Patent ID: 8086760

Claim:
A method for use in managing communications connections with data storage systems, the method comprising: executing a discovery process to identify one or more iSCSI ports on a data storage system from a list of data storage systems based on a first user selection between Fibre Channel and iSCSI, and further based on a second user selection, wherein the user may select among providing an iSCSI IP address, an iSNS Server IP address, wherein the discovery process includes scanning a network to produce the list of data storage systems reachable from a current subnet and, displaying a results page including the list of data storage systems, wherein a data storage system of the list of data storage system is represented in the results page by an icon and a serial number; selecting the data storage system from the list of data storage systems displayed on the results page for configuring the one or more identified iSCSI ports on the data storage system; selecting one of the one or more identified iSCSI ports on the data storage system; selecting a network interface to initiate a connection with the data storage system; accepting, as user input at a server, settings for the selected iSCSI port; and communicating from the server to the data storage system using the selected network interface to configure the selected iSCSI port.