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iSCSI Storage Provisioning Prerequisites for LPAR

LPAR prerequisites for using iSCSI storage provisioning include:

• The default iSCSI Adapter initiator ID on IBM AIX does not conform to RFC 3720; it is in a generic format that is not unique, so the administrator must verify that the default iSCSI Adapter initiator ID is unique before provisioning storage. Do this on the Virtual I/O server as follows:

  chdev -dev iSCSIAdapterDeviceName -attr initiator_name=UNIQUE-ID
  

  iSCSIAdapterDeviceName is the adapter device name. For example, iscsi0.

  UNIQUE-ID must conform to RFC 3720 to help ensure uniqueness. For example, iqn.2011-06.com.domain:storage:myMachine.0xa1afc0f.800010EBCD900004

• Virtual I/O Servers must be available for login using ssh.