For connecting openfiler to VMware ESXi as iscsi storage follow steps below:
1.Open VMware vSphere web client and click on Hosts and Clusters:
2. Click on host and navigate to Networking->virtual switches and click on create virtual switch:
3. Select VMkernel network Adapter and click next:
4. Select New standard switch and click next:
5. Click Add + and select Network adapters and click ok:
6. I select one adapter for active and standby another one. Click next:
7. Give a name and click next:
8. Select Use static IPv4 setting and type ip setting and click next:
9. Click Finish to complete switch configuration:
10. Now we need to Enable Software iSCSI adapter. So click to + and select Software iSCSI adapter:
11. Click OK:
12. Click Add under Targets Tab to add storage target iSCSI server:
13. Type Ip of iSCSI server and click ok:
14. Wait a time to complete process:
15.Click Add+ under Network Port Blinding to select Network Adapter:
16. Select adapter and click ok:
17. Click to Rescan storage adapter to see configuration changes:
As we see 2 devices shows under devices.
18. Click Add under Datastores to add those 2 iSCSI storage:
19.Select one of Device and click next:
After added first device we can add another storage to datastore same way:
