On a parallel SCSI bus, a device (e.g. host adapter, disk drive) is identified by a “SCSI ID”, which is a number in the range 0–7 on a narrow bus and in the range 0–15 on a wide bus. On earlier models a physical jumper or switch controls the SCSI ID of the initiator (host adapter).
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A SCSI ID is a unique identification/addressing for each device on the SCSI bus. Two devices on the same SCSI bus cannot share a SCSI ID number.
In the vSphere Client, the SCSI ID is displayed in the Virtual Machine configuration. The SCSI ID has two numbers (Controller:Device) and can be found in the Virtual Device Node section.
In common with the SCSI protocol definitions Linux represents scsi addresses as a sequence of 4 ID numbers that uniquely identify the location of a SCSI device within the system. These are referred to as Host, Bus, Target, Lun (HBTL) or Host, Channel, Id, Lun (HCIL ) SCSI addresses.
In vCenter Server, right-click the virtual machine and click Edit Settings. Click a disk, and look at SCSI (X:Y) Hard Disk under Virtual Device Node. The X:Y values are: X = Location ID.
To get the SCSI device number, right-click a disk and select Properties. As you can see, the information about the device port for VMWare Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device is shown in the Location field of the General tab. Join the data you see and get the SCSI disk address: SCSI(0:1).
ID 7 (in most cases) is reserved for the SCSI (host) adapter. ID 0 is for a boot device and is usually a hard drive.
The scsi_id location changed starting in RHEL7 release: it is no longer in a place where the standard PATH search will locate it. Starting in RHEL7 the location is `/usr/lib/udev/scsi_id`. This document references this path when referencing the commands within generic discussions.
On an iSCSI target system, type ls -l /dev/disk/by-id at the command line to see any attached iSCSI disks along with their WWID. This works equally well for locally attached SCSI drives.
SCSI has several benefits. It’s fairly fast, up to 320 megabytes per second (MBps). It’s been around for more than 20 years and it’s been thoroughly tested, so it has a reputation for being reliable. Like Serial ATA and FireWire, it lets you put multiple items on one bus.
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, /ˈskʌzi/ SKUZ-ee) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, electrical, optical and logical interfaces.
The SCSI standard is no longer common in consumer hardware devices, but you’ll still find it used in some business and enterprise server environments. More recent versions include USB Attached SCSI (UAS) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
Storage controllers connect disk drives to a computer. There are different standards and types of storage controllers such as IDE, SATA, and SCSI controllers. In virtual machines, virtual storage controllers connect virtual and physical disks to these machines.
Data disk. A data disk is a managed disk that’s attached to a virtual machine to store application data, or other data you need to keep. Data disks are registered as SCSI drives and are labeled with a letter that you choose. Each data disk has a maximum capacity of 32,767 gibibytes (GiB).
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