Connecting ESXi hosts to a Fabric Storage

ESXi hosts can be configured to access LUNs from a Fabric Storage. This is achieved by connecting the ESXi hosts to the FC switches to which the Fiber Channel array is attached. The following diagram is a common infrastructure configuration:

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will cover a very high-level overview of what needs to be done to present LUNs to ESXi hosts:

1. Plan and implement the fabric infrastructure to avoid single points of failure:
   • At the host: Every Host Bus Adapter (HBA) on a host is a single point of failure.
   • At the fabric: Each fabric switch is a single point of failure.
   • At the array: Each storage controller, RAID controller, and disk is a single point of failure...