Dell PowerVault MD3200i - Disk Group Operations

Preparing Your Systems for Clustering 45
Configuring Mutual CHAP Authentication on the Storage Array
The initiator secret must be unique for each host server that connects to the
storage array and must not be the same as the target CHAP secret.
1
From MD Storage Manager, click on the iSCSI tab, then select Enter
Mutual Authentication Permissions
.
2 Select an initiator on the host server and click the CHAP Secret .
3 Enter the Initiator CHAP secret , confirm it in Confirm initiator CHAP
secret
, and click OK .
NOTE: In some cases, an initiator CHAP secret may already be defined in
your configuration. If so, use it here.
4 Click Close .
NOTE: To remove a CHAP secret, you must delete the host initiator and add it.
Configuring CHAP Authentication on the Host Server (Optional)
If you configured CHAP authentication in "Configuring CHAP
Authentication on the Storage Array (Optional)" on page 43, complete the
following steps. If not, skip to "Configuring a Failover Cluster" on page 63.
To optionally configure CHAP authentication on the host server:
1
Click Start  Programs  Microsoft iSCSI Initiator .
2 If you are NOT using mutual CHAP authentication , skip to step 4.
3 If you are using mutual CHAP authentication :
a Click the General tab.
b Select Secret.
c At the Enter a secure secret window, enter the mutual CHAP secret
you entered for the storage array.
4 Click the Discovery tab.
5 Under Target Port a l s , select the IP address of the iSCSI port on the storage
array and click
Remove .
The iSCSI port you configured on the storage array during target discovery
must disappear. You must reset this IP address under CHAP
authentication in the steps that immediately follow.
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