Dear Brad,
As the system you are upgrading may be used as part of Vermont State
Production EDP, (it may not be as well, I know nothing... :^). Part of
your upgrade migration and problem mitigation policy should be to get the
suits who's sumptuous salaries are paid for with my taxes to coin up and
buy support from either Red Hat or Ubuntu. Fact is any production system
should have vendor support, in other words it should not be on your
shoulders alone to figure this obscure stuff out.
Anyway, the fact that Stan is once again "the man" (sorry Brinkerhof btw
thanks for the workstations! :^) in finding a painless way out under
Ubuntu is both interesting commendable.
Anyway, that is how a bitter old man sees this situation.
Kindest Regards,
Flint
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Portelance, Brad wrote:
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:23:03 -0400
From: "Portelance, Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Help with CENTOS iscsi / vmware esx-i
Hi Stan,
Great! I know Ubuntu comes with the same package. Good luck, I can't wait to
hear!
Brad
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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
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