RE: iSCSI: Support Alias in the protocol

["Mark S. Edwards" <marke@muttsnuts.com>]

At 09:09 PM 8/13/2001 -0400, Black_David@emc.com wrote:

>Let me also acknowledge as valid Marj's opinion that anything of
>this sort belongs in a management tool rather than the protocol.

But it only works if everyone uses the same management tool, or the tools 
agree upon the location and storage format of the information --  Somebody 
dig me up from my grave when Tivoli and OpenView merge.

As a way of easily identifying virtual LUN's or LU's within a Target Space 
of potential hundreds or thousands the alias is very valuable.

Mark.