From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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Connecting hosts and storage with software iSCSI

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From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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Connecting hosts and storage with software iSCSI

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- [Instructor] Here we see a virtual machine with a virtual SCSI controller in purple on the left. And so as our guest operating system generates SCSI commands they'll flow out of the virtual machine, through the virtual SCSI controller. And those storage commands, once they get to the ESXI host, will hit what we call a storage adapter. And the job of the storage adapter is to prepare the storage commands to traverse whatever our storage network is. So in this case we're using a software iSCSI initiator. And the software iSCSI initiator is going to be bound to a VM kernel port. The job of the VM kernel port is to act as an entry point into the ethernet network. So in this case we can see the VM kernel port is named vmk1 and it's on a virtual switch that has a VM NIC, or a physical adapter assigned to it. So now as my storage commands leave the VM they hit the storage adapter. The storage adapter prepares them for…

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