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7 Replies Last post: Sep 11, 2008 9:15 AM by litkaj  

esx3i and openfiler 2.3 posted: Sep 10, 2008 9:31 PM

Click to view Elitoh's profile Enthusiast 43 posts since
Nov 13, 2007
Tried to setup and openfiler iscsi server today and failed a few times. I have done alot of searching and did not find much besides the the petri method. I am failing big time. For some reason it will not connect I can ping the openfiler box from my vms but when I go to setup iscsi on the esxi server it just wont find it. Does anyone know or have a good tutorial for this type of setup?

Re: esx3i and openfiler 2.3

1. Sep 10, 2008 11:30 PM in response to: Elitoh
Click to view kriewald's profile Hot Shot 261 posts since
Jan 7, 2004

Just to check your openfiler configuration:

Can you mount a iscsi volume with windows (microsoft initiator)?

Re: esx3i and openfiler 2.3

2. Sep 11, 2008 1:18 AM in response to: kriewald
Click to view guyrleech's profile Virtuoso 1,804 posts since
Mar 6, 2006

I found this excellent article on Doug Brown's site and followed it:

http://www.dabcc.com/blogs/leew/post/How-to-set-up-a-free-iSCSI-or-NAS-storage-system-for-VMware-ESX-using-Openfiler

However, I had the same issue as you in that the OpenFiler box seemed to be happy but ESXi wouldn't see the volumes I had created. A Vista iSCSI Initiator also refused to see anything exported from OpenFiler so I suspect the problem is with OpenFiler. I haven't used OpenFiler before, I've used the iSCSI Enterprise Target (IET) on a "standard" SuSE distribution which worked fine with ESX at least.


Re: esx3i and openfiler 2.3

3. Sep 11, 2008 5:09 AM in response to: Elitoh
Click to view litkaj's profile Hot Shot 105 posts since
Mar 16, 2007
From a clean install of OpenFiler 2.3:

1a. Create Physical volume on a single disk
1b. Create Software RAID volumes on multiple disks and create an array
2. Add volumes from #1 into a Volume Group
3. Create an iSCSI volume in the VG from #2
4. Start the "iSCSI target server" service
5. Add a network entry for the client machine (or local subnet if private) at the bottom of "System > Network Setup"
6. Click "iSCSI Targets" on the Volumes page
7. Click "Add" to create a new target.
8. Click "Lun Mapping"
9. Click "Map"
10. Click "Network ACL"
11. Change the combo box for your network to "Allow".

Jason Litka
http://www.jasonlitka.com

Re: esx3i and openfiler 2.3

4. Sep 11, 2008 5:11 AM in response to: guyrleech
Click to view litkaj's profile Hot Shot 105 posts since
Mar 16, 2007
BTW... The network configuration options used on the link posted by guyrleech are wrong. Both entries are identical and allow all of 192.168.2.x.

Jason Litka
http://www.jasonlitka.com

Re: esx3i and openfiler 2.3

7. Sep 11, 2008 9:15 AM in response to: Elitoh
Click to view litkaj's profile Hot Shot 105 posts since
Mar 16, 2007
No problem. If you have OpenFiler-specific problems check out our forums as what I posted was a copy-and-paste from something I'd told another user a couple weeks back (I'm one of the moderators over there).

Jason Litka
http://www.jasonlitka.com

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