D-Link DSN-4200 DSN Series SAN Arrays VMWare ESX Manual - Page 12
iSCSI/IP SAN Connectivity
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xStack Storage DSN-Series SAN Arrays VMware ESX 3.0.2 & 3.5 Note that the default block size of a Virtual Machine File System is 1MB. This block size supports storing virtual disk files up to a maximum of 256GB in size. If you plan to store virtual disks larger than 256GB in the datastore, you must increase the block size to be greater than the default. See Figure 6. Figure 6: Disk/LUN Formatting iSCSI/IP SAN Connectivity As a best practice, D-Link recommends separating iSCSI traffic from other IP network traffic by implementing a separate network or VLAN than the one used for VMotion or virtual machine traffic. To enable ISCSI connectivity, the ESX Server requires a special connection type, referred to as a VMkernel port, along with a service console port. The VMkernel network requires an IP address that is currently not in use on the ESX Server. To configure the iSCSI connectivity, follow these steps. D-Link Systems, Inc. December 2, 2009 Page 12