Hi Stan, Great! I know Ubuntu comes with the same package. Good luck, I can't wait to hear!
Brad ________________________________ From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanley Brinkerhoff Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Help with CENTOS iscsi / vmware esx-i 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]<mailto:[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. 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. 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. 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). 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. 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). Has anyone else ever seen this? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Brad
