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Best way to add iSCSI storage to VM Win 2012 R2 File Server

  • 1.  Best way to add iSCSI storage to VM Win 2012 R2 File Server

    Posted Jul 25, 2016 07:47 PM

    Hi,

    First of all I don't know this is the right place to post this question / discussion so I also posted this in the vSphere Storage forum.
    We have created a VM with OS Win 2012 R2 to create a file server. We bought a seperate Dell EqualLogic PS4000 iSCSI storage to store the files/folders of the users where I created a volume with a size 2,2TB.
    So to be clear the VM server and the files/folders storage are on seperated Dell EqualLogic systems.
    I would like to know what is the best way to connect that volume to the VM file server? It also have to be easy if the VM breaks I can connect the storage to another VM.
    In my view I see three options:
    1. Connect the volume through the Win 2012 R2 iSCSI initiator
    2. Connect the volume to the ESxi server and create a datastore of it and attach that to the VM
    3. Connect the storage through the ESXi server to the VM with RDM

    What is the best practice?

    Thanks