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24 Dell EMC SC Series: Best Practices with VMware vSphere | 2060-M-BP-V
6.5 Configuring the VMware iSCSI software initiator for a single path
Although it is not recommended, for instances where iSCSI multipathing cannot be configured, the steps
required for a single-path iSCSI configuration are as follows.
From within the VMware vSphere Client:
1. In the ESXi host Security Profile > ESXi firewall, enable the Software iSCSI Client.
2. Add a VMkernel port to a virtual switch assigned to the physical NIC for iSCSI (see Figure 11).
Configuring the VMkernel port
3. From the Storage Adapters configuration screen, click the plus sign to add an adapter, select
Software iSCSI Adapter, and click OK.
4. Within the Storage Adapters area, highlight the iSCSI software adapter (such as vmhba38).
5. To add the SC Series front-end ports, select Targets, then select the Dynamic Discovery tab. Click
Add and enter the iSCSI control port IP address, labeled as the well-known IP address for the fault
domain. If virtual ports are not enabled for iSCSI front-end ports, each of the iSCSI adapter IP
addresses for the system must be added manually.
6. Rescan the iSCSI initiator.
7. From DSM:
a. Create a server object for the ESXi host.
b. Map a volume to the ESXi host.
8. From within the VMware vSphere client, browse the Storage Adapters section and rescan the iSCSI
HBA for new volumes.