We just purchased two new Dell M610 blade servers and installed them into our M1000E enclosure. We have a Dell 5000E that we have provisioned with three new LUNs at 2TB each. We also have another M610 in the enclosure that was there previously.
With the new blades we have purchased and installed the B mezzanine card. We want to use this to connect to the SAN. I read in the document found here http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_iscsi_san_cfg.pdf that we need to setup VMkernel Ports and connect them to the hardware iSCSI initiators. I've attached a screenshot to show how I've configured that.
I used the following command to connect;
esxcli swiscsi nic add -n vmk3 -d vmhba33
This seemed to work and I did the same for vmhba32. I confirmed the information with the following.
~ # esxcli swiscsi nic list -d vmhba33
vmk3
pNic name: vmnic3
ipv4 address: 172.16.228.170
ipv4 net mask: 255.255.255.0
ipv6 addresses:
mac address: 00:10:18:90:6c:1e
mtu: 1500
toe: false
tso: true
tcp checksum: false
vlan: true
vlanId: 0
ports reserved: 63488~65536
link connected: true
ethernet speed: 1000
packets received: 831985
packets sent: 396
NIC driver: bnx2
driver version: 2.0.7d-3vmw
firmware version: 5.0.6
However, after performing all of this, I still can not connect to the storage. I setup the software iSCSO initiator and was able to connect with that. What am I missing to make the hardware work?
