The VSC appliance provides and manages access to the available storage created in the NetApp Cluster to the VMware vSphere environment. NetApp also provides an additional appliance, the Virtual Storage Console (VSC). The vSphere Hosts will then connect to this newly created Datastore using the iSCSI protocol. In this instance the storage provided by NetApp ONTAP will be used in VMware vCenter to create VMFS Datastores. This is the third step after the initial deployment and installation of the NetApp ONTAP virtual appliance.īefore proceeding with the setup and configure NetApp ONTAP storage there is a number of steps required which are preliminary to the correct provisioning of the storage. In this instance the NetApp ONTAP Simulator is used and the environment is running on a VMware vSphere homelab. When the task is completed, click the Rescan adapter icon and click OK to rescan the adapters:ġ0.This article shows the options to configure NetApp ONTAP storage. Type the hostname (or the IP address) and the port of the iSCSI target and click OK:ĩ.
Select Dynamic discovery and click Add:Ĩ. Under Adapter Details, go to the Targets tab. Select the VMkernel port you’ve created in the previous step and click OK:ħ. Select the Network Port Binding tab and click the plus icon:Ħ. You now need to associate the iSCSI software adapter with the VMkernel port created in the previous step. Type a friendly name for the iSCSI Alias and click OK:ĥ. Note that the dialog box displays the iSCSI initiator name. Under Adapter Details > General, select the Edit button:Ĥ. When the task is completed, select the vmhba adapter that is listed under iSCSI Software Adapter. Click OK in the Add Software iSCSI Adapter window that opens:ģ.
Under Storage Adapters, click the Add new storage adapter icon and select Software iSCSI adapter:Ģ. Select your ESXi host in the inventory and go to Manage > Storage. Here are the instructions to enable a software iSCSI initiator on an ESXi host using vSphere Web Client:ġ.
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