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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: iSCSI: Support Alias in the protocolFolks, I remain concerned about this called consensus. Clearly there will be thousands of Targets and Initiators running around a network. Creating a set of human useable aliases that will distinguish all these seems to me somewhat farfetched. We don't even do very well on kings. George, George II, etc. To create aliases in the context of a single management environment makes some sense, but again, that should be outside the scope of iSCSI. That we call our car Skeezix (human useable, for management purposes within the tightly constrained context of our own family) is non-architected information. Whenever anyone cares which car it is (including during servicing and upgrades) they use the VIN, a registered and architected non-human-readable value. If Marjorie and I are the only voices in the woods, we have clearly had the consensus called against us, but this is high on my list of things that really aren't much help to anyone and shouldn't be in the document. Bob > >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.
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