esx iscsi connectin creation against multiple hosts

Leigh Kalbli
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I am creating a test lab with 4 hosts in a cluster that will use about 6 iscsi connections each. as i am still learning, do i have to create these connections on each host or is there a way to create a profile for the connections. I have created my distributed switch and applied it on all hosts but hoping there is a way to do so for the scsi connections.
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Top Expert 2015
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It is called host profile in vcenter.
In bunch of standalone ESXis only option is to replay SSH script
Leigh Kalbli

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Thanks. Ill look at the host profile and try there.
Leigh Kalbli

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I have created the profile but running into an issue applying. I am getting error "Paramater chapSecret cannnot be left unset."  Each storage pool has its own UN and PW. The are all individually set. I cannot find what is left unset that is causing this error. Any thoughts?
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gheist
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You can exclude options that dont apply.
Leigh Kalbli

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Thanks. I am hunting down where it is causing the problem.
Leigh Kalbli

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I was able to find what the issue was. I had successfully created the host profile from my reference esx host. However, for some reason, i had to go back in and manually set the password for all the iscsi connections. Not

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