Shared Storage – Installation and Configuration

  • Add and Configure the Software iSCSI Initiator
    • Add the Software iSCSI adapter to each ESXi host
    • Edit the iSCSI Name for each Software iSCSI adapter (i.e. iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:hostname)
    • Add a VMkernel adapter to the Software iSCSI Initiator
    • Add an iSCSI target (Dynamic Discovery)
    • Rescan the Software iSCSI Initiator
    • Verify the LUN is visible to the host
  • Create a VMFS datastore (at the cluster level)
    • Type: VMFS
    • Datastore Name: VMFS-5-iSCSI-LUN-xx
    • Datastore Details: Use all available partitions
    • Verify the VMFS datastore is visible to all hosts in the cluster