How to Create a Virtual Machine on an iSCSI VMFS Datastore

 

 

The following steps will show you how to create a virtual machine on a VMware vStorage VMFS datastore on iSCSI storage.

  1. Go to Home > Inventory > VMs and Templates.
  2. Right-click your VMs folder and select New Virtual Machine.
  3. When prompted by Create New Virtual Machine wizard, do the following:
    1. Choose Custom configuration. (Configuration)
    2. Name the new virtual machine. (Name)
    3. Your VMs folder is selected for you. (Inventory Location)
    4. Select your ESXi host. (Host Cluster)
    5. Select the iSCSI datastore. (Datastore)
    6. Select 7 for virtual machine version. (Virtual Machine Version)
    7. Select Linux. (Guest Operating System)
    8. Select Other Linux (32-bit). (Version)
    9. Select 1 for the number of virtual processors.
    10. Type 128MB for Memory.
    11. Select 1 for the number of NICs you want to connect.
    12. Select Production from drop-down menu. (NIC 1 Network)
    13. Keep default NIC 1 Adapter.
    14. Deselect check box (Connect at Power On)
    15. Select Do no create disk. Virtual machine will boot from a CD-ROM ISO image. (Disk)
    16. Select Edit the virtual machine settings before completion check box and click Continue. (Ready to Complete)
  4. In Hardware list, select New CD/DVD (adding).
  5. Select Datastore ISO File.
  6. Click Browse and go to repository for your ISO images.
  7. Click Open.
  8. Select ISO image named dsl.iso.
  9. Select the Connect at power on check box.
  10. Click Finish to save changes.