Set Up Ports for iSCSI
Multipathing
With port binding,
you create a separate VMkernel port for each physical NIC using 1:1 mapping.
Verify that you are familiar
with iSCSI session removal. See
Removing iSCSI Sessions.
You can add all network
adapter and VMkernel port pairs to a single vSwitch. The
vSphere Storage
documentation explains in detail how to specify port binding.
You cannot set up ports for
multipathing by using
vicfg-iscsi
.
In the examples below, specify
one of the options listed in
Connection Options for vCLI Host Management Commands
in place of
<conn_options>
.
The
4.x ESXCLI
commands for setting up iSCSI are no longer supported.
- Find out which uplinks are available for use with iSCSI adapters.esxcli <conn_options> iscsi physicalnetworkportal list --adapter=<adapter_name>
- Connect the software iSCSI or dependent hardware iSCSI initiator to the iSCSI VMkernel ports by running the following command for each port.esxcli <conn_options> iscsi networkportal nic add --adapter=<adapter_name> --nic=<bound_nic>
- Verify that the ports were added to the iSCSI initiator by running the following command.esxcli <conn_options> iscsi networkportal list --adapter=<adapter_name>
- If there are active iSCSI sessions between your host and targets, discontinue them. See Removing iSCSI Sessions.
- Rescan the iSCSI initiator.esxcli <conn_options> storage core adapter rescan --adapter <iscsi adapter>
- To disconnect the iSCSI initiator from the ports, run the following command.esxcli <conn_options> iscsi networkportal remove --adapter=<adapter_name> --nic=<bound_nic>