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Specifying target properties—Flex Storage Server enabled

To specify target properties when the Double-Take Flex Storage Server is enabled, perform the following steps:

  1. In the left pane of the Double-Take Flex Management Console, right-click the target that you want to configure and select Properties.

  1. On the General tab, specify values for the following properties:

Property

Description

Target name

The target name is pre-populated and read-only.

Initiator name

Specify the iSCSI initiator node name that will be passed to the Double-Take Flex Client. The initiator name is used in the following order.

  1. If the initiator name is specified for an iSCSI target, that initiator name will be used by the Double-Take Flex Client.
  2. If the initiator name is not specified for an iSCSI target, and is specified for the client, that initiator name will be used by the Double-Take Flex Client.
  3. If the initiator name is not specified for an iSCSI target or the client, the Double-Take Flex bootstrap will create an initiator node name for the Double-Take Flex Client based on the client's MAC address.
  1. On the Flex Storage Server tab, specify the following properties:

Property

Description
Name The name is pre-populated and read-only.
Target name

The Flex Target name can be changed here. The default iSCSI Flex Target name prefix is a global option. In the preceding example, the default option is iqn.2006-01.com.doubletake.flex:rep1. To modify the default option, see Defining global options.

Description

(optional) Specify a description for the target configuration.
Disk file

The Flex Target disk file can be changed here. The default disk directory is a global option. In the preceding example, the default option is C:\Program Files\Double-Take Software\Flex Storage Server\Targets. To modify the default option, see Defining global options.
Size

This is a read-only area that shows the current size, maximum size and amount of free space on the default drive used for storing target disk files. Current size and Maximum size may differ if all disk space was not allocated at time of disk creation.

Enable CHAP authentication

If required, select this checkbox and specify the CHAP credentials to match those of the intended iSCSI target.

Leave the User Name and Password fields blank to prompt for a user name and password during boot. To enable these prompts for a target that belongs to a portal enabled for Double-Take Flex Storage Server iSCSI target management, you must perform the following steps:

  1. Disable Flex Storage Server iSCSI target management on the portal containing this target.
  2. Enable CHAP on the target, but do not specify a user name or password.
  3. Re-enable Flex Storage Server iSCSI target management on the portal containing this target.
  1. On the Access Mode tab, specify an access mode for the target.

Property

Description

Disk mode

Select a disk mode for the Flex Target.

Note: Before a disk can be set to either of the shared modes, it must be initialized, partitioned and formatted under exclusive mode and contain the basic data intended for usage prior to sharing.

For detailed explanations about the disk modes, see the following topics:

Exclusive mode

Shared-persistent mode

Shared-nonpersistent mode

Concurrent mode

Redirect all write requests

Select this checkbox to redirect WRITE requests to local RAM or hard disk drive. For detailed explanations about the redirect properties, see the following topics:
  1. Click Apply.
  1. Click OK.

Note:

There are no target properties to view or specify on the Initiator Cache tab. See Working with initiator caches.