About Access Appliance as an iSCSI target
You can create an iSCSI target and provisions LUNs for storage.Access Appliance as an iSCSI target feature enables a Access Appliance cluster to serve block storage. Through the use of multiple portal IPs, an iSCSI target can be served in active-active fashion.
This feature enables the block storage to be capable of supporting multipathing at the initiator end. Access Appliance eases provisioning of block storage, with the functionality to resize, clone, and snapshot the LUNs, ACL controls such as initiator mapping and user management.
Note:
Access Appliance as an iSCSI target supports VMware version 5.5.0 as an initiator.
Access Appliance as an ISCSI target can serve block storage in OpenStack Cinder.
See About the Access Appliance integration with OpenStack Cinder.
Two file system layouts are available: Simple or Mirror.
You can perform the following functions on an iSCSI target:
Start, stop, and check status of the iSCSI target service.
Create, destroy, check status, and list iSCSI targets and add and delete multiple portal addresses.
Add or delete, resize, manage, grow or shrink LUNs, and clone LUNs snapshots.
Map or remove mapping of iSCSI initiators.
Add or delete users to set up CHAP authentication.
Support for multiple portal IPs per target makes the targets active-active.