The following procedure will help you bind VMkernel adapters to the iSCSI adapter:
- Once you are done with creating the VMkernel interfaces and distributed port groups as instructed in the Getting ready section, go to step 2.
- Use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 2 to switch to the Host and Clusters view, select the ESXi host and navigate to Configure | Storage | Storage Adapters, and select the iSCSI adapter:
- With the iSCSI adapter selected, navigate to its Network Port Binding tab and click on the
icon to bring up the Bind vmhbaXX with VMkernel Adapter window:
- On the Bind vmhbaXX with VMkernel Adapter window, select the distributed port groups that were created for binding and click OK:
- Once this is done, you will see the VMkernel adapters listed under the Network Port Binding. The Path Status is Not used because we have not configured any iSCSI targets yet. It also recommends a rescan, which again is not required at this point in time, because we don't have targets configured:
The next step is to configure access to an iSCSI target, which is covered in the next recipe Configuring Access to an iSCSI Target Server.
- Once you have configured access to a target server, you should see the Path Status for each of bound interface change to Active:
