@roysk

The thing about inquiry data is that it's incumbent on the target to provide
what the initiator has asked of it. What is open-iscsi connecting to, another 
SAN,
if so which make and model? If it's not a HW SAN could you setup an software 
iSCSI target server and  connect with the existing open-iscsi tool set to see
if the short inquiry phenomenon follows the SAN or the the client?

In my experience, these sort of faults usually are the result of a SCSI target
that's not quite ready. Sure it may be fully provisioned, but if the SAN is busy
serving other requests, *it's operating system* can starve out the target and
cause unpredictable results.  It's an equal opportunity offender, affecting
software iSCSI targets and inefficient HW SAN firmware (also software :).

Getting 36 bytes of inquiry data is trivial, something is really wrong if we 
can't
get even that from the target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_Inquiry_Command

If you are using a software target to begin with, consider adding cgroups to
ensure it has a minimum of CPU time to perform it's tasks in a timely manner;
or simply decreasing the net workload on the system and see if that improves
reliability.

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