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Setting up iSCSI Environment With ESX
Basic steps involved in an iSCSI setup are:
1
Configure your software iSCSI initiator on the ESX host.
2
Install and configure your Dell-supported iSCSI storage device.
3
Create a virtual machine file system (VMFS) datastore on the iSCSI target
LUN.
For more information about the iSCSI SAN environment, see the
iSCSI SAN
Configuration Guide
at
vmware.com/support/pubs
.
Deploying ESX and vCenter
Guidelines for Deploying ESX
This section describes the important guidelines for installing vCenter Server 4
and ESX 4 on PowerEdge systems.
• For upgrade and installation instructions, see the
Upgrade Guide
for ESX 4
under
VMware vSphere
at
vmware.com/support/pubs
. The guide provides
details on different upgrade options and specific steps that need to be
followed for a successful upgrade.
• Determine the kind of storage (local SCSI/SAS/SATA, iSCSI,
or Fibre Channel SAN) for hosting VMs that best suits the deployment
environment and design your storage infrastructure accordingly.
• Determine the number of logical unit numbers (LUNs), size of LUNs,
RAID level of the LUNs, and the number of storage groups.
• Determine the number of VMs that will run on each copy of the ESX
software and their corresponding workloads.
• Determine the resource requirements for the VMs, such as the processor
requirements, memory size, and networking. For more information on
performance, general sizing and scaling studies, see the documentation at
support.dell.com/virtualization
and
vmware.com/support/pubs
.
• Determine the required network information, such as IP addresses,
network masks, and gateway addresses. In ESX 4, Service Console and
VMkernel network interfaces require unique and valid IP addresses,
network masks, and gateway addresses.
