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Hi, I’d like some direction on setting up two HP DL360 Gen 10 servers running ESXi 6.7 and connecting via a cisco switch to an HP MSA 2050 SAN.

I’ve got the ESXi installation covered, but after that I’m not too sure what to do next ?

The MSA has 8 x 600G disks and needs RAID 10, 2 LUNs, 1 disk group, eventually running Vcenter 6.5

The connection between ESXi and SAN is iscsi.

Can anyone provide a simple procedure I could follow ?

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I am going to put the sets very briefly as if you do not understand them, you should seek professional assistance.

  • create or plan a iSCSI network (IP address range subnet etc)

  • assign iSCSI IP addresses to SAN & create a “iSCSI vSwitch” on ESXi (or vCenter)

  • assign physical NICs to iSCSI vSwitch

  • create SAN LUNs and present them as volumes (this step varies on make/model of SAN)

  • In ESXi, add iSCSI “software” storage adapter and scan the dynamic iSCSI addresses

  • Run “rescan storage” and add the found volumes as data stores to hosts.

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Hi Adrian,

I do understand what you are saying, I just would like some detail around these tasks.

Any more detail would be appreciated.

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There must be a video of this setup somewhere but I can’t find one ?

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Just remember you cannot manage the ESXi hosts with vCenter server with lower vSphere version (you mentioned vCenter 6.5 and ESXi 6.7, it’s not possible. You should use at least same version)

But for reviewing about building your infrastracture, you can find and buy many vSphere training (All of them have storage setup parts) or find in youtube

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It’s actually the other way around…but the vcenter 6.7 has crapped out and I can’t access the web page now :>(

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Amin, when I configure jumbo frames on my MSA SAN I lose connectivity to my ESXi hosts on their management connections.

How is this possible as the SAN is on a different vlan ?