The software engineers at Iomega deserve a great deal of praise for creating one of the easiest software installation and setup applications we’ve seen for a NAS enclosure in our office. I honestly lack the words to describe just how easy it is to setup this device. One of the main features of the Iomega StorCenter ix2 is that it’s remarkably simple to setup and use. The construction of the Iomega StorCenter ix2 does make it difficult for accessing the drives inside the enclosure in fact you would need to remove multiple screws and disassemble the internal framework of the enclosure in order to access the drives, making it less than ideal for do-it-yourself repairs. There is also a security lock slot on the enclosure to deter theft is located on the bottom along with the S/N, Mac address, series code, etc. The back of the enclosure has a dual USB slot, power button, DC plug and a LAN plug along with the cooling fan vent. Who cares how it looks? You’re going to connect this thing to your network and then stick it behind your router or in your closet. The design isn’t particularly attractive, but we’re talking about a NAS here. The top, bottom and sides are made of solid metal and the front and rear of the dual hard drive enclosure have vents to keep the drives from overheating. The enclosure is all black and has a very simple design with the Iomega logo on both sides. Presto! One iSCSI VMFS datastore at your disposal.The Iomega StorCenter ix2 is remarkably compact for a network attached storage (NAS) enclosure that contains two 3.5″ desktop hard drives: Specify the block size and required capacity. Select the Disk/LUN Storage Type and click Next. In the VI client, select Storage and click Add Storage. Click Close when asked about rescanning the HBA select Yes.The iSCSI target will now be listed in the View section. The iSCSI server you just specified will now be added to the list of Send Targets. Being lazy, select the Dynamic Discovery tab and click Add. Now I’m going to connect to the iSCSI target. Since I’m not using Mutual CHAP, leave that setting to Do not use CHAP. password) of the user created on the StorCenter. In the CHAP Credentials dialog, set CHAP to Use Chap and specify the Name and Secret (i.e. To start configuring authentication, in the iSCSI Initiator Properties dialog on the General tab, click CHAP. I’ll use global settings so new connections will inherit these settings by default. Now, before connecting to the iSCSI target I’m going to specify the credentials first. Click Configure and make sure iSCSI is enabled (enabling may require restart). In VI client, select the host’s Configuration tab and select Storage Adapters. Check the Read/Write option for the users created earlier and click Next. Now specify which users have access to which folders and iSCSI drives. Click Next when asked about Group memberships click Next again. Uncheck Administrator and Add a secured folder for this user. This password MUST be between 12-16 characters. Click Applyīecause I’m going to use CHAP I need to create an account on the StorCenter for the iSCSI initiator (i.e. Leave all User Access set to None I’ll do that in the next step. 16Gb (you can increase this size when required). Change Shared Storage Type to iSCSI Drive and give it a name, e.g. Select the Shared Storage tab and click Add. Leave the option Enable two-way authentication (Mutual CHAP) unchecked. Leave iSNS discovery unchecked as ESXi doesn’t support it. In the dashboard, select the Settings tab, click iSCSI and check Enable iSCSI. Note that during taking the screenshots I discovered a 1Gb test iSCSI target was too small (ESXi complained in the Add Storage / Select Block Size dialog), so I upped it to 16 GB using the StorCenter dashboard.įirst enable iSCSI on the StorCenter. Also, in this example we’ll be using VMFS volumes for VMDK storage, not Raw Device Mappings. I’ll be using the ESXi iSCSI Software Adapter, use CHAP (could’nt get Mutual CHAP to work, anyone?) and assume networking has been properly configured. Yes, I’m running VMWare ESXi, main reason for that being one of my BSD guests and Hyper-V doesn’t do BSD.īelow are the steps I used to utilize the StorCenter as an ESXi datastore. When playing aroung with the device I wanted to connect it to my ESXi 4 servers using ISCSI. It’s a nice little device which will do nicely for my lab. Recently I got myself an Iomega IX2-200 StorCenter.
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