Setting up authentication for discovery sessions for Windows hosts

This section provides instructions for setting up authentication for discovery sessions for Windows hosts.

You can set up authentication at the same time that you are connecting to the SAN Volume Controller VDisks because the CHAP authentication information is located on the same Advanced Settings panel.

You can set up authentication for a discovery session. To set up one-way authentication for a Windows host, perform the following steps:
  1. After you have the initiator software installed, you can set up authentication for your Windows host. Go to the Control Panel.
  2. From the Control Panel, select the iSCSI Initiator option.
  3. From the iSCSI Initiator Properties panel, click the Discovery tab.
  4. After clicking the Discovery tab, click Add under the Target Portals section. You see the Add Target Portal dialog box.
  5. Click Advanced.... You see the Advanced Settings panel.
  6. Select CHAP logon information.
  7. Type in a value for the User name. The user name must be the initiator name.
  8. Type in a value for the Target secret. The target secret can be a value up to 12 characters. This value is the same value that you set with the chhost command on the SAN Volume Controller cluster for this host.
  9. Click OK.
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