I have a test VMWare environment that uses a separate iSCSI server for storage, it works great for testing new servers and getting different environments up. Problems arise though whenever there’s a power outage, the server running VMWare comes on automatically but the iSCSI server needs to be booted manually. This causes problems with the images stored on the iSCSI server, they show as being disconnected. So what needs to be done is to re-connect them so they can be started up. It isn’t a difficult process but it did freak me out a little the first time I had to do it. Read more…