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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 50 Configuring iSCSI
iSCSI High Availability
Figure 50-39 Multiple Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces in the Same IP Network
In Figure 50-39, each iSCSI host discovers two iSCSI targets for every physical Fibre Channel target
(with different names). The multi-pathing software on the host provides load-balancing over both paths.
If one Gigabit Ethernet interface fails, the host multi-pathing software is not affected because it can use
the second path.
VRRP-Based High Availability
Figure 50-40 provides an example of a VRRP-based high availability iSCSI configuration.
IP
network
90861
IP-10.1.10.100
IP-10.1.1.1
FC fabric
pWWN-P1
iqn.host-1
iSCSI
HBA
FC
lqn.com.cisco.mds.5-3.gw.p1
FC
IP
network
IP-10.1.10.100
Network portal 10.1.10.100
iqn.host-1
iSCSI
HBA
lqn.com.cisco.mds.2-1.gw.p1
FC
IP-10.1.1.1
Network portal 10.1.1.1
Physical view (iSCSI)
Logical view