From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 1

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,700 courses taught by industry experts.

Software iSCSI

Software iSCSI - vSphere Tutorial

From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 1

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Software iSCSI

“

- [Instructor] Here we see a virtual machine with a virtual SCSI controller in purple on the left. And so as our guess stop earning 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 adaptor. And the job of the storage adaptor is to prepare these 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 neck or a physical adaptor assigned to it. So now as my storage command leave the VM, they hit the storage adaptor. The storage adaptor prepares them for transmission on that iSCSI network and relays to the VM kernel port,…

Contents