Hi,

I'm running a similar configuration (HP/Serverengines UNAs) and ran
into similar problems. The only configuration I could get to work even
sometimes was using mainline kernel 3.0.0 and compiled iscsi userland,
whatever the latest version was ~3 months ago.

HP have told me that you're not supposed to be able to connect a
HP/Serverengines NIC to an iscsi target unless you have:

- A FlexFabric Switch
- The appropriate FlexFabric license

Which sounds to me like filthy lies, since iSCSI is just plain tcp.
There could be some autodetection faff that the NICs do, but I doubt
it.

I ended up using the tcp transport, as the performance impact for what
i'm running didn't seem to be too noticeable (Xen VMs, NFS roots)

Seth

On 22 September 2011 06:02, coec <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm using RHEL 6.1 (fully patched, 2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.x86_64 with
> iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-21.el6.x86_64) on HP BL460c G7 blades
> talking to a P4500 14.4TB Virt SAN (two clustered P4500 boxes).
>
> As the blade has two FlexHBA (iSCSI) interfaces I want to do
> multipathing.  Is the following valid? (Spefically, should both ifaces
> have the same iqn?)
> ---
> iscsiadm -m iface
> default tcp,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>
> iser iser,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>
> be2iscsi.00:17:a4:77:10:01 be2iscsi,
> 00:17:a4:77:10:01,<empty>,<empty>,iqn.2011-08.scada.benvir2p
> be2iscsi.00:17:a4:77:10:00 be2iscsi,
> 00:17:a4:77:10:00,<empty>,<empty>,iqn.2011-08.scada.benvir2p
> ---
>
> In this setup, I can only login to the LUN on iface be2iscsi.
> 00:17:a4:77:10:01.  When I attempt to login with the other iface I get
> 'iscsiadm: No records found'.
>
> I have other servers where I'm only using a single FlexHBA (be2iscsi)
> and they are having their own troubles.  For example, dmesg is
> reporting lots of:
> ---
> scsi: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun4194304 has a LUN larger than allowed
> by the host adapter
> device-mapper: table: 253:7: multipath: error getting device
> device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: table: 253:7: multipath: error getting device
> device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> scsi: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun4194304 has a LUN larger than allowed
> by the host adapter
> device-mapper: table: 253:7: multipath: error getting device
> device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: table: 253:7: multipath: error getting device
> device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> ---
>
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>  Vendor: HP       Model: P410i            Rev: 3.66
>  Type:   RAID                             ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01
>  Vendor: HP       Model: LOGICAL VOLUME   Rev: 3.66
>  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>  Vendor: LEFTHAND Model: iSCSIDisk        Rev: 9000
>  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
>
> cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
>
>   8        0  586029016 sda
>   8        1     512000 sda1
>   8        2  585515008 sda2
>  253        0    2097152 dm-0
>  253        1   50331648 dm-1
>  253        2    4194304 dm-2
>  253        3    4194304 dm-3
>  253        4    4194304 dm-4
>  253        5    4194304 dm-5
>   8       16 1073741824 sdb
>  253        6 1073741824 dm-6
>
> This is all standard data iSCSI, I'm not attempting to do iSCSI
> booting at all.
>
> I've been trying to make this work for a while now and I'm wondering
> if I should just use software iSCSI?
>
> Thanks
>
> CC
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