This document is a guide to the iSCSI SAN configuration guide, which explains how to use ESX Server with storage area networks. The document provides detailed information on virtualization, network virtualization, and storage virtualization concepts, as well as topics such as multipathing and path failover, storage system types, and a comparison of targets and LUN representations. It also discusses the advantages of using ESX Server with SAN, viewing SAN configuration information, network configuration and authentication, sharing VMFS across ESX Servers, metadata updates, and volume display and rescanning.
The iSCSI SAN Configuration Guide provides detailed instructions for integrating VMware ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, and VirtualCenter 2.5 with a storage area network. It covers SAN concepts, network configuration, storage management, multipathing, and data access methods such as VMFS and RDM.
The document also includes sections on installing hardware and software iSCSI initiators, configuring boot from SAN, performance monitoring, backup considerations, and a set of command‑line utilities (esxcfg‑swiscsi, esxcfg‑hwiscsi, storageMonitor, vmkping, etc.) to help administrators manage and troubleshoot SAN environments. This manual is written in Chinese.
| Supported ESX Server versions | ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, VirtualCenter 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Maximum HBA queue depth | 99 |
It covers ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, and VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2.
Use the storageMonitor utility, which periodically polls the VMkernel for SCSI sense errors and writes them to log files or standard output.