

select the vswitch for vmkernel adapterĩ. Enter the Network label and click next to continue.ĩ.Enter the New IP address for dedicated ISCSI traffic.This IP will be used for ESXi host to ISCSI server traffic. Selecting the VMkernel adapterĨ.Its up to you which virtual switch you want to use for ISCSI traffic.


iqn iscsi targetĦ.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.) adding iscsi adapter in VMware ESXIĤ.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) vmware esxi targetĥ.Enter the ISCSI server IP address and iqn number and press OK. You can see the new ISCSI adapter in the bottom of the adapter list. After selecting the ISCSI adapter just click on OK to add it. 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.

Login to VCenter Server using Vsphere ClientĢ. You will be navigating to the VSphere Web-client login page. Just open a browser and enter the VCenter server IP address or hostname. Many of vmware administrators is currently using VSphere Client but most of the web-client features will not be available on that and this indicates VMware is preferring web interface and they may stop developing client in near feature.So it’s time to move on to web interface.ġ. ISCSI can’t match the performance with FC SAN but cost wise its very affordable. Here we will see how to add the ISCSI storage to the Vmware ESXi 5.5 hosts using VSphere web-client.As you know ISCSI storage is very cheap and many companies are preferred to deploy ISCSI storage for low and mid range servers.
