Sun Microsystems 7000 - Manual (Page 5)

1.2 iSCSI Access
The diagram below gives an overview of accessing the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System using
the iSCSI protocol to host Virtual Machine Virtual Disks (vmdk). An iSCSI LUN is exported from the
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and attached using the vmkernel in the VMware ESX
host. A VMFS3 file system can be created on the iSCSI LUN to host vmdks, or the iSCSI LUN can be
attached directly to a virtual machine using Raw Device Mapping (RDM).
5 Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System With VMware ESX Server
Figure 2: iSCSI Access