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About ..... ............................................ ....................... ............................................................................................... 3 Visual Legend .............................. L ....................... ............................................................................................... 4 Additio Termino onal ology ............. ....................... ............................................................................................... 5 Chapter 1: Introductio to iSCSI Multipathing ............................................................................................. 6 1 on M g Overview ...................................... ....................... ............................................................................................... 6 Creatin Redundancy for Storag Traffic ...... ng ge ............................................................................................... 6 Multipa athing iSCSI Storage Traf ................ ffic ............................................................................................... 8 Unde erstanding Multipathing .. M ....................... ............................................................................................... 8 Chapter 2: Configurin Software Initiator iSCS Multipathiing ................................................................. 12 2 ng I SI Overview ...................................... ....................... .............................................................................................12 Before Configuring iSCSI Multi g ipathing ........ .............................................................................................12 Multi ipath Handle Support.... er ....................... .............................................................................................13 Corre Physical and Subnet Configuration ..........................................................................................13 ect a C n Configu uring iSCSI Software Init S tiator Multipathing .................................................................................14 Chapter 3: Creating th Storage Repository...... 3 he R ............................................................................................. 17 Overview ...................................... ....................... .............................................................................................17 Creatin the Storag Repository after Enabli Multipath ...............................................................17 ng ge y ing hing Revisio History .......................... on ....................... .............................................................................................21

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Abo out

This docu ument helps you understa how to configure sof and c ftware initiator iSCSI multipathing for r XenServe It includes the followin topics: er. s ng An overview of multipathi in genera and iSCSI m A o ing al multipathing in particular g r In nstructions for configurin software in fo ng nitiator iSCS multipathin SI ng After configur multipat A ring thing, instruc ctions for sellecting Targe IQNs when creating a et n st torage reposi itory using XenCenter X

Due to sc cope, this gui provides some, but not much, dev ide vice-specific information. For devicespecific configuration Citrix sugge reviewin the storage vendors do c n, ests ng e ocumentation the storag n, ge vendors hardware compatibility li and conta ist, acting the ven ndors techn nical support if necessary. enServer supports multipathing for Fi ibre Channell and iSCSI S SANs. For in nformation ab bout Note: Xe Fibre Cha annel multipathing, see th XenServer Administrator Guide and the Citrix Kn he A rs nowledge Ce enter.

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Visua Legend al
This guid relies heav on diagrams to explain key concep These dia de vily n pts. agrams use th following he g icons: Icon Mea aning Hos A XenServ host is th physical se st. ver he erver on whic the XenSe ch erver hype ervisor is running.

NIC The physic network c C. cal card (NIC) in your host. n

Phys sical Switch The device on a physica network th connects h. e al hat netw work segment together. ts

Stora Array. This icon rep age T presents a gen neric storage array with a LUN configured in it. N

Stora Control age ller. This ico represents a storage co on ontroller on a stora array. age

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Addit tional Termino T ology

These ter appear in the sections that follow rms n w: Primary Manageme Interface The primar manageme interface is a NIC ass ent e. ry ent signed an IP address th XenServe uses for its managemen network, iincluding, bu not limited to, traffic hat er nt ut d between hosts, between a host and Workload Balancing an for live mi h d B nd igration. VM traff VM traffi refers to network traffi that origin fic. fic n ic nates or termi inates from a virtual machine. c This is so ometimes ref ferred to as gu traffic or VM/guest traffic. uest o

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Ch hapter 1: Intro oduction to iSC Mu CSI ultipathing

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This chap provides an introduc pter s ction to confi iguring iSCSI multipathin support. It includes the I ng following topics: g An overview of the impor A o rtance of redu undancy for software init tiator iSCSI s storage traffic An explanatio of multipa A on athing and ho it works ow

For some audiences, the informati in this ch e t ion hapter may b unnecessar However, this informa be ry. , ation is given to provide a common baseline of infor o c rmation and avoid pitfall that result from commo ls on misconce eptions about iSCSI softw initiator multipathing t ware g.

Creat ting Re edundan for Storag Traff ncy r ge fic

Configuri multipath helps pr ing hing rovide redundancy for ne etwork storag traffic in c of partia ge case al network or device fail o lure. The term multipathing refers to ro m ng outing storag traffic to a storage devi ge ice over mult tiple paths fo redundanc (failover) and increased throughput or cy a d t. While NI bonding can also prov redundan for stora traffic, Ci IC c vide ncy age itrix recomm mends configu uring multipath instead of NIC bond wheneve possible. W hing o ding er When you co onfigure mult tipathing, XenServe can send tr er raffic down both paths: multipathing is an active-a b m active config guration. (By default, multipathing uses round-r m robin mode load balancin so both ro l ng, outes will hav active traf ve ffic on them during norm operation, which resul in increase throughpu The illustration that mal , lts ed ut.) follows provides a vis guide to the differenc p sual ces.

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This illustr ration shows ho for storage traffic, both pa are active w multipath whereas on one path is a ow, aths with hing nly active with NIC bonding. ongly recomm mends that you do not mix NIC bond and iSC multipath y m ding CSI hing. There is no s Citrix stro benefit fr rom layering multipathing and NIC bo g onding on th same conn he nection. Afte you enable er e multipath hing, you not only have better perform t mance but yo also have t failover t bonding ou the that g would ha provided. ave .

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Multipath is incom hing mpatible with the followin technologiies, so you sh ng hould consid using NIC der C bonding when: w You have an NFS storage device. Y N Your storage device does not support iSCSI conne Y d n i ections over m multiple IPs (for example e, Dell EqualLog or HP Le D gic eftHand SAN N). You have limi number of NICs and need to rou iSCSI traf and file t Y ited d ute ffic traffic (such a as CIFS) over th same NIC. C he .

For more information about choo e n osing NIC bo onding or mu ultipathing, see Designing X XenServer Net twork Configurat tions. Tip: To determine wh XenServe hosts have multipathin enabled on them, see M d hat er e ng n Multipathin on ng the Gene tab in Xe eral enCenter.

Multipathing iSCSI Storag Traff g I ge fic

For iSCSI software in I nitiator storag traffic, it is important t consider r ge s to redundancy. T iSCSI The protocol was not desi igned for failure, resendin packets, or data loss. C ng r Consequently resiliency is y, s very impo ortant. If the is a hardw issue wit an iSCSI s ere ware th storage comp ponent, the th hroughput w be will poor. When wo orking with iS SCSI, it is im mportant to design the inf frastructure to be solid en o nough to support I/O. Idea iSCSI sto ally, orage traffic should be se over a sep ent parate physic network t prevent iss cal to sues at the Eth hernet level. If there are issues at the Ethernet leve storage transactions w be a problem. i E el, will Likewise, it is recomm , mended that you use high quality switc y h ches that are on your stor e rage vendors hardware compatibilit list and hav been teste with your storage array e ty ve ed y. When con nfiguring iSC software initiator mul CSI ltipathing, th are two m here major points to consider: s : The type of multipath han T m ndler your arr supports. ray Whether your array return just one iSC Qualified Name (IQ or multip IQNs. W r ns CSI QN) ple

If you enable multipat thing, you must do so on all hosts in the pool. m n

Unders standing Multipathin M ng

In order to understan the issues potentially as t nd p ssociated fro misconfig om guring multip pathing, it is importan to know th purpose of multipathin the functiion of the DM nt he f ng, M-MP handl in Linux, and ler how host establish lin with stor ts nks rage reposito ories.

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As previo ously stated, multipathing is a method of providing redundant access to storage devices i one m g d g if or more components between the XenServer host and the storage array fail. (Multip c e h y pathing prote ects against co onnectivity fa ailures and not storage de evice failures s.) Multipath creates multiple conn hing m nections betw ween the Xen nServer host and the stor t rage controll ler; these con nnections are known as pa When organizations configure m e aths. multipathing, they are configurin multiple paths to a sto ng p orage device (LUN) on a storage subs system. XenServe uses the DM-MP multi er D ipath handler in its multip r pathing impl lementation. The primary y purpose of the DM-M handler is that it creat a storage device for ea LUN instead of creat a o MP s tes ach ting storage device for eac path. That is, DM-MP reconciles m ch r multiple paths to a LUN so that Linux only o creates on storage de ne evice in spite of seeing multiple paths. e Without DM-MP, Lin would cr D nux reate a storag device for each path to a LUN. Thi means in a ge o is an environm with two paths to a LUN, Linux would create two storage devices. Th would ma it ment o L e e his ake difficult to specify a storage device or find the path to that device. t e However for Linux to establish multiple active links, or ses r, m ssions, to a LU Linux m use DMUN, must -MP so that it can treat mu ultiple paths as representin only one LUN yet stil be able to r a ng ll recognize bo oth paths. Establish hing Multip Active Li ple inks to a LU UN For a Xen nServer host to establish a link with th storage re t he epository, it m must, using iS SCSI terminolo create a target and in ogy, nitiator conne ection. XenS erver, the ini itiator, does so by queryin the o ng storage device, the targ and waiti for the ta rget, ing arget to reply saying it is a y available. Aft XenServe ter er nServer, in its role as initia s ator, logs int the target. The target n to now receives a list of target IQNs, Xen has a link for sending traffic. k

This illustr ration shows th process for cr he reating a session (1) XenServ in its role a initiator, qu n. ver, as ueries the storag ge target for a list of IQNs; (2) the storage device (target) responds with the list; and (3 after receivin the IQN lis e (3) ng st, XenServer establishes a session with the target. r s e

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This link (the session) remains up and only nee to be est ) eds tablished if th is a rebo After you here oot. u configure both paths to the storag array (the multipath) an two paths are created, XenServer c e ge m nd s , can create a session for ea link, as sh ach hown in the following illu ustration.

This illustr ration shows ho when multip ow pathing is enab XenServer creates two ses bled r ssions with the storage target. The mult tipath handle uses target IQNs to det er termine if the storage dev e vices discove ered on the ta arget are differ LUNs or different pa rent r aths. The han ndler makes t determin this nation by que erying the sto orage target. Th target repl with the IQN, which includes the LUN serial number. (Ide he lies I e eally, regardl less of the nu umber of path connecting to a LUN, the serial nu hs g umber in the IQN is alwa the same.) ays ) The mult tipath handle checks IQN for match serial nu er Ns hing umbers to de etermine how many paths are w s associated with each LUN. When the serial nu d L umbers in the IQNs matc the handle assumes th e ch, er hat the IQNs are associat with the same LUN and therefore must repres different paths to tha s ted s a e sent t at LUN. u s s pecifically, wh you crea hen ate When you create the storage repository and multipathing is enabled (sp the Physi Block De ical evice (PBD)), XenServer includes a m multihome param meter that re esets XenServ ver to expect a multihomed device. (T term mul t The ltihome refer to comput or, in this case, a stora rs ter s age device that has multip IP addresses connecte to a netwo ple ed ork.) If XenSer is not aw the stor rver ware rage device is multihomed (because m s d multipathing w not enab was bled before th PBD/stora repositor was created), XenServe can only cr he age ry er reate one ses ssion (or path to h) the array. For iSCSI arrays, it is better to con I nfigure multi ipathing first however, if you created the storage t; f d repository first, you ca put the ho into main y an ost ntenance mod and then configure multipathing. ( de (For Fibre Cha annel, Citrix strongly reco ommends co onfiguring mu ultipathing an enabling the multipath nd hing check box in XenCen before cr x nter reating the st torage reposiitory.) With all types of SAN it is best to plan and design your st t Ns, t d torage and n networking co onfiguration before im mplementation, determine you want multipathing, and configur it before p e m re putting the po ool Page 10

into prod duction. Conf figuring mult tipathing afte the pool is live results i a service interruption: er s in configurin multipath affects al VMs connected to the storage repo ng hing ll ository.

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Cha apter 2: Config guring S Software Initia ator iSC CSI Mu ultipathing

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This chap provides high-level steps for conf pter s figuring iSCS software in SI nitiator multi ipathing in XenCente It include er. es: St teps for conf figuring mult tipathing for iSCSI softw initiator s ware storage devic including ces, g how to check if the target ports are operating in po ortal mode How to enabl MPP RDA Handler Support for L Arrays H le AC S LSI

Befor Conf re figuring iSCSI Multip g I pathing

When con nfiguring iSC software initiator mul CSI ltipathing, yo must ensu that you u ou ure use: The type of multipath han T m ndler your arr requires ray The correct ph T hysical and subnet config s guration

Both of these topics are described in more dep in the sec t a d pth ctions that fo ollow. Review this w informati before se ion etting up iSCSI multipathing and inco rporate it int your desig to gn.

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Multipa Handle Suppor ath er rt

XenServe supports tw different multipath ha er wo andlers: Dev Mapper M vice Multipathing (DM-MP) a g and Multipath Proxy Redundant Di Array Co hing R isk ontroller (MP RDAC). It also indirec supports PP ctly DMP RD DAC. By defaul XenServer uses Linux native multip lt n pathing (DM-MP), the generic Linux m multipathing g solution, as its multipath handler. However, XenServer sup X pplements th handler wi additiona his ith al features so that XenServer can rec s cognize vend dor-specific fe features of sto orage devices. Typical examples of DM-MP arrays with portal mode include man NetApp ar p ny rrays, HP Sto orageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) array and HP St ys, torageWorks Enterprise V s Virtual Array (EVA) arra y ays. r, ays, ver orts xy PP) However for LSI arra XenServ also suppo LSI Mullti-Path Prox Driver (MP for the Redundan Disk Arra Controller (RDAC). MPP RDAC w nt ay works differen than the DMP handl ntly e ler and requi steps be performed in a specific sequence. As of XenServe 5.6 Featur Pack 1, ires n s er re XenServe now includ a CLI command for enabling MPP RDAC sup er des e P pport that pe erforms this sequence of steps for you in the co orrect order. Typical exam mples of MP RDAC arr include D PP rays Dell MD3000-series arrays IBM DS40 s, 000-series arrays, and othe mentione in CTX12 ers ed 22824. Citrix rec commends us consult their array-ve sers t endor docum mentation or best-practice guide to e determine precisely which multipa handler to select. If in doubt, LSI array data pa typically e w ath o n aths y work best with the MPP RDAC drivers. d

Correct Physical and Sub bnet Configuration

Setting up your storag solution co p ge orrectly, inclu uding switch configuratio is critical for multipat h on, thing success. The best-practice reco ommendation for failover is to use tw switches; h n r wo however, eve if you do n en not configure two switche you must logically separate the pat (that is, p each NIC on the host on e es, ths put C separate subnets). Bec s cause TCP/I acts as the transport pr IP e rotocol for iS SCSI storage traffic, corre e ect IP config guration is essential for iSCSI multipat thing to work k.

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This illustr ration shows ho both NICs on the host in a multipathed iSCSI configu ow d uration must be on different e subnets. In this illustratio NIC 1 on the host along with Switch 1 and NIC 1 on both storage c n on, n controllers are on a different su ubnet than NIC Switch 2, and NIC 2 on the storage con C2, a n ntrollers. In additio one NIC on each stor on, rage controlle must be o the same s er on subnet as eac NIC. For ch example, in the illustration that follows, XenSe erver NIC 1 iis on the sam subnet as NIC1 on Sto me orage Controlle 1 and NIC 1 on Storag Controller 2. er C ge After per rforming the physical con nfiguration, you enable an disable sto nd orage multipa athing support in t XenCente in the Mu er ultipathing tab on the ho Propert dialog. It is easier to do this befor osts ties t re you create the storage repository. The overall process for e e p enabling mult tipathing req quires a series of s tasks, which is shown in the proce n edure that fol llows. Importan Do not ro iSCSI st nt: oute torage traffic through the XenServer h c e hosts primary manageme ent interface.

Configuring iSCSI Softwa Initiator Mu g are ultipath hing

Importan Citrix rec nt: commends ei ither (a) enab bling multipa athing in Xen nCenter befor you conne re ect the pool to the storag device or (b) if you alre t ge ( eady created the storage r repository, pu utting the ho ost into Main ntenance Mode before yo enable mu ou ultipathing. If you enable multipat thing while connected to a storage rep c pository, Xen nServer may not configur re multipath successf hing fully. If you already create the storage repository and want to configure a ed e multipath hing, put all hosts in the pool into Mai h p intenance M Mode before c configuring m multipathing and then conf figure multip pathing on all hosts in the pool. This ensures that any running virtual mach l e g hines that have virtual disks in the affect storage repository are migrated be s ted e efore the cha anges are made. The follo owing proced assumes you are usin XenCenter dure ng r.

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To confi igure multip pathing for iSCSI software initiator i r 1. Create the red C dundant phys sical paths (th is, set up the cables, s hat switches, and subnets bef d fore co onfiguring an storage settings in Xen ny nServer, inclu uding creatin your storag repository ng ge y. a) Make sure that eac NIC on th host is on a different s ch he subnet as sho in the own diagra am. b) On ea controller on the storage array, pu one of the NICs on on of those ach r ut ne subnets. (For exam mple, make su that on C ure Controller A,, NIC 1 is on Subnet 1 an n nd NIC 2 is on Subne 2. Likewise on Contro B, make sure that NI 1 is on Su et e, oller IC ubnet 1 and NIC 2 is on Subnet 2.) 2. Follow any ve F endor multipathing config gurations spe ecific to your storage dev and creat any r vice te LUNs you wil require. L ll Im mportant: Make sure the iSCSI target and all serv in the po must not have the sam M e vers ool me IQ set. It is imperative th every iSC target and initiator ha a unique IQN. If a no QN hat CSI d ave onun nique IQN id dentifier is used, data cor u rruption can occur and/o access to th target may be or he y denied. 3. Verify that the iSCSI targe ports are operating in p V e et o portal mode: 1. In XenCenter, start the New Stora Reposit age tory wizard ( (Storage men > New nu R Storage Repository). i. Click th hrough the options until you reach th Enter a n o he name and pa ath for the new iSCSI storage pag click Disc e ge, cover IQNs. XenServer queries the storage array for a liist of IQNs. s Check the Target IQN list box on the Loc I x cation page o the Storag of ge Reposi itory Wizard. .

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If the iSCSI tar ports are operating in portal mod all target I should sh rget e n de, IPs how p he Storage Repo ository Wizard. up in the on th Location page of the S D e o r handler: 4. Do one of the following to enable support for your multipath h For MPP RDAC, enab multipath in XenC ble hing Center (that is select the E s, Enable multipath hing on this server chec box in the Multipathin tab on th hosts s ck ng he Propertie dialog) and see Enabli MPP RD es d ing DAC Handler Support for LSI Arrays on r r page 16. rix ends users co onsult the arr vendors d ray documentati or bestion Note: Citr recomme practice gu to deter uide rmine precise which mu ely ultipath hand to select. If in doubt, LSI dler array data paths will ty ypically work best with th MPP RDA drivers. he AC

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For DMP, enable mult tipathing in XenCenter (t is, select the Enable multipathin X that t e ng on this se erver check box in the Multipathing tab on the h b M g hosts Properties dialog). Enabling multipathing is shown in the followin illustration m g ng n:

This screenshot show the XenC T s Center Enable multipathi on this server check box. le hing

Enablin MPP RD ng DAC Handl Support for LSI A dler rt Arrays

To enable support for the MPP RDAC handle perform th following procedure on each host i the e r R er he in pool. To enabl the MPP RDAC han le ndler 1. Open a conso on the host, and run th following command: O ole he g
# /opt/xenso ource/libexe ec/mpp-rdac --enable

2. Reboot the ho R ost.

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Chapte 3: Cre C er eating t Sto the orage R Reposito ory

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This chap explains how to creat a storage repository aft enabling iSCSI multip pter te r fter pathing, inclu uding: How to se elect the mos appropriate options in XenCenter b st based on the number of Target IQ your arra returns QNs ay How to in nterpret the IQN as XenC I Center displa it ays How to us the wildca masking option in Xe se ard o enCenter

Creat ting the Storag Rep e ge pository after E y Enablin ng Multipathing g

Ideally, yo should create the stora repositor after confi ou age ry figuring multi ipathing on a hosts in th all he pool. How wever, when you create the storage re n t epository for hosts with m r multiple path you must be hs, sure to se elect the corr option fo the numbe of Target I rect or er IQNs your a array returns. . When you create a sto u orage reposit tory, XenServ requires t you prov it with t target IQN, ver that vide the which is the address used to identi the iSCSI storage deviice. However, when you query the sto t u ify I orage device for its IQN, it may return one or more IQNs, depen o nding on the specific dev e vice. After mu ultipathing is enabled, both paths shou see the sa LUN an the target s uld ame nd should only return on IQN when XenServer queries it. However, even though mu ne n H n ultipathing is enabled, som me storage vendors treat each path as a different LUN and ret L turn multiple IQNs. The illustration th e hat follows compares two arrays, one that returns one IQN an one that re o nd eturns multip IQNs. ple

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This diagra shows how some iSCSI st ram torage devices (targets) return only one IQN whereas other iSCSI storage (t N e devices retu multiple IQ when Xen urn QNs nServer queries the target stora device for th IQN. rage the Looking at the IQNs in the Storag Repository wizard, ma be slightly confusing si ge y ay ince XenCen nter a formation. Unlike with th xe sr-prob command the IQN di U he be d, isplayed in displays additional inf XenCente also includ the IP ad er des ddress of the NIC on the controller an the port n nd number the h host and array use for com y mmunication. To determ if target query (that is, clicking Discover IQ returned one or more IQNs, note the mine t D QN) e e following illustration of a sample IQN value XenCenter mi g I X might display:

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This illustr ration shows a sample IQN number, as it might be display in XenCen The first p of the IQN is n m ayed nter. part N vendor spec and does not change. It in cific n ncludes the date the storage ven applied fo the IQN nu e endor for umber and the s storage vendor nam The second part of the IQ number incl me. p QN ludes vendor sp pecific informati This is the part of the IQ to tion. e QN examine when determinin whether or not to select the Wild Masking (*) option in the XenCenter Storage Repo w ng g ository wizard. Some sto orage devices, such as Dat taCore and StarWind arra have a m S ays, multi-IQN fea ature and ret turn multiple IQNs. For th arrays, you must spe I hese y ecify the IP addresses of a targets, in the Target Host all box on th Location page of the New Storage Repository wizard, and separate them with a com he e mma. After you enter the IP addresses, if you press Discover IQ u P i D QNs, XenCen will retu multiple I nter urn IQNs with diffe erent names. For stora devices th return mu age hat ultiple IQNs, when you a creating th storage, y must sele , are he you ect the Wildc card Maskin (*) option in XenCen ng n nter, which is denoted by an asterisk in front of the n e Target IQ in the Ta QN arget IQN li box. The wildcard mas ist w n follows: sking option appears as f

This screen capture shows the XenCente Storage Repo n s er ository wizards Wildcard M Masking (*) opti which is us for tion, sed storage tha require multip IQN support. After enter all the IP addresses of th targets separa by comma the at iple ring he rated as, Storage Rep epository wizard returns multip IQNs with different IQN numbers. rd iple h N

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To create a storage repository after enablin multipath a ng hing 1. In XenCenter create the new storage repository fo the pool us the New Storage n r, n r or sing w Repository wi R izard. 2. Click through the options until you rea the Ente a name an path for t new iSC C h ach er nd the CSI st torage page. Fill out the options in th page untill you reach D his Discover IQNs. 3. Click Discove IQNs. Xe C er enServer queries the stora array for a list of IQN Do one o the age Ns. of fo ollowing:

If only on identical IQ value is returned, sele the IQN on the stora device (ta ne QN r ect age arget) that corresponds with the LUN yo want to co ou onfigure. If you are using a stora array that returns mu age ultiple distinct IQNs, as d t described y pter, select th * option fr he rom the Targ IQN list box. get t previously in this chap

4. Finish creating the storage repository and exit the w F g e a wizard.

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Revis sion His story

Revision n 1.0 1.1 Comm ments Initial Release R Change our recom ed mmendations about MPP RDAC and DMP s drivers especially for LSI arrays s, fo s. Correc step #4 in the To co cted i onfigure mulltipathing for iSCSI r softwar initiator procedure to instruct peo to select t re p o ople the Enable multipath e hing on this server check box. Previo k ously, it said to leave this ch heck box clea ared. Change informatio about the arrays that r ed on e return multip ple IQNs, and noted th need to en multiple IP addresses for he nter such ar rrays. 1.2 Redrew multi-IQN illustration so that it alig with exam in w N s gns mple text. Re emoved state ement about not using th MPP RDA he AC handler with LSI ar r rrays. Added a third reaso to using b on bonding instead of multipath d hing. Minor editorial chan nges. Clarifie names of handlers, clarified guidan for when to use ed h nce DMP and MPP RD a DAC. Minor editorial chan nges. Jul 25, 2011 ly Da ate Ap 28, 2011 pril Jul 15, 2011 ly

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