Deployment Guide

60 Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
3 If you are using mutual CHAP authentication :
a Click the General tab.
b Select Secret.
c At the Enter a secure secret window, enter the mutual CHAP secret
you entered for the storage array.
4 Click the Discovery tab.
5 Under Target Portals , select the IP address of the iSCSI port on the storage
array and click
Remove .
The iSCSI port you configured on the storage array during target discovery
should disappear. You will reset this IP address under CHAP
authentication in the steps that immediately follow.
6 Under Target Portals , click Add and re-enter the IP address or DNS name
of the iSCSI port on the storage array (removed above).
7 Click Advanced and set the following values on the General tab:
•
Local Adapter : Must always be set to Microsoft iSCSI Initiator .
•
Source IP : The source IP address of the host you want to connect
with.
•
Data Digest and Header Digest : Optionally, you can specify that a
digest of data or header information be compiled during transmission
to assist in troubleshooting.
•
CHAP logon information : Enter the target CHAP authentication
username and secret you entered (for the host server) on the storage
array.
•
Perform mutual authentication : If mutual CHAP authentication is
configured, select this option.
NOTE: IPSec is not supported.
8 Click OK .
If a discovery session failover is desired, repeat step 5 and step 6 for all
iSCSI ports on the storage array. Otherwise, single-host port configuration
is sufficient.
NOTE: If the connection fails, ensure that all IP addresses are entered
correctly. Incorrectly typed IP addresses are a common cause of connection
problems.
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