Understanding iSNS, data center bridging, and MPIO

- [Narrator] The Internet Storage Naming Service…is like using a DNS for storage.…It allows you to specify names…of servers instead of IP addresses,…and it's very easy and quick to set up.…The iSNS server manager won't show any connections…until after an initial connection is made…from the Initiator to the Target.…In previous videos, we set up an Initiator…and a Target using iSCSI, and we were able…to connect to the storage on the Target server,…called "data", from the Initiator server, called "DC2."…Now what we're going to do is create the SNS server link…so we can resolve names to IP addresses…for our iSCSI Initiators and Targets.…

If we go up to Tools, we see the iSNS server.…However, if you don't see that, let's go ahead…and show how you can get that installed.…In Server Manager we go to "add roles and services"…and from here we go down to the Features section,…and make sure that iSNS server service is installed.…If it's not, go ahead and check that box,…choose "next", and install.…Once it's installed, we can go to Tools…