Brocade iSCSI Gateway Service Administrator's Guide (53-1000603-01, October 2007)

iSCSI Gateway Service Administrator’s Guide 1

53-1000603-01

Chapter

Introduction to the iSCSI Gateway Service

This chapter describes the FC4-16IP blade iSCSI gateway service. The iSCSI gateway service is

supported only on the Brocade 48000 director running Fabric OS v5.2.0 or higher with one or more

iSCSI-enabled FC4-16IP blades.

In this chapter

•Supported iSCSI initiators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

•Overview of iSCSI gateway service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

•Checklist for configuring iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Supported iSCSI initiators

The following table lists iSCSI initiators supported by the iSCSI gateway service.

TABLE 1 supported iSCSI initiators

iSCSI initiator driver versions

Windows

• MS iSCSI initiator 2.02.

• MS iSCSI initiator 2.03.

• MS iSCSI initiator 2.04.

Linux

• RH EL 4 default initiator.

• 2.6.10 - 4.0.2 iSCSI initiator (SourceForge,Net initiator).

• 2.4.20 - 3.6.2 iSCSI initiator (SourceForge,Net initiator).

• SUSE 9.

• SUSE 10.

Solaris

• iSCSI is built-in the 5.11 with the latest Solaris Express release.

AIX

• iSCSI is built-in in the 5.3 ML4

HP-UX

• 11i v1 - B.11.23.03e

• 11 iv2 - B.11.23.03e

NIC/TOE cards

iSCSI HBAs

• Alacritech SES2002XT

• Qlogic 4050c