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TECH198
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iscsi issues ESXI 6.7

I have been following: https://4sysops.com/archives/how-to-configure-esxi-6-5-for-iscsi-shared-storage/

but i can't get this to work.

 

- I'm using ESXI 6.7, and Windows 2012 R2 Server set up as iSCSI. LUN is online, but "not connected" 

- ESXI has 2 vNICS. (one host and one Bridged mode)

- Two VMMernal Nics. newly created iscsi VMKernal has 192.168.1.x

- iscsi port group has nic2 (bridged) active, nic1(unused)

- Managment and VMNetworks both have vnic0 active, and vic1 unused.

 

iscsi confused under storage adapters to point to Initiator ID on Windows server (Server manager .. File and  Storage Serverices >> iscsi

 

Windows server VM is also on "bridged" networking. What a i doing wrong ?

 

 

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TECH198
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I got iSCSI added, but its like NFS share i.e shared storage only not VM shared

How can i share the same VM between hosts... over iSCSI.?. eg. Config on local and VM disk on storage (split)

 

 

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daphnissov
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and Windows 2012 R2 Server set up as iSCSI

Please don't do this. It's a garbage way of trying to fake shared storage and would give awful performance anyway. Get some actual external storage and do it right.

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TECH198
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It's a test system

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