Mike, Thanks for your reply. But I believe that the problem is more to do with FCoE than ZFS.
Just to make things clearer, in my previous post, when I mentioned 'scsi disks' I meant LUs which were created from zvols. I apologize if there was any confusion. I had created an iSCSI Target on machine1 and I used an iSCSI initiator from machine2 to connect to the target in machine1. (after removing FCoE ports on both machines). 'format' command was able to detect two remote disks (zvols): bash# format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c4d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60797 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63> /p...@0,0/pci-...@1f,2/i...@0/c...@0,0 1. c4d1 <GB0500C8-9QM0YVX-0001-465.76GB> /p...@0,0/pci-...@1f,2/i...@0/c...@1,0 2. c8t600144F03B26CF0000004BE108060002d0 <DEFAULT cyl 1022 alt 2 hd 64 sec 32> /scsi_vhci/d...@g600144f03b26cf0000004be108060002 3. c8t600144F03B26CF0000004BF50E1E0007d0 <DEFAULT cyl 1303 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63> /scsi_vhci/d...@g600144f03b26cf0000004bf50e1e0007 Specify disk (enter its number): I was then able to successfully create a zpool with the following command: bash# zpool create iscsiPool c8t600144F03B26CF0000004BE108060002d0 bash# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT TestVMPool 464G 159G 305G 34% 1.00x ONLINE - iscsiPool 1008M 129K 1008M 0% 1.00x ONLINE - rpool 464G 145G 319G 31% 1.00x ONLINE - But this was not possible with FCoE. I removed the iSCSI target-initiator connection. I recreated the FCoE target and initiator ports. Again, 'format' command was able to detect the two remote disks(zvols). But when I tried to create a zpool on machine2 with either of those two disks(zvols), I got an error: bash# zpool create -f fcPool c8t600144F03B26CF0000004BE108060002d0 cannot label 'c8t600144F03B26CF0000004BE108060002d0': try using fdisk(1M) and then provide a specific slice /var/adm/messages output: May 27 12:36:58 machine2 scsi: [ID 243001 kern.warning] WARNING: /scsi_vhci (scsi_vhci0): May 27 12:36:58 machine2 /scsi_vhci/d...@g600144f03b26cf0000004be108060002 (sd2): Command Timeout on path fp0/d...@w2000001b2128e0c8,3 Thanks, Naren. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
