DELL PowerVault MD32xxi Deployment Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software A Dell Technical White Paper Version 1.3 PowerVault MD3200i
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 8 If a new host group is desired select the radio button for
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 9 On completion, Select Yes to proceed to the next host y
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 10 3. Check Software iSCSI Client option. 4. Select Configu
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 11 8. Select iSCSI Software Adapter under Storage Adapters.
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 12 10. Click Close. Clustering with ESX4.1 / Creating DRS Cl
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 13 Go to the configuration tab and select Storage Adapters. Sel
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 14 There are some suggested configurations depending on the num
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 15 To verify the configuration enter the following command: es
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 16 esxcfg-nics –l The output will look similar to this: Name
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 17 Click the Network Adapters tab. Then click Add. This will
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Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 18 Click Next after you have selected the chosen adapters. F
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 19 By default, all the vmnics are assigned to each VMkernel por
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 20 Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports M
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 21 Step5: Enable VMware iSCSI Software Initiator The ne
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 22 This will enable the software iSCSI initiator. To verify th
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 23 Step6: Binding VMkernel Ports to iSCSI Software Initiator T
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 24 In this example we see that iSCSI1 is vmk0, iSCSI2 is vmk1
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 25 esxcli swiscsi nic list –d vmhba33 This will list all of the
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 26 When this is done click Close or enter in another IP Addr
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 27 1. Set the volume size and keep the rest of the defau
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 1 Table of Contents Table of Contents ...
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 28 2. Under iSCSI Access you can choose to use an IP Addre
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 29 4. Check Disallow un-named discovery sessions, if desire
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 30 Step9: Enabling VMware Native Multipathing – MRU One of t
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 31 http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esxi41_
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 32 esxcfg-vmknic –a –i 10.10.5.175 –n 255.255.255.0 –m 9000 iSC
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 33 Step A3: Assign Network Adapters Just like in the previous e
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 34 Click the Network Adapters tab. Then click Add. This will o
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 35 Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 36 The important thing to note is that under the Uplinks sectio
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 37 The first thing to do is to note the vmhba# of the iSCSI So
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 2 Step A6: Binding VMkernel Ports to iSCSI Software Initiator .
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 38 In this example we see that iSCSI1 is vmk0, iSCSI2 is vmk1
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 39 255.255.255.0 10.10.5.255 00:50:56:7d:b5:f2 9000 65535 true
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 3 Introduction The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD32XXi storage solution
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 4 MPIO – With ESX4.1 and vSphere4, customers can benefit from M
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 5 3. More than one Network Interface Card (NIC) set aside for i
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 6 PowerVault MD32xxi Storage Setup and Configuration C
Dell PowerVault MD32xxi Configuration Guide for VMware ESX4.1 Server Software Page 7 1. SELECT MANUALLY DEFINE HOSTS. 2. ENTER THE HOST NAME FOR T
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