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cmaduro
Asked: 2012-03-07 10:19:32 +0800 CST

Cannot enable iSCSI port binding without adding a physical NIC to the vSwitch

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Why can I not have a purely virtualized SAN in vSphere 5? I cannot enable the iSCSI port binding option (it is greyed out and unchecked) or add the VMkernel to the iSCSI software host bus adapter unless there is a physical NIC associated with the vSwitch.

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    You can have a purely virtualized SAN in vSphere/ESXi. I do it with NFS often. Did you create a new vSwitch for your storage network?

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