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Independent hardware iSCSI Initiator - vSphere Tutorial
From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 1
Independent hardware iSCSI Initiator
- [Instructor] In this video, I'll explain an Independent Hardware iSCSI Initiator. This is a solution that we can utilize in our ESXi hosts to provide connectivity to an iSCSI storage array over an ethernet network. So let's take a look at how this works. Here we have a Windows virtual machine on the left with the virtual SCSI controller. And as that virtual machine generates storage commands, they flow out of the virtual SCSI controller and they hit a physical storage adaptor. Now in this case, the physical storage adaptor is an Independent Hardware iSCSI Initiator that has built-in ethernet ports. So we don't require any sort of VMkernel port in this situation. The Independent Hardware iSCSI Initiator is a complete hardware solution. We don't need a software iSCSI Initiator indentified, we don't need VMkernel ports. It's got its built-in ethernet ports that we can use to connect directly to the storage network. And the big benefit of the Independent Hardware iSCSI Initiator is that…
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Storage virtualization9m 37s
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VMFS vs. NFS11m 17s
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NFS 3 vs. NFS 4.14m 37s
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Demo: Create an NFS data store4m 47s
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Fibre Channel storage8m 25s
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LUN masking1m 13s
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Zoning1m 22s
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Fibre Channel over ethernet7m 18s
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iSCSI storage3m 22s
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Software iSCSI1m 33s
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Dependent hardware iSCSI1m 23s
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Independent hardware iSCSI Initiator1m 33s
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iSCSI target discovery3m 49s
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Demo: Dynamic discovery2m 51s
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vSAN, part 18m 48s
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vSAN, part 211m 50s
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