I briefly used ESXi with NFS but I don't remember if ESXi supports NFS with a username & password. If it doesn't, try using a guest-enabled share.
Jason Litka | Xoxide, Inc. Manager, IT & Software Development P: (610) 251-1672 x200 F: (610) 251-0263 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Nicholson Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:33 AM To: Mr. Richard Lustemberg Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OF-users] Esxi can no longer mount vmfs volume hosted on ISCSI lun On the subject of Openfiler and ESXi, I'm having a problem with ESXi authenticated with OF. I"m useing NFS to share ISOs to ESX and having issues authenticating ESXi. I'm using NT4 domain authentication if that helps. On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Mr. Richard Lustemberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jason: > The decrease happened on both the local sata hba and the ISCSI target. I > will look into vmfs utilities. Thanks for your suggestion. It's a miracle > that this happened before going into production. Luckily I could restore the > mail server (zimbra network edition) without loosing a single message. > Thanks again > Richard > On 8 sep 2008, at 15:09, Jason Litka wrote: > > Does ESXi provide a way to scan a LUN for a damaged file system? If you saw > a significant decrease in performance it could be that there was something > wrong with VMFS. > > Jason Litka | Xoxide, Inc. > Manager, IT & Software Development > P: (610) 251-1672 x200 > F: (610) 251-0263 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mr. Richard Lustemberg > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 7:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OF-users] Esxi can no longer mount vmfs volume hosted on ISCSI lun > > Hi: > I am at a pre deployment stage. I setup an Openfiler ISCSI target, with file > io and and writeback cache. I am connecting 1 ESXi host , and 5 vm's were > hosted on the ISCSI volume. > Today I noticed a dramatic slow down in disk speed. The esxi host was > getting 13 mb/s (it used to be 120 mb/s) with hdparm. This happened with > both local and ISCSI storage. > Therefore I stopped the vm's and rebooted. > Upon reboot , the vmfs volume on the iscsi LUN is not longer recognized by > ESXi. > The ISCSI session is initiated, the target is recognized, but the vmfs > volume doesn't mount. > Any idea how to go further > > Thanks in advance > _______________________________________________ > Openfiler-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Openfiler-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users > > _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
