topic Re: vSAN ISCSI Target to a VSphere host in VMware vSAN Discussions

vSAN ISCSI Target to a VSphere host

patriccc — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:08:55 GMT

Can someone help me with this question.

Can i use a Vsphere host to connect to a vSAN 6.7 with ISCSI. And use the vSAN storage.

I have a problem to see any path and any device. But i can see the target ant IQN name and so on.

I read yesterday that this is not supported.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2148216

"Note:- vSAN iSCSI target service does not support other vSphere or ESXi clients or initiators,
third-party hypervisors, or migrations using raw device mapping (RDMs)."

If i understand, this is not supported right now but can i not get it to work anyway?

Because it is only not supported.or?

I can connect from a Windows ISCSI initiator as VM, but not from a host. So is this blocked by VMWare?

Help me thanks

Re: vSAN ISCSI Target to a VSphere host

TheBobkin — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:24:47 GMT

Hello patriccc

Many things relating to vSAN stated as 'unsupported' are as such due to the functionality not being there or not being reliable/consistent - this is one of those things.

If you want a node to access vsanDatastore without providing storage then consider adding it to the cluster as a compute-only node.

Bob

Re: vSAN ISCSI Target to a VSphere host

RajeevVCP4 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:25:05 GMT

Try this blog

https://www.altaro.com/vmware/vsan-iscsi-lun/

Re: vSAN ISCSI Target to a VSphere host

patriccc — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:44:36 GMT

Thanks for your answer.

But the link is to an Windows ISCSI connection to vSAN.

This i have test and it works yes.

I need a external VMWare host to connect using ISCSI to the VSAN ISCSI Target. And get datastore to my WM on the extarnal host. And i can't do that. For some reason.

Re: vSAN ISCSI Target to a VSphere host

TheBobkin — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:31:24 GMT

Hello patriccc

"And i can't do that. For some reason"

Because it's not designed for that functionality - it is for presenting storage to physical machines not ESXi.

Bob

Re: vSAN ISCSI Target to a VSphere host

patriccc — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:25:54 GMT

Hi.

Ok i understand that.

Thanks for your answer.