In my experience, GlobalSAN is not very solid.  I have a b87 target, and takes 
about 5 minutes to see disks when adding a portal or statically adding the 
target,  and if I put the Mac to sleep when there is an isci connection, my 
machine would not wake up :(  So even if you update your OpenSolaris, I'm 
thinking you will still have strange issues that relate more to the initiator 
than the target.  I get the same behavior when connecting to IETD as well.
 
So, I just did the network volume hack and used NFS, and time machine works.  I 
was quite depressed when Apple didnt bundle a real initiator with 10.5.
 
-Andy

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark
Sent: Tue 5/20/2008 8:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] Help with ISCSI Target



Hello,

I'd like to add my observations to the discussion here.  I'm having the same 
issues with globalSAN as cmack.  I'm running globalSAN 3.3.0.35 on a MacBook 
Pro OS X 10.5.2.

My OpenSolaris Target is:

# uname -a
SunOS athena 5.11 snv_79a i86pc i386 i86pc

# isainfo -kv
64-bit amd64 kernel modules

I created an iSCSI target through a zfs create command:

# zfs create -V 300G -o shareiscsi=on tank/TimeMachine

When I point globalSAN at the iSCSI machine (through the portal tab) it doesn't 
find the target device.  GlobalSAN does automatially find the target device if 
I point it at a FreeBSD iSCSI system.  So, I had to enter the target manually.  
I press the "Log On..." button and globalSAN reports a connection; however, 
iscsitadm does not report the connection.  Drive utility on the Mac doesn't 
show the device connected.

I believe the above paragraph is pretty much in lock step with cmack's issues.  
However, if you leave the system sit for about 30-40 minutes, the device does 
appear in the Disk Utility.  Any attempts to manipulate the volume (including 
ejecting) results in timeouts and lockups.

I don't know if that helps the debugging process, or if it just adds flotsam to 
the discussion.

HTH!

Regards,
Mark


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