Veritas™ Appliance iSCSI Guide
- Overview
- Understanding the appliance configurations
- Understanding NetBackup for VMware
- Configuring iSCSI
- Configuring the appliance for iSCSI
- Setting the IQN for the initiator
- Viewing the interface properties
- Configuring the interface properties
- Removing and resetting the interface properties
- About CHAP authentication
- Discovering targets by using the portal address
- About iSNS
- Discovering targets by using iSNS
- Connecting to a target
- Disconnecting the sessions with a target
- Viewing the targets
- Troubleshooting iSCSI issues and some best practices
Connecting to a target
After initiator and target connections are discovered, iSCSI initiators must be logged on to targets to establish connections and transfer data over iSCSI. Logons are persistent and connections are automatically restored if servers restart (unless the user logs off from the target).
To connect an initiator to a single target, specify the IP address of the portal and the target IQN.
To connect to a target
- Open a Secure Shell (SSH) session to log on to the appliance as an administrator.
- Navigate to the Main_Menu > Settings > iSCSI menu.
- Type the command Target Connect.
- Enter the IQN and portal address of the discovered target. A user name is required if authentication is enabled on the target.
Note the following about IQN, portal address, and user name:
The IQN can only contain numbers (0-9), letters (A-Z and a-z), colons (:), hyphens (-), and periods (.)
Example: iqn.1999-06.com.veritas:storage.lun1
The target portal address must be of the following format: <IP address/hostname>[:port]. Only IPv4 addresses are supported. The host name can be a short name or a fully qualified domain name.
Example: 192.116.116.50 or abc:3260
The user name can only contain numbers (0-9), letters (A-Z and a-z), hyphens (-), underscrores (_), and periods (.). It must begin with numbers (0-9), letters (A-Z and a-z), and underscores (_) only.
Example: john.smith
- Run the command to connect to the target. You can connect to one discovered target at a time.