Gents,
  Thanks for the article, you were correct :)

  You dont see any dangers in doing this, do you?  As long as I resotre VMs
and change the disk location information, I should be ok... ya? :)

Vasiliy

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Luke Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> ESX hides replicas of file systems by default so you don't Do Something
> Stupid.
>
> http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_iscsi_san_cfg.pdf
>
> Page 117 - VMFS Volume Resignaturing, DisallowSnapshotLUN, etc.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luke Smith
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron
> Stranberg
> Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 11:55 AM
> To: Vasiliy Boulytchev
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OF-users] ESX/iSCSI storage replication
>
> Hmm, did esx connect to it and show no files, or did it ask you if you
> wanted to initialize the storage?
>
> -Aaron
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Vasiliy Boulytchev
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gents,
>   Imagine the following scenario:
> • ESX 3.5 sees iSCSI lun from Openfiler (2.2)
> • Create a snapshot of this logical volume like:
> lvcreate -L200G -s -n esxsnapshot /dev/volumegroup/storage
> • Replicate this snapshot via dd on another volume (which is also being
> served by iSCSI via OpenFiler)
> dd bs=8M if=/dev/volumegroup/esxsnapshot of=/dev/volumegroup/restore
> • /dev/volumegroup/restore and /dev/volumegroup/storage are of identical
> size, and were created in the same manner via the Openfiler gui.
> • This is being done for backup/restore purposes...
>   Now, when I rescan the ESX Storage adapter (after tweaking ietd.conf on
> Openfiler and increasing LUN ID), I see the "restore" iscsi LUN, however,
> ESX thinks its empty.
>
>   Where is the mistake?
>
> THANKS!!!
>
> Vasiliy
>
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