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Sunday, February 7, 2010

VSphere 4 ESXi iSCSI - Iomega IX-200 setup

I purchased a Iomega IX-200 2TB NAS and was getting it setup for my ESXi server to connect to.

  • Setup an iSCSI share in the IX-200
  • Run the VSphere Client and connect to your ESXi system
    • Go to the configuration tab
    • Click on the Networking section
      • Add Networking
        • Add a VMKernal
        • Setup on either the same vSwitch if you only have one or on a secondary NIC
        • Assign it to a static IP address on your network
    • Click on the Storage Adapters section
      • Click on the iSCSI entry under Software Adapters
      • Click on Properties
      • Click on the box to enable iSCSI
      • Click on the tab for Dynamic Discovery
      • Add the IP address of the IX-200
    • Rescan all the adapters to find the iSCSI share on the IX-200
    • Once the new iSCSI share is found you can create a new storage datashare