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As said in the earlier section, as a best practice, it is good to create tables and diagrams like the ones shown in this section as it helps a storage administrator keep track of the components and relationships used in the PowerMax iSCSI environment. Although this is an optional step, detailed documentation greatly helps in management and in communicating the environment details to other teams such as the Networking and Database Administrators.
The new Prod2 environment components are detailed in the table and diagram below.
Configuration | PowerMax ID | iSCSI Director | Port | iSCSI Target Name | IP Interface IP Address | Prefix | Network ID | VLAN ID | MTU |
Prod1 | 197900536 | SE-1F | 28 | iqn.dellemc.0536.1F.prod1 | 192.168.82.30 | 24 | 10 | 82 | 9000 |
Prod1 | 197900536 | SE-2F | 28 | iqn.dellemc.0536.2F.prod1 | 192.168.83.30 | 24 | 10 | 83 | 9000 |
Prod2 | 197900536 | SE-1F | 28 | iqn.dellemc.0536.1F.prod2 | 172.16.10.10 | 24 | 20 | 80 | 9000 |
Prod2 | 197900536 | SE-2F | 28 | iqn.dellemc.0536.2F.prod2 | 172.16.11.10 | 24 | 20 | 80 | 9000 |
In the example, two additional storage array iSCSI targets are required as well as two additional IP interfaces. The Prod2 environment requires the creation additional VLAN (VLAN 82) to isolate the Prod2 traffic from the Prodd1 traffic. In the example, only a single VLAN will be used for the entire environment. Also, an additional host or virtual machine is required (Windows Server 2016 or Linux) to act as the Prod2 server. In the example, the Prod2 server (ENTTME0107) is running Windows Server 2016.