How to: Add iSCSI SAN storage to VMWare ESXI

In this Tutorial I am gong to show you how to add a LUN on a SAN through the iSCSI initiator on VMWARE ESXI Server.
The SAN I had available to do this on, is the Promise VessRAID 1830i
NOTE: Your interface to your SAN might look different, but the terminology stays the same.
  1. Creating the storage LUN on the SAN�
Login to your SAN interface, and create a new logical drive / LUN (whatever your SAN calls it)


For the purpose of the tutorial, I created a LUN of 500GB in space, in RAID 5 configuration.



My SAN asks if I want to edit lun mapping (Masking), once a LUN is configured. I always mask luns, as I want devices to only see the LUNs they are entitled to. I clicked “OK”