ESXi storage

Topology

ESXi local storage

本地存储It is installed on the ESXi operating system server 本地磁盘. ESXi本地存储It needs to be 本地存储formatted into a file system before it can be used VMFS.
You can 多块磁盘put it into a VMFSfile system.

1. Create local storage

Open ESXi web控制台and
click on the left 存储-》数据存储-》新建数据存储

Create a new VMFSdata store

VMFS数据存储Fill in the storage for this new one 名称, 选择and the bottom one will be used as VMFS storage 磁盘.

Select partition options, general selection 使用全部磁盘, VMFS6; click 下一步.

Click 完成.

Click as prompted 是.

2. Local storage increases capacity

Click 存储–》数据存储–> on the left to add a data area 增加容量

to an existing VMFSdata store

Select which local disk capacity you want to add to 已有的VMFS数据存储Select

the partition option, generally select 使用全部磁盘; VMFS6click 下一步.

Click 完成.

Click 是.

View 扩容后the VMFS datastore 容量.

Add NFS storage to ESXi

1. Install NFS server

https://blog.csdn.net/omaidb/article/details/120926883

2.ESXi connects to NFS storage

If ESXi wants to connect NFS服务器, it needs to NFS服务器be configured vmkernel的ip地址so that NFS服务器it can work ESXiproperly 网络互通.

# 查看nfs版本
nfsstat -m nfs服务器

Select the corresponding NFS version

to view the capacity after NFS存储mounting .VMFS

IP SAN storage

Use iSCSI as a storage share for ESXi.

1. Set up an iSCSI server

https://blog.csdn.net/omaidb/article/details/120091644

2.ESXi configures iSCSI as IPSAN storage

Open , click on ESXithe left -》-》web控制台
存储适配器配置iSCSI

Discover shared disk

# 发现共享磁盘-Discovery
## -m 动作类型 discovery(发现)
## -t st  是发现动作的固定格式
## -p  服务端的地址
iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 192.168.1.1:3260

Select iSCSI已启用, enter 名称和别名;
click 添加动态目标, enter in addressiscsi服务器ip