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Can there be multiple connections to the same volume?
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Absolutely. Usually many ESX servers are all using the same set of volumes simultaneously.
That is necessary for vmotion, HA, DRS, etc to work correctly.
Authentication wise you can either put many authentication groups into one volume list so they all have access or just use CHAP.
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Thanks Adam. I forgot that I had trouble with authentication, so I didn't use it to get started. Are there any tricks to getting it to work with ESX? I believe that there are two levels? One for the initiator and one for the volume?
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I'm reading between the lines a bit and assuming you mean CHAP?
If so, there are not really any tricks per se but do be aware that currently ESX only supports one way chap (meaning it authenticates the target or the SAN but does not allow the SAN to authenticate it, the ESX server).
So if you wan to use chap you configure a chap name and a password on ESX, and on SAN/iQ you configure the same chap name and put in the password you used on ESX as the "target secret", just leave the initiator secret blank in SAN/iQ.
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