#ADD ISCSI STORAGE IN VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 HOW TO#
#ADD ISCSI STORAGE IN VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 FULL#

# esxcli storage core device detached remove -d naa.6090a06860d40e5a524b15ae2bc3c366Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В¬heck the device detached list again and see if is empty Check and clean the detached device list: If is empty, you can bypass this step and finish. ~ # esxcli storage core device detached list Now for the final cleanup, we need to check the detached device list and remove any entries for the volume that we removed/detached using: esxcli storage core device detached list You should see no output after the command. # esxcli iscsi adapter target portal list and # esxcli iscsi session list # esxcli storage core adapter rescan Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™adapter=vmhba37 Next check if the target was removed and rescan the adapter: Note: The next print have more details, but we will only list the first lines(the more detail information is not needed for our tasks) This is the target adapter, now list the sessions(since the Best Practices for iSCSI connections is to have two portgroups for High Availability and multipath purposes we will see two sessions for each Volume). ~ # esxcli iscsi adapter target portal list Next, we need to check which iSCSI sessions there is in the target list toward this volume that we want to detach.

# esxcli iscsi adapter discovery sendtarget remove Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™adapter=vmhba37 Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™address=Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›10.10.10.33:3260Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р В РІР‚В Remove the discovery address from the Static Discovery in the iSCSI Initiator: If you have more than one Volumes, in this is the case skip this step and move to step 5. Note before go to step 4: Do this step only if you want to delete this Storage from your VMware environment completely. ~ # esxcli iscsi adapter discovery sendtarget list

#ADD ISCSI STORAGE IN VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 FULL#

Next, we need to know which iSCSI adapter we are using and also which iSCSI server(sendtarget) is in the Static Discover so that we can remove it also(only if we need to do a full cleanup and also remove the Storage from the VMware environment). If you put your Volume offline, you can bypass the step 3 and move to step 4. # esxcli storage filesystem unmount -l Storage-001Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›fter this, you can connect to your Storage Administration and put the Volume offline. Unmount the Volume(file system) from the host: In this case our Volume is Storage-001 and the naa id is naa.6090a06860d40e5a524b15ae2bc3c366 1. Volume Name VMFS UUID Extent Number Device Name Partition This is the information I get and that we will use for this article:

We will remove the LUN(Datastore) called Storage-001 and clean all iSCSI connections etc.

Migrate or backup any data you should have inside of the Volumes you want to delete/detach.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋor this tasks and the safe side, I recommend doing this tasks in maintenance mode, even is not mandatory.Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В¬onnect the host(where we want to delete/detach the volumes) and use ESXi Shell.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋor deleting or detaching Volumes(disk and LUNs), we need to collect disk and LUN information from within ESXi(naa, iqn and Datastore names and numbers, etc.)Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋirst, we will collect naa id using the command: esxcli storage vmfs extent list Note: Before we start, some VMware official information and technical details you can get in the VMware KB 1014953

Because of wrong deleted or detaching iSCSI volumes and not a good cleaning. We had some issues with some hosts before.

#ADD ISCSI STORAGE IN VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 HOW TO#

This article will focus on how to on ESXi Shell only. In this article, we will look hHow to delete and detach iSCSI volumes manually in a ESXi Shell.

Add iscsi storage in vmware vsphere 6.5