{"id":39823,"date":"2014-05-22T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/?p=39823"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:41:00","slug":"tuning-iscsi-target-settings-for-vmware-esx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/tuning-iscsi-target-settings-for-vmware-esx\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning iSCSI Target settings for VMware ESX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLately, we have been getting enquiries from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/products\/data-storage-software-v7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open-E DSS V7<\/a> users about VMware settings. That\u2019s why we decided to prepare a webcast explaining how to tune iSCSI Target settings for ESX. In just 14 minutes, our moderator will take you through the entire process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iSCSI<\/strong> (Internet Small Computer System Interface) is based on familiar SCSI and TCP\/IP standards and offers many benefits, not only for data centers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/solutions\/iscsi-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iSCSI storage<\/a> lets you effectively use disk space while ensuring data reliability, lower cost, and increased performance.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, centralized storage management utilizing iSCSI and RAID technology make administration more comfortable and reduce downtime in case of hard drive failures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s have a look at some of the discussed topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating the iSCSI Volume and Target<\/li>\n<li>Accessing hardware configuration from console screen<\/li>\n<li>Modifying default values for the iSCSI Target<\/li>\n<li>Changing the ESX initiator values in &#8220;Advanced Settings&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Click on the button below to watch the webcast:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/service-and-support\/library\/webcasts-and-videos\/?click=1541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Play-now-Button.png\" alt=\"Play now - Button\" width=\"200\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/products\/open-e-data-storage-software-v7\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_open-e.png\" alt=\"Download DSS V7\" width=\"578\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_open-e.png 578w, https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_open-e-570x94.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, we have been getting enquiries from Open-E DSS V7 users about VMware settings. That\u2019s why we decided to prepare a webcast explaining how to tune iSCSI Target settings for&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[777,765,10,11],"tags":[348,466,717,720],"class_list":["post-39823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iscsi","category-open-e-legacy-products","category-virtualization","category-vmware","tag-isci-targets","tag-open-e-dss-v7","tag-vmware-esx","tag-vmware-ready"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55183,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823\/revisions\/55183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}