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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Adding the software iSCSI adapter

For an ESXi host to be able to access iSCSI targets, it needs to be configured with an iSCSI initiator (adapter). For cases where you do not have hardware iSCSI initiators available, VMkernel has a software iSCSI adapter built into it; however, it is not enabled by default.

Getting ready

The software iSCSI adapter will use the VMkernel network stack to establish sessions with the iSCSI targets. Hence, by default, it will use the management network's VMkernel interface (vmk0). It is recommended that you create a different VMkernel interface for iSCSI. This will become essential when the management network is in a different subnet than the IP storage network.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you enable the software iSCSI adapter:

Log in to the vCenter Server, using the vSphere Web Client and use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 2 to switch to the Host and Clusters view.