Re: [Ips] no DHCP-assigned InitiatorName

Shyam_Iyer@Dell.com wrote:
> My 2cents on the issue. Please correct me if I am wrong. 

Thank you for participating in this discussion.

> Shouldn't it be possible to configure the isns server with a set of
> possibly regex rules for the control path. If this not possible today,
> then it could possibly be the root to take towards standardizing. 

I am not familiar enough with iSNS to comment.

I have been exposed to about about a dozen commercial environments with 
some level of iSCSI use/experimentation. I am not aware that any of them 
  were running iSNS servers.

> This can solve the problem of provisioning for dynamic boot environments
> with minimum changes to legacy iqn implementations, many of which would
> need to relearn to the new iqn mechanism that might end up as a result
> of this discussion.

Frankly, my concern is that Broadcom/IBM already have a non-standard 
DHCP Vendor Option work-around for this problem.

Adding a new/standardized InitiatorName DHCP option would not break 
existing initiator implementations. Vendors would integrate support for 
this new InitiatorName option into their code/firmware releases over time.

> Instead of changing numerous configurations we could
> simply change the isns server control mechanism.

I need to do some homework regarding iSNS.

> Comments?

iSCSI is still a very small part of the market.

I advocate addressing this deficiency sooner rather than later.

Michael
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