On the Storage Views tab a LUN is presented with a naa ID and also a SCSI id. My question is where do these values come from? Are they randomly generated by the SAN or do they mean anything?
Both iqn for iSCSI as well as NAA (Network Address Authority) are generated according to defined standards.
Instead of explaining this here, I think it makes more sense if you take a look at the documents of T11.org (http://www.google.de/search?q=site%3At11.org+naa). For the iqn format you may want to read e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI
André
André Pett wrote:
Both iqn for iSCSI as well as NAA (Network Address Authority) are generated according to defined standards.
Instead of explaining this here, I think it makes more sense if you take a look at the documents of T11.org (http://www.google.de/search?q=site%3At11.org+naa). For the iqn format you may want to read e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI
André
Hello André and thank you for your reply. I was not really thinking about the iSCSI iqn, but the SCSI id for a disk that could be seen in the storage view of the vSphere Client.
What I am curious about is how these different values (T10, T11, naa) is generated which I see from the VMware view. I will look at the first link you suggested.