General Management With Qconvergeconsole; Configuring Iscsi Offload With Qconvergeconsole - Dell Qlogic QME8242 User Manual

3–Adapter Management Applications

General Management with QConvergeConsole

General Management with QConvergeConsole
Use the QConvergeConsole utility to manage the QME8242 as follows:
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Configuring iSCSI Offload with QConvergeConsole

 Configuring iSCSI Initiators with QConvergeConsole
Enabling CHAP Authentication with QConvergeConsole
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Configuring iSCSI Offload with QConvergeConsole
The iSCSI offload feature provides full iSCSI offloads that include header and data
digest, receive Protocol Data Unit (PDU) parsing, and direct data placement. You
can configure iSCSI offload parameters with the following utilities:
 QConvergeConsole GUI: graphical user interface
 QConvergeConsole CLI: interactive mode (menu driven) and non-interactive
mode (command-line driven)
NOTE:
For an overview of the GUI version of QLogic's QConvergeConsole utility,
see
version is provided in the QConvergeConsole User's Guide. All procedural
information for the utility is covered in the online help system.
For the interactive mode of the QConvergeConsole CLI, refer to the
QConvergeConsole CLI User's Guide. For the non-interactive mode of the
QConvergeConsole CLI, refer to the procedures in this section to display and
modify the following:
 Adapter-Level iSCSI Parameters
 Port-Level iSCSI Parameters
 Summary of Target Sessions
 Target Session-Level iSCSI Negotiated Parameters
 Target Session-Level Persistent iSCSI Parameters
NOTE:
The current release does not support iSCSI IPv6. Support is expected in a
future release.
Adapter-Level iSCSI Parameters
This section shows the commands used to display and to modify adapter-level
iSCSI parameters.
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Appendix C. Information on installing and starting the utility's GUI
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