I had to do that one 3.02, had no issues with it, best of luck :)

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Vasiliy Boulytchev <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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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