Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 13-1
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Chapter
13
Managing the iSCSI Target Gateway
The chapter provides information about iSCSI management in Fabric Manager and contains the
following sections:
• “About the iSCSI Target Gateway” on page 13-1
• “Viewing iSCSI Information” on page 13-2
• “Setting Up iSCSI Target Gateway Services” on page 13-7
About the iSCSI Target Gateway
The Brocade 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 13-1, 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 SilkWorm 48000 director with SilkWorm 48000 CP
blades running Fabric OS 5.2.0 or higher, 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.