Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Manage the iSCSI Target Gateway
In this chapter
•About the iSCSI Target Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
•Work with iSCSI information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
•Set up iSCSI Target Gateway services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
About the iSCSI Target Gateway
The iSCSI Target Gateway service provides the ability to leverage your shared Fibre Channel SAN
resources with IP-based servers by using iSCSI links between your IP and FC SANs. After you
configure the iSCSI Gateway, you can share resources such as data backup, data migration,
security, and storage asset utilization across both your IP and FC SANs.
As shown in Figure 123, the IP-based server can access the shared storage resource on the Fibre
Channel SAN using iSCSI links.
The iSCSI Target Gateway is supported only on the Brocade 48000 director with Brocade 48000 CP
blades running Fabric OS 5.2.0 or later, and configured with an FC4-16IP blade. The FC4-16IP port
blade works as an iSCSI Target Gateway.
Although iSCSI service is fabric-wide, you can manage the iSCSI Target Gateway through any
iSCSI-capable switch in a fabric. Any applied iSCSI Target Gateway change is propagated and
enforced to the whole fabric.
For additional information about iSCSI Target Gateway, see the iSCSI Gateway Service
Administrator’s Guide.