Hello, I am setting up a nexenta style server, and having its targets connect to a MS iSNS server. I am looking for someone who has configured this before and has practical experience.
The documentation from MS states: "Microsoft iSNS Server implements the optional Default DD and automatically adds all newly registered storage nodes into the Default DD. However, if a storage node is already a member of a non-Default DD, then it is not automatically placed in the Default DD when it is registered. By automatically adding newly registered storage nodes to the Default DD, the default behavior is that all newly registered storage nodes can discover each other. It is up to an administrator to subsequently partition storage nodes into non-Default Discovery Domains." "To summarize, in order for a storage node to be discovered by another storage node, both storage nodes must be members of the same DD, and that DD must be a member of an enabled DDS. It is possible for an administrator to remove a node from all Discovery Domains and, in that case, the node is not discoverable via the iSNS Server by any node except itself. In that case, it is still possible to manually configure an iSCSI initiator with the locations of iSCSI targets." What we are finding is a connection must be made while in the discovery domain before it can be moved into a user created domain, and removed from the default domain. If we connect in the default group, then move, we are ok. If we don't connect, then move to non default, we lose visibility to the targets. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
