I'm trying to get an ESX server to find my iSCSI SAN without much luck. Forgive me if this is a bit long, but I'm working on my first ESX installation and am stuck on a few items.
My gear:
HP DL360 server w/10 NICs
Cisco 3750 Gig switch (48 ports)
Equallogic PS300E SAN
Switch is configured for three separate VLANS. 500=iSCSI, 510=VMotion, 520=Management
Equallogic box is configured with 23 volumes, all thin provisioned on RAID 50, for the various VMs I will eventually implement.
Network plan is as follows:
Server NIC -> Destination
1 -> Switch VLAN 500 (iSCSI) *currently connected*
2 -> Switch VLAN 510 (VMotion) *currently disconnected*
3 -> Switch VLAN 500 (iSCSI) *currently disconnected*
4 -> Switch VLAN 510 (VMotion) *currently disconnected*
5 -> Switch VLAN 520 (Management) *currently connected*
6 -> Servers VLAN in existing LAN *currently disconnected*
7 -> Switch VLAN 520 (Management) *currently disconnected*
8 -> Servers VLAN in existing LAN *currently disconnected*
9 -> Unused *currently disconnected*
10 -> Unused *currently disconnected*
Ethernet 0 & 1 on the Equallogic box are both connected to the iSCSI VLAN (500). Eth0 is up, and is configured to be 192.168.200.10/24 with a gateway of 192.168.200.1/24.
Server is up, ESX installed, and Ethernet connected as listed above. vSwitch0 is set to 192.168.220.11/24 and points to vmnic0. I can successfully connect to the VMware Infrastructure Client.
This is where it gets hazy for me... I have vSwitch1 set to 192.168.200.101/24, which points to vmnic8. (note: the vmnic numbers don't match the NIC numbers in the chart above. I wish there was a good way to figure out which NIC is which, but I haven't found it yet). I have this set as a VMkernel port, but when I scan for iSCSI targets, I find nothing.
I know I'm missing something fundamental, but I've been racking my brain and just can't find it. Any help would be most appreciated.
-Kirk