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  • 1.  naa ID and SCSI id, where are they generated?

    Posted May 09, 2011 07:01 PM

    On the Storage Views tab a LUN is presented with a naa ID and also a SCSI id. My question is where do these values come from? Are they randomly generated by the SAN or do they mean anything?



  • 2.  RE: naa ID and SCSI id, where are they generated?

    Posted May 09, 2011 08:08 PM

    Both iqn for iSCSI as well as NAA (Network Address Authority) are generated according to defined standards.

    Instead of explaining this here, I think it makes more sense if you take a look at the documents of T11.org (http://www.google.de/search?q=site%3At11.org+naa). For the iqn format you may want to read e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI

    André



  • 3.  RE: naa ID and SCSI id, where are they generated?

    Posted May 09, 2011 10:08 PM

    André Pett wrote:

    Both iqn for iSCSI as well as NAA (Network Address Authority) are generated according to defined standards.

    Instead of explaining this here, I think it makes more sense if you take a look at the documents of T11.org (http://www.google.de/search?q=site%3At11.org+naa). For the iqn format you may want to read e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI

    André

    Hello André and thank you for your reply. I was not really thinking about the iSCSI iqn, but the SCSI id for a disk that could be seen in the storage view of the vSphere Client.

    What I am curious about is how these different values (T10, T11, naa) is generated which I see from the VMware view. I will look at the first link you suggested.