Enabling software iscsi initiator

[venkatesh710]

Hi All

        Currently i am working on Iscsi environment with Esx4.1. Here i need two icsi initiators .. already i have one software iscsi Adapter named as vmhba37 and has an iqa. is it possible to create one more software iqa (one more initiator port) ?

        Thanks in advance.

--Venkat

[MauroBonder]

No - your can only have one software iSCSI initiator - only one instance can run in the vmkernel

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_iscsi_san_cfg.pdf

[venkatesh710]

Thanks yar

venkat

[MauroBonder]

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[golddiggie]

What were you looking to accomplish with the second initiator? If you're looking to have better performance/load balancing, there are was to get it even with the software initiator.