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
About the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN)
In an iSCSI network, each iSCSI element that uses the network has a unique iSCSI name and is assigned an address for access. Each iSCSI element, whether an initiator or target, is identified by a unique iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN). The IQN is a logical name that is not linked to an IP address.
The IQN has the following properties:
It is unique. No two initiators or targets can have the same name.
It can be up to 255 characters long.
It can only contain numbers (0-9), letters (A-Z and a-z), colons (:), hyphens (-), and periods (.).
A sample IQN format is iqn.yyyy-mm.naming-authority:unique name where:
yyyy-mm is the year and month when the naming authority was established.
naming-authority is usually reverse syntax of the Internet domain name of the naming authority.
Unique name is any name you want to use, for example, the name of your host. The naming authority must make sure that any names assigned following the colon are unique.
Example: iqn.1999-06.com.veritas:abc