When i start my road to VMware in 2013 this is the subject that kill my head and i got the help from a friend of mine so the thanks here goes to Mohammed Hadi Bafaqeer
ISCSI Storage is one of the best solution for VMware Design cause you cant depend on the Storage of the server in case the server crashed all your data crashed and you cant retrieve it and also it can help you in enabling feature like Vmotion
so lets start configuring
in Home Page – choose “Hosts and Clusters”
Select the Host
Go to Manage tab – Networking – Virtual Switch
Choose to Add host networking
Select the VMKernel Network Adapter
I use the same vSwitch since I have only one network interface in my server that is up now.
I suggest to have a separate network vSwitch for Storage
Put name to it and leave the rest for default and no need to enable any Services
It better to select a static IP but since this is a lab i let it Automatically obtain an IP from DHCP
Finish
and you can see your vSwitch0 when you highlight it it show the Storage
now Second Step
go to the host – Manage – Storage – Storage Adapter –
+ Software ISCSI Adapter
Press OK
Now highlights the ISCSI Storage Adapter
Select tab Target – AddPut the IP Address of you Storage
Mine is 192.168.200.100 press Ok
Now the Target is addedNow I will associate the VMKernel Adapter with it
Select Network Port Binding – +Select the Storage VMKernel Adapter that I configure in the beginning of the blog
It is Added and show status Not UsedClick In Rescan icon to refresh the page and
And it change from Not used to Last Active
Now Third Step is to add Datastore
Select Host – Related Objects tab – Datastores –
Choose to create a new datastore
Select the Location
Choose the Type
Choose a datastore name
and select the Version
ok here i only chooses to use 50 Gig of my 93 Gig
Then hit Finish
as you can see the storage been added under my ESXi host 192.168.208.210
and if i go to my second host 10.1.1.23 i will see the same shared Storage
Now i want to increase my Storage cause of the 50 Gig is not enough and i want to utilize my whole storage
in my Home Page go to Storage
Then go to select the storage i create
ISCSI-A – Manage – Settings – General – Increase
Select the Device
Use the free space
Increase to the size you wish
And simply it increase now hit finish
and as you can see it change from 50 Gig to 93 GigNow lets Create a Virtual Machine to be inside that storage
Choose to create a virtual Machine
Choose the Datacenter
Select the host
and now you choose the storage you create earlier
Choose the compatibility version
And select the Guest family
i am about to install Windows ;D
ALmost finish i will just select my ISO file
Windows 10 CD yessssssssss
Hit Next
and that it’s press Finish
Power on the Machine
open console to see the procedure
and proceed with he installation
And that it is
install the windows on our new storage
;D