Configure iSCSI Adapter in ESXi hosts – VMware vSphere 6.5 using Web client. To get access to the iSCSI storage server, ESXi hosts must have the iSCSI initiator adapters must be configured to access the iSCSI target server. This article will quickly walk through that how to add the iSCSI initiators, how to add the static targets to the initiators, and accessing the block storage via iSCSI protocol on VMware vSphere 6.5 environments. I am using VMware vSphere 6.5 HTML 5 based web user interface.
Prerequisite:
- iSCSI Server IP / Hostname
- Port Number
- Unique Target
1. Login to vCenter Server as administrator on vCenter UI interface.
2. Navigate to the host and select to configure .
3. Select iSCSI adapter.
3. Once the software iSCSI adapter is created , just select the adapter to configure the static targets.
4.Enter the iSCSI server and unique Target name. (You should get this information from iSCSI storage box)
5. Once the target is added , just click on “Rescan Storage” to get the allocated LUNs for the configured targets.
6. Click “OK” to re-scan the storage.
7. Select the “devices” tab and you can see that LUN’s which are provisioned to the targets.
We have successfully configured the iSCSI targets in the ESXi nodes. You need to repeat the steps for other ESXi nodes which are going to be participate in same cluster. So that you could configure the shared datastore for ESXi cluster nodes.
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