HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.1.x administrator guide (5697-0234, November 2009)

250 iSCSI Gateway services
To represent all iSCSI initiators and sessions, each iSCSI portal has one iSCSI virtual initiator (VI) to the FC
fabric that appears as an N_Port device with a special WWN format. Regardless of the number of iSCSI
initiators or iSCSI sessions sharing the portal, Fabric OS uses one iSCSI VI per iSCSI portal.
The following figure shows the interaction of different layers from the iSCSI initiator stack to the FC target
stack, including the iSCSI gateway service used during protocol translation.
Figure 17 iSCSI-to-FC translation
Basic versus advanced LUN mapping
Fabric OS provides the following two methods to map physical FC targets (LUNs) to iSCSI virtual targets
(VTs):
• ”Basic LUN mapping” on page 250
• ”Advanced LUN mapping” on page 251
Basic LUN mapping
Fabric OS provides a mechanism that maps LUNs to iSCSI VTs, a one-to-one mapping with unique iSCSI
Qualified Names (IQNs) for each target. It presents an iSCSI VT for each native FC target to the IP network
and an iSCSI VI for each iSCSI port to the FC fabric.
The following figure shows a basic LUN mapping scenario for an FC target with four LUNs.
Figure 18 iSCSI VT basic LUN mapping
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