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Appendix

Scalability Guidelines

Table 3 lists scalability guidelines to consider when constructing iSCSI solutions on the FC4-16IP.

TABLE 3 iSCSI target gateway scalability guidelines

Object Maximum

# iSCSI sessions per port 64

# iSCSI ports per FC4-16IP blade 8

# iSCSI blades in a switch 4

# iSCSI sessions per FC4-16IP blade 512

# iSCSI sessions per switch 1024

# TCP connections per switch 1024

# TCP connections per iSCSI session 2

# iSCSI sessions per fabric 4096

# TCP connections per fabric 4096

# iSCSI targets per fabric 4096

# CHAP entries per fabric 4096

# LUNs per iSCSI target 256

# members per discovery domain 64

# discovery domains per discovery domain set 4096

# discovery domain sets 4

# usernames per virtual target 16