Iomega ix4-200r User Manual

USING IOMEGA STORCENTER
PRO ix4-200r NAS SERVER WITH
VMWARE ESX SERVER 3.5

Introduction

2

2

Audience

3

3

Terminology

3

3

Solution Configuration

3

3

Hardware

3

3

Software

4

4

Deployment Roadmap

4

4

NIC & SCSI Initiator Configuration

5

5

VMkernel Port Configuration

5

5

Adding a Share on StorCenter

8

8

Creating a NFS Datastore on ESX Server

1

11

1

Adding an iSCSI LUN on StorCenter

1

15

5

Creating a VMFS Datastore on ESX Server

1

17

7

Adding an RDM Disk to Virtual Machine

2

24

4

Multipathing & Failover Considerations

2

28

8

Conclusion

2

28

8