- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- Introduction
- Architecture overview
- Network planning
- Licensing your VxRail
- Working with the VxRail Manager Plugin for VMware vCenter
- Overview of the VxRail Manager Plugin for VMware vCenter
- View the VxRail Dashboard
- Configure VxRail clusters
- Viewing the VxRail Manager version number
- Link your Online Support account to VxRail Manager
- Update VxRail Manager certificates
- Generating a diagnostic log bundle
- Configure a network proxy server
- Enable service connectivity
- Access SaaS multi-cluster management features using MyVxRail
- Setting Internet online/offline mode
- Configuring network traffic throttling
- Enable and disable cluster health monitoring
- Convert a VxRail-managed VMware vCenter Server to a customer-managed VMware vCenter Server
- Updating system software
- Viewing installed applications
- Use VxRail Market
- Configure VxRail satellite nodes
- View Remote Support Connectivity information
- Viewing physical system health
- Shut down a VxRail cluster
- Add a VxRail host to a cluster
- Remove a VxRail host from a cluster
- Other administrative tasks
- AD user management tasks
- Cluster management tasks
- Data center management tasks
- Data store management tasks
- DNS management tasks
- Service connectivity management tasks
- VMware ESXi host management tasks
- External VMware vCenter Server Appliance and PSC management tasks
- Internal VMware vCenter Server Appliance and PSC management tasks
- Migrate from a VxRail-managed VMware vCenter Server to a customer-managed VMware vCenter Server
- iDRAC configuration management tasks
- iSCSI management tasks
- Log server management tasks
- NFS management tasks
- NTP server management tasks
- VMware VDS management tasks
- VM folder management tasks
- VMware vSphere Standard Switch management tasks
- VxRail Manager management tasks
- External storage
- Replace and add VxRail hardware
Dell VxRail™ Appliance 4.7x Administration Guide
Mount a new VMFS datastore over iSCSI
To make full use of the new iSCSI storage, create a new datastore. This datastore can be mounted to all the hosts in the cluster.
Steps
- In the vCenter Client select the cluster name.
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Click
Related Objects >
Datastores, then click the
Add New Datastore icon to create a new datastore over iSCSI.
The New Datastore window is displayed.
- In the Type window, select VMFS.
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In the
Name and device selection window specify the name for the datastore:
- Choose one of the ESXi hosts for Select a host to view its accessible disks/Luns.
- Select the available iSCSI volume in the lower table.
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In the
Partition configuration window, adjust the iSCSI datastore
Size.
It is recommended to set Size to Use all available partitions.
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In the
Ready to complete window, review your entries and then click
Finish to complete the datastore creation.
The datastore over iSCSI is listed. Its status is “Unknown”.
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Click the
Refresh icon.
The datastore status changes to “Normal”.
- In the Storage tab, check the connection status between the iSCSI datastore and the hosts.
Results
- Provision VMs to the VMFS datastore using the vSphere Client
- Perform standard operations such as Open Console, Power On, Shutdown VM, Suspend VM, and clone VM
- Migrate VMs between VxRail datastores and iSCSI datastores
- Protect iSCSI external storage access with redundant path
In maintenance mode, VMs move to another node on the same iSCSI datastore automatically. The rebooted node is connected to the iSCSI datastore automatically. The iSCSI volume is kept as Remote Disk.
The benefit from the iSCSI multipath configuration is that if the physical adapter vmnic0 is down, iSCSI IO switches to another vmnic without interruption. When vmnic0 is back online, iSCSI IO will switch back to vmnic0 without IO interruption.
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