Cannot connect to a vSAN iSCSI volume via Windows OS.

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Windows OS cannot find the configured vSAN ISCSI target.

Confirm the  vSAN iSCSI targets exist by navigate to the vSAN cluster in the vSphere Client, go to the Configure tab, and then select vSAN > iSCSI Targets. This will display a list of all configured iSCSI targets for that cluster. 

 

 

Environment

VMware vSAN [All Versions]

Resolution

The vitd service, or the vSAN iSCSI target service, is responsible for providing iSCSI target functionality within the vSAN environment.

Restart the vitd service ensuring all hosts have proper communication to the vSAN iSCSI targets by running /etc/init.d/vitd restart on all hosts.