How to enable iSCSI on ESX using the Dell Equallogic plugin

Make sure you have the VM-Ware CLI installed on your vCenter or desktop. ( Download Link )

Make sure you have downloaded the Equallogic plugin for ESX from the Equallogic website. The download is available when you have registered you storage device. when downloaded, extract the ZIP. (Link)

Make sure your ESX server runs in Maintenance mode!

Open the VM-Ware CLI and navigate to the extracted ZIP and run:

setup.pl --server=192.168.191.10 --configure --ips=192.168.193.50,192.168.193.51,192.168.193.52,192.168.193.53 --nics=vmnic0,vmnic1,vmnic2,vmnic3 --enableswiscsi

Behind “–ips=” add an IP for every physical NIC you add to the vSwitch.
Behind “–nics=” aad the physical NIC’s you want to use for iSCSI.

Default Jumbo packages is not enable by the plugin, to enable this connect to the ESX server using SSH and run the following commands:

esxcfg-vswitch -m 9000 vSwitchISCSI
esxcfg-vswitch -l
esxcfg-vmknic -m 9000 iSCSI0
esxcfg-vmknic -m 9000 iSCSI1
esxcfg-vmknic -m 9000 iSCSI2
esxcfg-vmknic -m 9000 iSCSI3
esxcfg-vmknic -l

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