On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Daniel Pocock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've recently set up the SRP target module on Linux (2.6.22). > > Trying to access the target from various initiators (Fedora, Debian, > Solaris 10, VMWare ESX 3.5) gives mixed results. > > The Linux clients, despite having limited configuration tools, worked > immediately. > > I've opened a thread on the Sun forums to discuss the Solaris 10 issue: > > http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5273631 > > On VMware: > - I had to reboot my new VMware ESX server a few times before it found > my 500GB target. > - VMWare completely rejects a target if it doesn't have a partition > table - I ran parted on Linux and then VMWare was OK > - Also, the messages in VMWare gave me the impression it would clobber > the whole volume, rather than just a single partition - so to avoid the > possibility of losing my other partitions, I made a special target > representing the intended partition rather than the entire volume. Now > I have a VMware partition table nested within a partition. > - VMware only seems to show one target at a time - I had created a few > test targets, but I could only see one of them. Is this what other > people see? ibsrpdm on the other Linux hosts shows all the targets.
My experience with SRP is as follows (with Linux 2.6.24 + SCST + SRPT as target): * Linux SRP initiator: works perfectly. * OpenSolaris SRP initiator: I could not get Sun's SRP initiator working on OpenSolaris. I even asked a Solaris expert to help me, but he couldn't get the SRP initiator working either. * VMware ESX 3.5 + Mellanox InfiniBand drivers (released in January 2008): until now I only have tested a setup with a single target. When doing a lot of I/O over the SRP connection, after about 10 minutes the virtual machine running on VMware starts logging communication errors. I reported this yesterday to Mellanox support, and Mellanox is currently working on this issue. Note: I had to upgrade the InfiniBand switch firmware before the ESX server was able to find the SRP target. Bart. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
