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Hi,<br />
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How are you configuring your ISCSI connection? Are you opening the firewall on the ESXi host. Do you have a VMKernel network configured. Is your ISCSI network a vlan or a physical seprate network?<br />
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Cheers,
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Hi,

How are you configuring your ISCSI connection? Are you opening the firewall on the ESXi host. Do you have a VMKernel network configured. Is your ISCSI network a vlan or a physical seprate network?

Cheers,

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coolsport00:<br />
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thanks man, I got the vSphere Client to connect to the MSA as two new datastores, how do I connect the host to that datastore as a different drive, I don't want to replace the standard datastore with a new one, I want to use the new datastore as an archive storage drive.
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coolsport00:

thanks man, I got the vSphere Client to connect to the MSA as two new datastores, how do I connect the host to that datastore as a different drive, I don't want to replace the standard datastore with a new one, I want to use the new datastore as an archive storage drive.

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Sweet, worked like a charm, thanks
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I have an HP DL380 G4 hooked to two MSA20 NAS boxes. &nbsp;I am running three Windows 2008 VM's on the server on ESXi. &nbsp;The problem I seem to have is getting the VM's to see the MSA's. &nbsp;I figured VMWare should be able to see the 6400 cards in the box, but I can't seem to get it to work. &nbsp;I tried adding a SCSI connection in the vSphere client but it won't let me add anything and if I try to build a new VM with a physical SCSI connector it fails to start. &nbsp;My money is that this is a simple fix and I am just overlooking it.<br />
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Common VMWare guru's help me out please. &nbsp;
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I have an HP DL380 G4 hooked to two MSA20 NAS boxes.  I am running three Windows 2008 VM's on the server on ESXi.  The problem I seem to have is getting the VM's to see the MSA's.  I figured VMWare should be able to see the 6400 cards in the box, but I can't seem to get it to work.  I tried adding a SCSI connection in the vSphere client but it won't let me add anything and if I try to build a new VM with a physical SCSI connector it fails to start.  My money is that this is a simple fix and I am just overlooking it.

Common VMWare guru's help me out please.  

ESXi SCSI connection

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VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.