Contents iii
Introduction 1
Storage Solutions Deployed 1
Basic Storage Architectures 2
Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) 2
Network-Attached Storage (NAS) 3
Storage Area Network (SAN) 4
Unified Storage 6
10-Gigabit Ethernet Technology 6
iSCSI Technology 7
Initiators 8
Targets 9
Multi-Path I/O 9
Management of iSCSI 9
Storage Performance and iSCSI 10
General Performance Comments 10
Improving iSCSI Storage Performance 10
Network Infrastructure Settings 11
Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack 11
Receive-side Scaling 11
TCP Offload Adapters 12
Full iSCSI Host Bus Adapters (HBA) 12
Performance Result Summary by Initiator Network Adapter Type 12
Deployment Examples 16
Deployment Environment 16
Servers 16
Network Adapters 16
Network Switches 16
Deployment Processes 16
Application Host Configuration Steps 17
Storage Solution Configuration Steps 17
Run Applications to Use the iSCSI Storage 17
Application Host Configuration Steps 18
Install Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise x64 Edition 18
Install Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 18
Configure Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 20
General Tab 20
Discovery Tab 21
Targets Tab 22
Persistent Targets Tab 25
Bound Volumes Tab 25
Security for iSCSI 26
