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HOW TO: Deploy and Use the Synology Storage Console for VMware to Add iSCSI LUNs and NFS exports to VMware vSphere Cluster ESXi Hosts

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
EE Fellow, MVE, Expert of the Year 2021,2017-11, Scribe 2016-2012, Author of the Year 2018-6,2013-2012 VMware vExpert Pro, vExpert 2025-2011
In this video I will show you HOW TO: Deploy and Use the Synology Storage Console for VMware to Add iSCSI LUNs and NFS exports to VMware vSphere Cluster ESXi Hosts, and compare and contrast to the "manual" setup in the previous videos

HOW TO: Add a Synology NAS providing NFS Storge to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 7.0

The Synology Storage Console for VMware vSphere is a free software appliance to use in conjunction with the Synology NAS product, which is designed to ease the deployment of NFS and iSCSI LUNs to VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) hosts.

The Synology Storage Console for VMware vSphere can be downloaded from https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/download.

Please note I did struggle with the deployment of the appliance, for the first 20 minutes of the video! Please feel free to skip or watch the issues! Even Experts have IT issues!
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