Brad,
Fun timing! I just upgraded my Ubuntu machine from 7.0x to 8.04 to create a
iscsi target machine to mount on my ESXi server ("production" server, only
downtime was for reboot.. amazing upgrade process!) ! I have no words of
wisdom (yet), but I'll report back on how it works out for me.
Stan
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Portelance, Brad <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm a long time lurker to the list and would like to see if
> anyone has ever come across an issue I'm having now.
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> I've created an iscsi SAN on a server running CENTOS 5.2 (Redhat based) and
> the iscsi-target package (ietd) which is promoted as a free, enterprise
> ready iscsi-target. On the other end VMWARE-ESX-i 3.5 with iscsi support.
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> When I first put this together, it worked just fine. I went and tried
> OpenFiler for the iscsi SAN, but decided to go back to CENTOS.
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> The problem is now that when I get VMWARE to attach to the iscsi-target it
> gives me an error that it can't create the file system. (Error SCSI: 4506:
> Cannot find a path to device vmhba32:0:0 in a good state. Trying path
> vmhba32:0:0).
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> The target shows up and VMWARE even tried to write a partition (Which I've
> deleted in between tries), but fails while trying to format the disk. I can
> see the new partition on the drive.
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> I've checked the configuration on both ends at least 20 times, googled for
> answers, and even recompiled the ietd software and just can't seem to figure
> it out. The ietd.conf file is very basic: "Lun 0 Path=/dev/sdb" (I've tried
> Type Fileio, Blockio, IOMode=wb,etc).
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> Has anyone else ever seen this?
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> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thanks!
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> Brad
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