About Veritas Access as an iSCSI target

Veritas Access as an iSCSI target feature enables a Veritas Access cluster to serve block storage. Through the use of multiple portal IPs, an iSCSI target can be served in active-active fashion.

This feature enables the block storage to be capable of supporting multi-pathing at the initiator end. Veritas Access eases provisioning of block storage, with the functionality to resize, clone and snapshot the LUNs, ACL controls such as initiator mapping and user management.

Veritas Access as an iSCSI target supports VMware version 5.5.0 as an initiator. Veritas Access as an ISCSI target can serve block storage in OpenStack Cinder. See About the Veritas Access integration with OpenStack Cinder

You can perform the following functions on an iSCSI target:

• Start, stop, and check status of the iSCSI target service

• Create, destroy, check status, and list iSCSI targets and add and delete multiple portal addresses

• Add, delete, resize, manage, grow, shrink LUNs, and clone LUNs snapshots

• Map and remove mapping of iSCSI initiators

• Add and delete users to set up CHAP authentication

• Support for multiple portal IPs per target makes the targets active-active