A few weeks ago I wrote about using iSCSI as a backup repository target. While still running this POC in my environment I came across an error in the vSAN Health Checker stating the vSAN iSCSI target service was in a Failed state. Drilling down into the vSAN Health check tree I could see a […] Read More
Setting up vSAN iSCSI and using it as a Veeam Repository
Probably one of the least talked about features of vSAN is it’s ability to serve out iSCSI volumes. The feature was released with vSAN 6.5 and was primarily focused on physical workloads and is easily configurable via the vSphere Web Client. iSCSI targets on vSAN are managed the same as any other vSAN objects using […] Read More
Quick Fix: ESX 4.1 Host Stops Responding When iSCSI LUN is “pulled”
REMOVING DEAD PATHS IN ESX4.1 (version 5 guidance here) Very quick post in relation to a slightly sticky situation I found myself in this afternoon. I was decommissioning a service which was linked to a VM which had a number of VMDKs, one of which was located on a dedicated VMFS Datastore…the guest OS also had a directly […] Read More