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USING IOMEGA STORCENTER

PRO ix4-200r NAS SERVER WITH

VMWARE ESX SERVER 3.5

Introduction

2

Audience

3

Terminology

3

Solution Configuration

3

Hardware

3

Software

4

Deployment Roadmap

4

NIC & SCSI Initiator Configuration

5

VMkernel Port Configuration

5

Adding a Share on StorCenter

8

Creating a NFS Datastore on ESX Server

11

Adding an iSCSI LUN on StorCenter

15

Creating a VMFS Datastore on ESX Server

17

Adding an RDM Disk to Virtual Machine

24

Multipathing & Failover Considerations

28

Conclusion

28

APRIL 2009