Logging in to iSCSI Sessions
You can use esxcli iscsi session to log in to a session.
Specify one of the options
listed in
Connection Options for ESXCLI Host Management Commands
in place of
<conn_options>
.
- Log in to a session on the
current software iSCSI or dependent hardware iSCSI configuration at the adapter
level.
esxcli <conn_options> iscsi session add --adapter=<adapter_name>
The following example applies custom values.esxcli --config /host-config-file iscsi session add --adapter=vmhba36
- Log in to a session on the
current software iSCSI or dependent hardware iSCSI configuration at the target
level.
esxcli <conn_options> iscsi session add --name=<target> --adapter=<adapter_name>
The following example applies custom values.esxcli --config /host-config-file iscsi session add -name=iqn.xxx --adapter=vmhba36
- Add duplicate sessions with
target and session IDs in current software iSCSI or dependent hardware iSCSI
configuration.
esxcli <conn_options> iscsi session add --name=<iqn.xxxx> --isid=<session_id> --adapter=<iscsi_adapter>
iqn.xxxx
is the target IQN, which you can determine by listing all sessions.session_id
is the session's iSCSI ID. The following example applies custom values.esxcli --config /host-config-file iscsi session add -name=iqn.xxx --isid='00:02:3d:00:00:01' --adapter=vmhba36