I'm working on an inter-forest domain migration here. As luck would have it, yes we do have VMWare support, but it's still in the old company's name. Transition of licensing is "being processed" but I am limited on how much support I can get for this until that gets sorted.
I'm trying to get a NetGear ReadyNAS 2100 storage array to connect to a newly installed ESXI 6.5 host. The host has no hard drives. Just a 32GB flash drive. (Not my idea.) So I need to add the NetGear as a datastore before I can create any VM's. Can't even setup V-Center. To complicate matters further, the NetGear array has a bunch of VM clones that need to be migrated ... so it is critical to add the NetGear Array without wiping it's current contents. At this point, I haven't done much with VMWare in quite awhile, so I'm relearning a lot of things. More than happy to dive into the CLI if there's no other way, but I don't believe that SSH is enabled presently and I'm working from home presently. (Is there a way to enable SSH from the web interface?)
I think my settings are right. I've never worked with VMWare 6.5 and the layout is certainly a little different from what I'm accustomed to.
From the Configure iSCSI page:
- iSCSI is enabled.
- CHAP is not enabled.
- I didn't do anything with Advanced Settings
- VMkernal NIC = vmk0
- Port Group = Management Network
- Valid IPv4 addresses have been statically assigned to vmk0 and vmk1.
When I rescan all hba's, it does successfully find both interfaces of the NetGear array. So the host is seeing the storage array apparently. No new device shows up under Storage --> Devices. Adding a new datastore fails with a "No Devices With Free Space" error message. So the iSCSI sees it but I'm missing something here.
Thanks in Advance!