Running VMware VM's on your Synology NAS

so you just picked up a brand-new Synology nas for your home lab but not entirely sure how to connect it to your ESXi hosts well you've come to the right place because I'm going to show you step-by-step how it's done now there are two different storage protocols we can use to connect the Synology nas to our ESXi hosts there is NFS and then there's I scuzzy NFS is a file level protocol like what you'd see in a typical window share where as I scuzzy is a block level protocol used in enterprise storage arrays we're going to focus on I scuzzy today but the beauty of the Synology nas is you don't really have to decide you could just use them both so Knology offers a number of now solutions that support I scuzzy from the inexpensive two disk vs 216 model all the way up to the massive 12 d s 24 15 plus but you already have a Synology with I scuzzy that's why you're here so let's get started login to your Synology nas and open up the storage manager click on I scuzzy target and create now because this target is going to be talking to my VMware hosts I'll call it VMware leave the iqn as it is now let's take a minute to talk about chap tab stands for a challenge handshake authentication protocol by enabling chaf your ESXi host has to authenticate to the Synology nas enabling mutual chat means that the Synology nas then in turn has to authenticate with your ESXi hosts now because this is a home lab I'm not terribly concerned about having this level of security so I'm going to leave this unchecked and we'll click Next I don't have any I scuzzy ones created yet so this wizard will walk us through creating one right now we have a couple of different options on how to create a nice cozy one there's a file level and then there's a block level the biggest difference being that a file level one can be thin provisioned but the downside is it has to live on a volume so that means we need to manage the volume capacity as well as the ones capacity but I want to keep things a little bit simpler in my lab and I want to dedicate storage for this use so I'm going to select a block level LUN and I'm going to call this sin D s01 this is the same name that I'm going to give to the data store let's click Next select a disk group I only have one available and let's allocate a size I'm going to say 1000 gigs we can always expand this later let's review everything looks good click apply great our target and our LUN are created now I'm going to be using multiple hosts to connect to this LUN so in order to enable that let's click on edit go to advanced and allow multiple sessions from one or more ice cozy initiators click OK and that's it let's move over to the vCenter and start configuring our hosts let's select the first host [Music] click configure select storage adapters and let's add a new adapter select software Ice goes the adapter click ok and we've created a new ice cozy software adapter now select the new Ice goes get after and select targets by Synology targets been automatically discovered which is great hopefully yours is too if not select static discovery and enter the IP address and I scuzzy target name of yours now click on storage devices and rescan click OK [Music] and check it out our ice cozy one is now available repeat these steps on all of your other hosts [Music] [Music] and once again there's our LUN select either a host or the entire cluster select storage new data store select VMFS let's name this sin es 0 1 just like we did when we named the LUN select a host select your Synology I scuzzy disk click Next use all available space and click Next this looks good let's click finish and there you have it click on data stores and there it is Cindy s01 yours might show is unmounted but don't worry it'll take a few seconds for it to mount and now we're free to start migrating some of our VMs to the new data store and that's it I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial thanks for watching I'm Matt Bradford of the M spot [Music]

Channel: VMSpot

Views: 122,169

Keywords: VMware, Synology, NAS, ESXi, iSCSI, Homelab

Id: O8FrSs7eNNs

Length: 5min 55sec (355 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 11 2017