This chapter contains information about SCSI disks. These disks may be accessed by local SCSI adapters, or on a Storage Area Network (SAN) by Fibre Channel adapters. Therefore, whenever we describe SCSI adapters in this chapter, these descriptions also apply to Fibre Channel adapters, even though they are not explicitly mentioned.

This chapter provides the following information:

• File System Management on SCSI Disks and RAID
• Using vmkfstools
• Accessing Raw SCSI Disks
• Determining SCSI Target IDs
• Sharing the SCSI Bus
• Using Storage Area Networks with ESX Server
• Using Persistent Bindings
• Using Multipathing in ESX Server