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Hummy10
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‎02-12-2010 08:00 PM

ESX 4.0 and Windows Storage Server 2008

Has anyone successfully setup ESX 4 on Windows Storage Server 2008? I seem to be having difficulty finding any definitive documentation on how to set this up. I see a ton of posts on esx 3.0 and 3.5 on WSS 2003 but nothing on WSS 2008. I would like to used iSCSI if possible but since Windows cannot see a VMFS file system I don't think it will be possible and I can't seem to get connected to the NFS Shares I create. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hummy10
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‎02-12-2010 08:12 PM

Found the answer to my own question. I got this to work via iSCSI. I had already installed the iSCSI Target software on the WSS 2008 Server and configured but I could not fully connect to the iSCSI Target. The final step that I was missing was to add in a virtual disk on one of the volumes that were created. After doing this I could rescan for network storage and it found the 500GB virtual disk that I create. I was now able to connect to the iSCSI Target and format it as VMFS datastore.

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