These system and network requirements must be met before setting up a host to use unity storage.
Fibre channel storage requires ethernet to communicate with host machines.
Overview this document describes how to configure the following hosts to access fibre channel fc or iscsi storage provisioned on.
This port is usually implemented in a device such as disk storage a host bus adapter network connection on a server or a fibre channel switch.
Before you can set up a host to use unity storage the following storage system and network requirements must be met.
A port in fibre channel terminology is any entity that actively communicates over the network not necessarily a hardware port.
To add a virtual fibre channel adapter and connect it to a vsan.
Do direct attached storage solutions require esata connections to attach to a host machine.
A virtual fibre channel adapter is required in each virtual machine that requires fibre channel connectivity to the vsan.
On the windows start screen click server manager.
Do iscsi storage solutions communicate with host machines over a standard ethernet network.
It works by encapsulating scsi commands and transmitting them between fc nodes.
The network uses fibre channel protocol to transport scsi traffic from virtual machines to the fc san devices.
Ethernet wouldn t quite cut it for highly available storage needs.
Does fibre channel storage require ethernet to communicate with host machines.
Prior to implementing the following procedure the virtual machine must be shut down.
To connect to the fc san your host should be equipped with fibre channel host bus adapters hbas.
Fc also provides small connectors.
Unless you use fibre channel direct connect storage you need fibre channel switches to route storage traffic.
Fibre channel a high speed network technology used for sans.
As silly as it sounds scsi cables become unruly after time and small strands of fiber are certainly easier to manage.