1. Login to VCenter Server. Just open a browser and enter the VCenter
server IP address or hostname. You will be navigating to the VSphere
Web-client login page.
2.Navigate
to the ESXi host where you want to add the ISCSI storage.After
selecting the ESXi host, Just click on “Manage” tab and navigate it to
“storage” tab.Click on the “+” icon add the ISCSI adapter.
3.After
selecting the ISCSI adapter just click on OK to add it. You can see the
new ISCSI adapter in the bottom of the adapter list.
4.Select the ISCSI adapter and you
will get the below window on the screen.Just navigate it to the
target.Click on “Add” to add new ISCSI target.You need the target iqn
number and this you can take it from your ISCSI server.(Ex:
Openfiler,Microsoft ISCSI target,Starwind)
5.Enter the ISCSI server IP address and iqn number and press OK. ISCSI protocol defaults uses port 3260.
6.Now you need to navigate to networking tab to configure the dedicated ISCSI network adapter to segregate
the virtual SAN traffic.Click on the highlighted image to add new VMkernel adapter.(Refer step :2 Image.)
7.Select the VMkernel adapter for virtual SAN traffic aka ISCSI traffic.
8.Its up to you which virtual switch you want to use for ISCSI traffic. Let me go with vswitch0.
9. Enable the virtual SAN traffic for new VMkernel adapter.
9.Enter the New IP address for dedicated ISCSI traffic.This IP will be used for ESXi host to ISCSI server traffic.
11.Click finish to complete the wizard.
12.You can see the new adapter like the below one.
13.Again Navigate to the storage tab. Select the “Network Port Binding” and Click “+” to add new VMkernel adapter
14.Select the newly configured VMkernel adapter and select OK to add it .
15.Now you have successfully configured the ISCSI target in ESXi 5.5
host. To see the provisioned LUN’s ,you need to re-scan the
adapters.Click on the below highlighted icon to re-scan it.
16.You can see ISCSI storage LUNS on the device tab.
(courtesy to unixarena.com)
