I am ending up with 8 different iSCSI paths: Notice that the default default path selection policy is MRU. Remove QNAP vSphere Web Client Plug-in. If the plug-in was not uninstalled successfully, then you need to disable the vCenter service first: When you are finished it will look similar to this: Go to the “Configuration” … Add iSCSI Targets on VMware ESXi Hosts. In my case I have two iSCSI initiators on the ESXi servers, connecting to the QNAP iSCSI target which is available through 4 network addresses. You can just use a default iSCSI configuration. The document How to use QNAP NAS as a VMware Datastore via iSCSI was written for vSphere 4.0 and hasn’t yet been updated for vSphere 6.5 so I wanted to provide some simple instructions to help others.

On QNAP both network cards have the protocol iSCSI enabled and the vSphere A its connected to QNAP store (network card 3) If I connect the vSphere B to QNAP with network card 4, vSphere A lost the QNAP store and log this: "Device or filesystem with identifier naa.6e843b6fd3840d2d1276d4263dae13dd has entered the. Step 1: Log in to vSphere Client, and select a host from the inventory panel.

Enable storage protocols (NFS and/or iSCSI). Follow the QNAP instructions How to create and use the iSCSI target service on a QNAP Turbo NAS to create the iSCSI Target Volume. Step 2: Run “uninst.exe”. In this document, the VMware ESXi host is defined as the iSCSI Initiator, and the QNAP ES NAS is the iSCSI Target. The next step is to connect ESXi to the QNAP. Step 3: Log into vCenter and verify that the plug-in is uninstalled. Step 1: Go to “C:\Program Files (x86)\QNAP VWC Plugin Service”.