Just incase my Windows 2008 partitioning step had anything to do with it working for me; I just removed the image, recreated it (now 10GB!), restarted iscsi, rescanned the device in VMWare, and it formatted the entire 10GB "lun" and now it is available in my Storage view.
No funky errors yet. Stan On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Brad, > > Thanks for prompting me to do this! I just completed bringing up a LUN > from my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server machine and its currently mounted on my ESXi > server. I cheated a little; as I don't have LVM or any extra partition > space available -- I just made a simple loopback file. > > On Linux: > Installed iscsitarget ... (for anyone doing this.. there is a bug with > iscsi-target-source and Ubuntu .. I followed a bug response to actually > compile the module: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iscsitarget/+bug/208281/comments/2 > ) > dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/hd-image1 count=2000MB > mkfs.ext3 -c /media/hd-image1 << Probably not needed.. but I wanted to > mount it locally first. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# cat ietd.conf | grep -v "#" > > Target iqn.2008-10.corp.claramartin:cmcdata1.local.images.hd-image1 > Lun 0 Path=/media/hd-image1 > > Started iscsi-target.... > > At this point, I am running Windows 2008 on my laptop -- I connected with > the Windows 2008 iscsi initiator. The partition showed up as uninitialized > in Computer Management, so I initialized it, and formatted it. I cancelled > the format about 2% through, and assumed everything was going to work (I saw > a 2GB disk available). > > I went to ESXi, Config tab, Storage Adapters tab: > > - Enabled iScsi > - Added dynamic host by IP > "vmhba37:1:0" shows up as a disk of 2.25 GB (lun id 0) > > Clicked storage, clicked add storage, and added the disk (2.00 GB, 1.72GB > available after format, its now VMFS3). > > I haven't actually booted a VMWare instance off the system yet, but so far > it looks reasonably good. I am still wondering why I just iscsi'd a 2GB > file off from a raid 5 set of 7200RPM ide drives from a dual quad zeon with > onboard 15krpm drives and a 2GB raid card.. but thats another story. > > > 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. >> >> >> >> 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 >> > >
