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It really comes down to your clients security and governance, and accessing the Risk of another iSCSi Client accessing data on these LUNs, and what other access and restrictions exist on these LUNs, e.g. access granted by IQN? is this a secure storage network? how can you obtain access to this LAN, where is the LAN etc<br />
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50% of our clients use it, 50% of our clients dont!
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It really comes down to your clients security and governance, and accessing the Risk of another iSCSi Client accessing data on these LUNs, and what other access and restrictions exist on these LUNs, e.g. access granted by IQN? is this a secure storage network? how can you obtain access to this LAN, where is the LAN etc

50% of our clients use it, 50% of our clients dont!

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Thanks Andrew,<br />
How difficult is to administrator iscsi with CAHP in vmware esxi environment?<br />
Is it one time configuration? Will it reconnect if Esxi reboot without administrator interference?
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Thanks Andrew,
How difficult is to administrator iscsi with CAHP in vmware esxi environment?
Is it one time configuration? Will it reconnect if Esxi reboot without administrator interference?

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do you require any more additional help to close this question?

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I need your opinion on configuring CAHP authentication on iScSI. As far as I know it is tightening the security, but do we need it?. Client has VNX, Equallogic,NetApp. None of them are configured for CHAP authentication. Client is thinking of implementing that solution.<br />
Experts out there might have configured CHAP authentication. &nbsp;What the advantages and disadvantages of using it ?
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I need your opinion on configuring CAHP authentication on iScSI. As far as I know it is tightening the security, but do we need it?. Client has VNX, Equallogic,NetApp. None of them are configured for CHAP authentication. Client is thinking of implementing that solution.
Experts out there might have configured CHAP authentication.  What the advantages and disadvantages of using it ?

CHAP for iscsi

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.