Presenting LUNs to the QLogic iSCSI initiator....................................................................94
Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for P6000 EVA..................................................94
Microsoft Windows Cluster support......................................................................................95
Microsoft Cluster Server for Windows 2003.....................................................................95
Microsoft Cluster Server for Windows 2008.....................................................................96
Setting up authentication ........................................................................................................97
General CHAP restrictions ..................................................................................................97
Microsoft initiator CHAP secret restrictions ............................................................................98
Linux CHAP restrictions ......................................................................................................98
ATTO Macintosh CHAP restrictions ......................................................................................98
Recommended CHAP policies .............................................................................................98
iSCSI session types ............................................................................................................98
MPX200 CHAP modes ......................................................................................................98
Enabling single-direction CHAP during discovery session and normal session............................99
Enabling CHAP for the MPX200-discovered iSCSI initiator entry ............................................100
Enabling CHAP for the Microsoft iSCSI initiator....................................................................100
Enabling CHAP for the open-iscsi iSCSI initiator ..................................................................101
Enabling single-direction CHAP during discovery session and bidirectional CHAP during normal
session ..........................................................................................................................102
Enabling bidirectional CHAP during discovery session and single-direction CHAP during normal
session...........................................................................................................................104
Enabling bidirectional CHAP during discovery session and bidirectional CHAP during normal
session...........................................................................................................................105
8 MPX200 FCIP........................................................................................108
MPX200 FCIP product description...........................................................................................108
Redundant FCIP network structure example...............................................................................108
Using FCIP to encapsulate FC packets.....................................................................................109
FCIP Impact on existing iSCSI configurations............................................................................109
FCIP and iSCSI performance..................................................................................................110
MPX200 iSCSI/FCIP configurations.........................................................................................111
HP Continuous Access 3-site configurations.........................................................................115
3-site configuration with four MPX200 routers.................................................................116
3-site configuration with six MPX200 routers...................................................................116
3-site configuration with eight MPX200 routers................................................................117
3-site configuration with six MPX200 routers and full inter-site connectivity..........................118
FCIP configuration rules and guidelines...............................................................................119
General FCIP configuration rules...................................................................................119
Operating system and multipath support........................................................................119
Storage system rules and guidelines...............................................................................120
Fibre Channel switch and firmware support.....................................................................120
FC switch requirements............................................................................................121
IP network requirements...........................................................................................121
IP performance tuning...........................................................................................................121
Distance.........................................................................................................................122
Bandwidth per route.........................................................................................................122
Latency...........................................................................................................................122
MTU/Jumbo frames..........................................................................................................122
Compression...................................................................................................................123
TCP window size/scaling performance tuning......................................................................123
Modifying the window size and scaling factor.....................................................................123
TCP window size and scaling factor recommendations..........................................................124
FCIP link diagnostics.............................................................................................................126
Configuring an FCIP route......................................................................................................127
Step 1. Verify your system requirements...............................................................................127
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