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Independent hardware iSCSI Initiator

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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