iSCSI Implementation Guidelines for Fault Tolerance

[Bob Gilligan <gilligan@intransa.com>]

Title:

 Folks -- Some colleagues and I have put together this internet-draft that
attempts to provide some guidelines for initiator implementors wishing to
support one form of iSCSI fault tolerance.  We would appreciate any comments,
feedback or suggestions you might have on the draft.

Bob.

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Subject:	I-D ACTION:draft-gilligan-iscsi-fault-tolerance-00.txt
Date:	Fri, 04 Apr 2003 06:43:28 -0500
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.


	Title		: iSCSI Implementation Guidelines for Fault Tolerance 
                          and Load Balancing using Temporary Redirection
	Author(s)	: R. Gilligan et al.
	Filename	: draft-gilligan-iscsi-fault-tolerance-00.txt
	Pages		: 0
	Date		: 2003-4-3
	
An approach for achieving fault tolerance and load balancing in iSCSI
using the iSNS discovery mechanism or iSCSI discovery session and the
temporary redirection mechanism is outlined here.  This approach
requires no change to iSCSI or other protocols that initiators and
targets implement.  But the manner in which initiators perform target
discovery, support the temporary redirection mechanism, and recover
from failed iSCSI sessions affects their ability to support this
approach.  This paper provides implementation guidelines for iSCSI
initiators to follow to support this form of fault tolerance and load
balancing.

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