Does anyone know how to add a NAS that is attached via esata (using ISCSI) to an ESX5.1 Hypervisor ?
Thanks,
Does anyone know how to add a NAS that is attached via esata (using ISCSI) to an ESX5.1 Hypervisor ?
Thanks,
I have quite a few TS-412's and yes, you can connect them to ESXi or Hyper-V (or any iSCSI initator for that matter), but I strongly advise against it:
ve made you point ;-) Thanks for the response Mark Henderson would you suggest NFS or SMB with the TS-412
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The documentation for that device states on page 572 what the eSata port is for.
First, eSata is not a network port - and IScsi is a network protocol. Regardless what you want, you wont run iSCSI over it.
Second, it is a master side port - to attach additional hard discs, not to connect upstream. Yes, all those dreams of fast performance just went out. Your car also won't fly you to the moon - wrong technology.
You can add (eSata) enclosures or dis there, but that is it. You HAVE to use the 1G network ports for ISCSI.
Are you talking about directly connecting the storage to the hypervisor host and sharing out the NAS as a volume via iSCSI?
If that's the case instead of doing that you can configure the esata device as a passthrough to the VM guests. Here's a video walkthrough courtesy of youtube. Google "esxi storage passthrough esata" for more.