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Chapter 7: Volume Exposure and Security 7-11
You need to define three parameters to create an iSCSI target:
SWITCH PARAMETER DEFINITION STATUS EXAMPLE
-ta
TARGET ALIAS USER-ASSIGNED
ALIAS FOR I
SCSI
TARGET
MANDATORY
finance
–tn
TARGET WWUI USER-ASSIGNED
WORLD
-WIDE
UNIQUE IDENTIFIER
FOR THE TARGET
MANDATORY
sanrad.
billing
–device
DEVICE ALIAS OF V-
S
WITCH TO EXPOSE
TAREGT ON
MANDATORY
VSwitch1
Example:
If you are working in
a V-Switch cluster,
each target must be
configured on both V-
Switches.
The target finance is created on V-Switch 1. The WWUI of Finance is
billing.sanrad, as shown in Figure 7-10.
iscsi target create –ta finance –tn sanrad.billing –
device VSwitch1