Iscsi Initiator Rules, Guidelines, And Support; General Iscsi Initiator Rules And Guidelines; Apple Mac Os X Iscsi Initiator Rules And Guidelines; Microsoft Windows Iscsi Initiator Rules And Guidelines - HP EVA P6000 User Manual

Table 14 Operating system and multipath software support
Operating system
Apple Mac OS X
Microsoft Windows
Server 2008, 2003,
Hyper-V
Red Hat Linux, SUSE
Linux
Solaris
VMware

iSCSI initiator rules, guidelines, and support

This section describes the following iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines.

General iSCSI initiator rules and guidelines

The following are the iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines.
iSCSI Initiators and iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE ports can reside in different IP subnets. This requires
setting the iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE module's gateway feature. See
for more information.
Both single path and multipath initiators are supported on the same iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE
modules.
Fibre Channel LUNs and iSCSI LUNs are not supported on the same server.

Apple Mac OS X iSCSI initiator rules and guidelines

The Apple Mac OS X iSCSI initiator supports the following:
Power PC and Intel Power Mac G5, Xserve, Mac Pro
ATTO Technology Mac driver
iSNS
CHAP
iSCSI Initiator operating system considerations:
Host mode setting – Apple Mac OS X
Multipathing is not supported

Microsoft Windows iSCSI Initiator rules and guidelines

The Microsoft Windows iSCSI Initiator supports the following:
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator versions 2.08, 2.07
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator for Windows 2008, Vista, and Windows 7
Multipath on iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE module single or dual controller configurations
80 iSCSI or iSCSI/FCoE configuration rules and guidelines
Multipath software Clusters
None None
MPIO with HP DSM MSCS
MPIO with Microsoft
DSM
Device Mapper None
Solaris MPxIO None
VMware MPxIO None
Connectivity EVA storage system
iSCSI EVA4400/4400 with the embedded
switch
iSCSI, FCoE
EVA4000/4100/6000/6 100/8000/8100
EVA6400/8400
P6300/P6500
iSCSI, FCoE
iSCSI
iSCSI, FCoE
"set mgmt command" (page 218)