aliases. These operations function
the same way with iSCSI as they do without. To learn more about these operations, see
page 195 and the aliCreate command in the Fabric OS Command Reference.
The following procedures describe the commands to run to get the iSCSI information you must provide
during the zone creation process.
IMPORTANT:
attempting to configure zones. The 4/256 SAN Director must have the zoning license installed.

Creating an iSCSI FC zone

1. Log in to the Director.
2. Issue the iscsiCfg --show command to display the WWN information for the FC targets:
switch:admin> iscsicfg --show lun
Number of targets found: 2
Target: iqn.2006-10.com.example:disk001
Number of LUN Maps: 2
FC WWN
21:00:00:04:cf:e7:73:7e
2f:ff:00:06:2b:0d:12:99
Target: iqn.2002-10.com.brocade:21:00:00:04:cf:e7:74:cf
Number of LUN Maps: 1
FC WWN
21:00:00:04:cf:e7:74:cf
switch:admin>
3. Write down or copy and paste the FC WWN information for each LUN, which you will need during
the zone creation process.
You must install Advanced Zoning licenses on all the switches in the fabric before
Virtual LUN(s) Physical LUN(s)
0 0
1-2 0-1
Virtual LUN(s) Physical LUN(s)
0 0x0000000000000000
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