SANRAD I3.1.1205 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1: V-Switch

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• V-Switch Overview

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• Order of Operations

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• Manual Organization

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• CLI - Command Line Interface

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• Technical Assistance

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• CHAPTER 14: Index

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• Figure 1-1. V-Switch Network Topology

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• Table 1-1: Manual Chapter Organization

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• Table 1-2: CLI Command

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• Table 1-3: Hot Keys

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• CHAPTER 2: Installing the V-Switch 2000

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• Chassis

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• Front Panel

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• Back Panel

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• System Indicator LEDs

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• Surface Mounting

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• Rack Mounting

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• Storage Port Connections

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• Network Port Connections

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• Console Port Connection

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• Powering Up

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• Figure 2-1. V-Switch 2000 Front Panel – SCSI

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• Figure 2-2. V-Switch 2000 Front Panel – FC

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• Figure 2-3. V-Switch 2000 Back Panel

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• Figure 2-4. V-Switch 2000 LEDs – SCSI

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• Figure 2-5. V-Switch 2000 LEDs – FC

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• Figure 2-6. V-Switch 2000 SCSI Storage Ports

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• Figure 2-7. V-Switch 2000 FC Storage Ports

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• V-Switch 2000 Network Ports

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• V-Switch 2000 Console Port

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• Figure 2-10. V-Switch 2000 Power Supplies

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• Table 2-1: V-Switch 2000 LEDs

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• Table 2-2: SCSI Storage Port Connection Type

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• Table 2-3: FC Storage Port Connection Types

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• Table 2-4: Network Port Cable Connections

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• CHAPTER 3: Installing the V-Switch 3000

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• Chassis

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• Front Panel

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• Back Panel

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• System Indicator LEDs

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• Surface Mounting

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• Rack Mounting

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• Storage Port Connections

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• Network Port Connections

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• Console Port Connection

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• Management Port Connection

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• LCD

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• Compact Flash (CF) Slot

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• Scalability Port

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• Powering Up

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• Figure 3-1. V-Switch 3000 Front Panel

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• Figure 3-2. V-Switch 3000 Back Panel

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• Figure 3-3. V-Switch 3000 LEDs

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• Figure 3-4. V-Switch 3000 Storage Ports

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• Figure 3-5. V-Switch 3000 Storage Port LEDs

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• Figure 3-6. V-Switch 3000 Network Ports

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• Figure 3-7. V-Switch 3000 Console Port

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• Figure 3-8. V-Switch 3000 Management Port

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• Figure 3-9. V-Switch 3000 Management Port LEDs

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• Figure 3-10. LCD Display Panel

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• Figure 3-11. Scalability Port

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• Figure 3-12. Scalability Port LED

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• Figure 3-13. V-Switch 3000 Power Supplies

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• Table 3-1: V-Switch 3000 LEDs

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• Table 3-2: Storage Port Connection Types

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• Table 3-3: Network Port Cable Connections

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• CHAPTER 4: V-Switch Configuration

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• Introduction to Managing the V-Switch

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• Initial V-Switch Configuration

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• Assigning a Management IP Address

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• Changing Management Parameters

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• Changing General Management Parameters

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• Changing the Telnet Communications Port

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• Traps and SNMP

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• Adding User Login Profiles

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• Configuring the Storage Ports

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• Viewing SCSI Storage Ports and Bus IDs

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• Setting a SCSI Storage Port Bus ID

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• Viewing the FC Port Information

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• Configuring an FC Storage Port

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• Viewing the V-Switch World Wide Node Name

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• Configuring the Network Ports

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• Checking the IP Configurations

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• Removing an IP Address

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• Discovering iSCSI Targets

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• iSCSI Discovery Session

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• SLP

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• iSNS

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• Configuring iSCSI Portals

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• Viewing iSCSI Portals

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• Removing iSCSI Portals

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• Discovery of iSCSI Storage Devices

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• iscsi discovery rportal show

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• iscsi discovery rportal set

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• iscsi discovery rportal discover

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• iscsi discovery rportal add

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• iscsi discovery rportal remove

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• Configuring IP Routing

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• Adding an IP Route

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• Setting a Default Gateway

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• Checking IP Routes

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• Viewing IP Routes

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• Removing an IP Route

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• Figure 4-1. V-Switch Management Options

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• Figure 4-2. Terminal Properties

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• Figure 4-3. Ethernet Port 1 IP Address

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• Figure 4-4. V-Switch IP Adresses

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• Figure 4-5. Ethernet Port 3 with One IP Address

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• Figure 4-6. IP Routing Options

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• Table 4-1: V-Switch Configuration

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• Table 4-2: V Switch Interfaces

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• Table 4-3: V-Switch IP Configuration Table

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• Table 4-4: iSNS Servers

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• Table 4-5: iSCSI Portals

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• Table 4-6: V-Switch IP Routing Paths

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• CHAPTER 5: V-Switch Cluster Configuration

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• Introduction to V-Switch Clusters

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• Configuring a V-Switch Cluster

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• Setting the V-Switch ID

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• Adding a Neighbor

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• Working with SCSI Storage Devices

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• Maintaining Cluster Communications

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• Enabling and Disabling Failover

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• Further V-Switch Cluster Configurations

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• Viewing V-Switch Neighbor Details

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• Managing a Cluster

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• Figure 5-1. V-Switch Cluster Configuration

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• Re-routing Storage Access with Off-line V-Switch

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• Cluster with Neighbor IP Addresses

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• Table 5-1: Neighbors in a Cluster

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• Table 5-2: Neighbor Details

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• CHAPTER 6: Volume Configuration

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• Introduction to Volume Configuration

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• Identifying Available Storage Devices

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• Creating a Transparent Volume

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• Creating a Subdisk (LUN Carving)

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• Creating a Simple Volume

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• Creating a Concatenated Volume

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• Creating a Striped Volume

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• Creating a Mirrored Volume

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• Replicating Data in a Mirrored Volume

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• Creating a RAID 10 and RAID 0+1

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• Physical Storage used in Examples

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• Transparent Volume 1

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• Partitioning a Physical Volume

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• Disk 1 before Subdisk

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• Disk 1 with 1 Subdisk

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• Disk 1 with 2 Subdisks

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• Simple Volume Block Distribution

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• Simple Volume 1

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• Concatenated Volume Block Distribution

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• Concatenated Volume 1

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• Striped Volume Block Distribution

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• Striped Volume 1

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• Mirrored Volume Block Distribution

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• Mirrored Volume 1

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• RAID 10 Volume Block Distribution

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• First Mirrored Volume of RAID 10

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• Second Mirrored Volume of RAID 10

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• Striped Volume of RAID 10

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• Table 6-1: Storage Devices

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• Table 6-2: Storage Details

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• Table 6-3: Volume Details

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• Table 6-4: Details of all Subdisks

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• CHAPTER 7: Volume Exposure & Security

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• Introduction to Volume Exposure & Security

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• iSCSI Targets

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• Identities

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• Access Rights

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• Authentication

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• Default Identity

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• Creating an iSCSI Target

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• Viewing iSCSI Targets

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• Viewing iSCSI Target Details

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• Viewing Access Rights

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• Changing the Default Identity

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• Creating an Identity

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• Adding Initiators to an Identity

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• Assigning Identity Credentials

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• Using a RADIUS Server

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• Viewing Configured RADIUS Servers

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• Connecting an Identity and Target

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• Exposing an iSCSI Target and LUN

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• Viewing LUNs

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• iSCSI Target Access

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• Identity A’s iSCSI Initiators

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• Identity B’s iSCSI Initiators

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• Identity C’s iSCSI Initiator

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• Identities Coupled with Targets

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• Access Rights per Identity-Target Pair

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• iSCSI Initiator in Two Different Identities

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• Identity with iSCSI Initiators and Credentials

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• Modifying Default Identities

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• Creating a Target

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• Creating an Identity

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• Adding an Initiator

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• Adding a Second Initiator

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• Assigning Credentials

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• Adding Another Set of Credentials

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• Sending a CHAP Authentication Challenge

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• Logging in to a RADIUS Server

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• Connecting a Target and Identity

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• Exposing a Volume

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• Table 7-1: iSCSI Targets

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• Table 7-2: iSCSI Target Details

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• Table 7-3: Default Identity Target Access

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• Table 7-4: Identity Details

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• Table 7-5: Configured RADIUS IP Addresses

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• Table 7-6: Details of all LUNs

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• CHAPTER 8: Advanced Volume Operations

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• Introduction to Advanced Volume Configurations

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• Data Replication: Off-line versus On-line

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• Mirror versus Snapshot

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• Actual Capacity versus Potential Capacity

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• Resizing versus Expanding

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• Copying a Volume (Off-line Copy)

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• Synchronizing a Volume

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• Adding a Child to a Mirror (On-line Copy)

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• Creating a Snapshot

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• Deactivating and Activating a Snapshot Volume

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• Viewing Snapshot Volumes

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• Snapshot Rollback

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• volume snapshot rollback show

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• volume snapshot rollback start

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• volume snapshot rollback abort

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• Breaking a Mirror

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• Resizing a Volume

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• Retracting a Volume

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• Expanding a Volume

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• Adding Another Child to a Mirror

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• Creating a Mirror to Add Data Redundancy

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• Adding Sim6 to Mir4

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• 1st Snapshot Created

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• 1st Write to Source and Update to 1st Snapshot

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• 1st Snapshot

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• Update to 1st Snapshot & 1st Write to Source

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• 3rd Snapshot Created, Update to 1st & 2nd Snapshot and Write to Source

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• Removing a Child from a Mirror

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• Breaking a Mirror

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• Removing Sim5 from Mir1

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• Asymetrical Mirrored Volume

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• Creating a Cube

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• Resized Volume

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• Further Resizing on the Same Volume

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• Resizing a Concatenated Volume

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• Resizing Mirrored Child

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• Expanding a Concatenated Volume

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• Expanding a Mirrored Volume

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• Expanding XSim2

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• Table 8-1: All Snapshot Volumes

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• Table 8-2: All Snapshots of a Specific Volume

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• CHAPTER 9: Routine Volume Maintenance

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• Volumes

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• Renaming a Volume

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• Removing a Volume

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• Removing all Volumes in a Hierarchy

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• Replacing a Volume

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• Synchronizing a Volume

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• Targets and Exposure

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• Removing an LU

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• Changing iSCSI Target Parameters

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• Removing an iSCSI Target

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• Removing a RADIUS Server

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• Removing an iSNS Server

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• Stripe 1 Volume Removed

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• Stripe 1 Volume and Supporting Hierarchy Removed

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• CHAPTER 10: Routine V-Switch Maintenance

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• General Configuration Parameters

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• Telnet Port

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• SNMP Manager

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• Setting an SNMP Manager

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• Removing an SNMP Manager

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• iSNS Server

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• Adding an iSNS Server

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• Removing an iSNS Server

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• User Profiles

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• Adding a User Profile

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• Changing a User Profile

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• Removing a User Profile

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• V-Switch

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• Resetting a V-Switch

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• Saving (Uploading) a V-Switch Database File

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• Downloading a V-Switch Configuration File

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• Network Interfaces

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• Changing an Interface Alias

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• Adding an Interface IP Address

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• Removing an Interface IP Address

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• IP Routing

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• Adding an IP route

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• Removing an IP route

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• Disks and Subdisks

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• Discovering Storage Devices

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• Renaming a Storage Device

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• Removing a Storage Device

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• Renaming a Subdisk

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• Removing a Subdisk

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• Clusters

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• Modifying Neighbor Parameters

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• Removing a Neighbor

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• Modifying a Cluster

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• Enabling and Disabling Failover

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• V-Switch 3000 Power Supply

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• Upgrading the V-Switch Software

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• V-Switch 3000 Compact Flash

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• Safe Mode

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• Automatic Safe Mode

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• Exporting a Corrupted Database

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• Manual Safe Mode

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• Adding an Interface IP Address

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• Removing an IP Address

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• Replacing a Power Supply

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• Table 10-1: V-Switch Configuration

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• CHAPTER 11: Command Line Interface

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• V Switch Configuration

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• admin show

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• admin add

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• admin remove

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• admin password

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• system reset

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• system reset_default_factory

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• info

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• device set

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• device set -telnet

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• device advance set

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• device advance show

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• fc interface show

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• fc node show

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• fc set speed

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• interface show

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• interface details

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• interface set

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• pscsi show

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• pscsi set busid

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• snmp manager show

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• snmp manager add

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• device set

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• snmp manager remove

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• ip config show

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• ip config set

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• ip config remove

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• ip route default

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• ip route add

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• ip route show

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• ip route remove

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• ip isns show

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• ip isns add

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• ip isns remove

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• neighbor add

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• neighbor set

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• neighbor show

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• neighbor details

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• neighbor remove

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• cluster show

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• cluster set

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• cluster failover enable

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• cluster failover disable

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• ft show

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• ft upload software

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• ft download

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• ft export problem

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• system boot

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• system set

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• system copy

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• system show

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• Volume Configuration

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• storage discovery

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• storage blink activate

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• storage blink abort

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• storage show

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• storage disk show

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• storage disk set

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• storage alias

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• storage details

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• storage set

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• storage remove

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• subdisk create

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• subdisk show

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• subdisk details

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• subdisk alias

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• subdisk set

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• subdisk remove

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• volume show

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• volume details

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• volume alias

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• volume hierarchy

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• volume create simple

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• volume create transparent

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• volume create mirror

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• volume create concatenated

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• volume create striped

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• volume set

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• volume remove

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• volume remove -all

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• volume replace

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• volume mirror sync show

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• volume mirror sync start

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• volume mirror sync abort

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• volume copy create

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• volume copy show

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• volume copy abort

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• volume mirror add

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• volume mirror break

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• volume resize

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• volume retract

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• volume expand

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• volume create snapshot

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• volume snapshot show

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• volume snapshot list

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• volume snapshot rollback show

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• volume snapshot rollback start

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• volume snapshot rollback abort

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• Volume Exposure

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• iscsi portal show

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• iscsi portal create

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• iscsi portal remove

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• iscsi target show

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• iscsi target details

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• iscsi target create

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• iscsi target alias

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• iscsi target set

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• iscsi target remove

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• iscsi target authentication

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• iscsi session show

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• iscsi session details

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• iscsi session statistics

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• iscsi session connection show

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• iscsi session connection details

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• scsi target port statistics

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• iscsi rinitiator show

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• iscsi rinitiator list

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• iscsi rinitiator statistics show

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• iscsi discovery rportal show

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• iscsi discovery rportal set

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• iscsi discovery rportal discover

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• iscsi discovery rportal add

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• iscsi discovery rportal remove

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• acl show

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• acl details

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• acl add

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• acl set

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• acl rem

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• acl identity show

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• acl identity details

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• acl identity create

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• acl identity delete

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• acl identity add name

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• acl identity remove name

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• acl identity add chap

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• acl identity remove chap

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• acl identity add srp

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• acl identity remove srp

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• acl identity set

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• acl up

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• acl down

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• ip radius show

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• ip radius add

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• ip radius set

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• ip radius remove

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• volume expose –new

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• volume expose

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• lu show

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• lu details

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• lu remove

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• lu statistics show

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• Monitoring and Statistics

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• system hardware show

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• interface statistics show

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• interface statistics details

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• ip statistics ip show

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• ip statistics icmp show

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• tcp connection show

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• tcp statistics show

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• udp listeners show

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• udp statistics show

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• Table 11-1: Hot Keys

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• Table 11-2: Administrator User Names

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• Table 11-3: iSCSI V Switch Configuration

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• Table 11-4: V Switch Interfaces

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• Table 11-5: Interface Details

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• Table 11-6: Parallel SCSI Device Bus IDs

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• Table 11-7: V Switch SNMP Managers

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• Table 11-8: V Switch IP Configurations

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• Table 11-9: iSNS Servers

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• Neighbors in a Cluster

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• Table 11-11: Neighbor Details

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• Table 11-12: Cluster Table

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• Table 11-13: File Transfer Configuration

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• Storage Devices

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• Table 11-15: Storage Disks

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• Table 11-16: Storage Aliases

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• Table 11-17: Storage Details

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• Table 11-18: Details of all Subdisks

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• Details of a Specified Subdisk

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• Table 11-20: Subdisk Aliases

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• Table 11-21: Volume Details of all Volumes

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• Table 11-22: Specific Volume Details

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• Volume Aliases

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• Table 11-24: Volume Hierarchy

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• Table 11-25: iSCSI Portals

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• iSCSI Targets

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• Table 11-27:

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• Table 11-28: iSCSI Target Aliases

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• iSCSI Sessions

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• Table 11-30: Basic iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 11-31: Advanced iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 11-32: CRP iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 11-33: TXRX iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 11-34: Error iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 11-35: iSCSI Session Connections

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• Table 11-36: iSCSI Session Connection Details

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• Table 11-37: Advanced iSCSI Session Connection Details

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• Table 11-38: SCSI Target Port Statistics

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• Table 11-39: Remote iSCSI Initiators

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• Table 11-40: Remote iSCSI Initiators for a Specific Target

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• Table 11-41: Target Access per Identity

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• Table 11-42: Access Control per Target

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• Table 11-43: iSCSI Initiators in an Identity

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• Identity Details

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• Table 11-45: RADIUS Server IP Addresses

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• Table 11-46: Details of all LUNs

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• Table 11-47: LUN Details

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• Table 11-48: LU Statistics

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• Table 11-49: System Hardware

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• Table 11-50: Interface Statistics Overview

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• Table 11-51: Interface Details

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• Table 11-52: IP Counter Statistics

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• Table 11-53: ICMP Counter Statistics

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• Table 11-54: TCP Connections

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• Table 11-55: TCP Statistics

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• Table 11-56: UDP Listeners

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• Table 11-57: UDP Statistics

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• CHAPTER 12: Monitoring & Statistics

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• Health Monitoring

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• system hardware show

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• Interface Statistics

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• interface statistics show

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• interface statistics details

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• TCP/IP Statistics

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• ip statistics ip show

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• ip statistics icmp show

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• tcp connection show

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• tcp statistics show

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• udp listeners show

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• udp statistics show

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• iSCSI Session Statistics

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• iscsi session show

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• iscsi session details

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• iscsi session statistics

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• iSCSI Connection Statistics

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• iscsi session connection show

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• iscsi session connection details

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• SCSI Port Statistics

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• scsi target port statistics

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• Remote iSCSI Initiator Statistics

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• iscsi rinitiator show

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• iscsi rinitiator list

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• iscsi rinitiator statistics show

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• Logical Unit (LU) Statistics

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• Table 12-1: System Hardware

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• Table 12-2: Interface Statistics Overview

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• Table 12-3: Interface Statistics Details

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• Table 12-4: IP Statistics

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• Table 12-5: ICMP Statistics

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• Table 12-6: TCP Connections

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• Table 12-7: TCP Statistics

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• Table 12-8: UDP Statistics

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• Table 12-9: iSCSI Sessions

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• Table 12-10: Basic iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 12-11: Advanced iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 12-12: CRP iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 12-13: TXRX iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 12-14: Error iSCSI Session Details

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• Table 12-15: iSCSI Session Connections

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• Table 12-16: iSCSI Session Connection Details

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• Table 12-17: Advanced iSCSI Session Connection Details

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• Table 12-18: SCSI/iSCSI Initiator Port Statistics

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• Table 12-19: All Connected Remote iSCSI Initiators

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• Table 12-20: Connected Remote iSCSI Initiators on a Target

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• Table 12-21: LU Statistics

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