Problems presenting iSCSI luns to Server2012r2

So I am trying to cluster 2012r2 OS and SQL and I ran into this problem.. First the back ground.... I have a super beefy computer 32 gigs (1TB SSD) running VM workstation 11. In there I have one 2012 running AD (my DC) and also SQL and one computer
running EMC Celerra appliance.., one computer running ESXi 5.5 and one computer running Vcenter.... So I am able to present using Celerra, iSCSI storage to my ESXi 5.5 no problem. Within ESXi 5.5/Vcenter, I have two server 2012r2 that are joined to my
domain... no problems there. I added the Initiators and I am able to see my Celerra IQN target, and on the Celerra side, I can see both of my nodes.... I even made sure I went in to (on the MS side) the advanced tab under discover
portal and took out the two default and used the MS iscsi initiator adapter and ip addy of the server there.... Unless I am missing something, I should be able to go to disk management and refresh and my disks should show up... Does anyone
else have any ideas of what to try?
2 things.... I hear you need scsi3 per connections to be able to do iscsi in 2012r2.... I thought Celerra was able to do this and I had no trouble presenting to VMware directly...so I am not sure that is a problem unless I need to enable something
on the celerra...
Second thing is I am only using 2 network adapters for each Node.... one for the heartbeat and am sharing the other 2 for data network traffic.... I didn't figure that would be a big deal since this is just a learning lab... I am going to split those apart
now and see if that helps.... Anybody have any ideas for me? TIA

Hello and thank you for your time to respond. Actually I figured out my problem late last night. I did as you said added separate adapters to use for the storage, but that wasn't my "real" problem. My real problem, and I don't know how this happened,
but in the lun masking section of the Celerra, I had the target (Celerra's) initiator instead of the host (Microsoft's). How that happened, I don't know, but it was one of those situations where you can look at it for a day and not see anything
wrong. I replaced it with Microsofts from both nodes and voila... The drives appeared... If I may indulge a couple (3) of more questions though.... So, when I made the host machines, I used the local storage for both the C (os) and D (binary) drives on
both separate nodes. Then I presented the common storage of the Q(quorum) M (MSDTC) and E (Data) drives from the Celerra. All fine and dandy so far...This was late last night, so I might not have paid attention too closely, but somehow the Cluster hijacked
the local drive (D)... I am not sure how this happened, since it is being presented right off the datastore on Vsphere... I want (need) that D drive to stay independent (local).... That is how we do it in production at work anyways.. Second question
is when I ran the suitable for cluster tests, it came clean except the MPIO, which gave an alert, which I ignored... I am assuming that is fine since this is all done with one connection.. and third.. was when we cluster SQL on 2008, we would always add clusterDtc
and then create a empty container, call it MSDTC, and put the clusterDtc in it and then delete the original clusterDtc that is not in the container. It would not let me move the clusterDtc in the empty container and I was wondering if this was
even necessary as I never understood this step as our work practices it. I also was reading in two different spots that with 2012r2 that you don't need to failover clusterDtc anymore, and then another one that says that you still do AND that you should make
a separate one for each SQL service... As a final question.... Can you cluster reporting services in SQL? TIA again for any help...

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