ESXi 4.0 and QLogic 4062c HBAs

[wlentz]

I have four VM servers, (2 PE2950s, 1 1950, and 1 R610), all with the same QLE4062c iSCSI card. I have a Fujitsu Eternus SAN with a LUN configured for each server. The 1950 and the R610 can see their respective LUNs without an issue (using the hardware initiator). I do the same setup on one of the 2950s, and it won't let me change the IP address. It says the task completes successfully, but the GUI never updates to reflect the new IP address. (it still shows 0.0.0.0, and I set it to be 192.168.2.102). All four servers are the same build of ESXi 4.0 (219382).

I restarted the VM server last night during our maintenance period, and tried setting the IP address again, and it still didn't work. I restarted it yet again, and went into the BIOS of the QLogic card, and both ports had the IP addresses I assigned them! I'm really confused here.

I reset it to the default configuration, then manually redid the addresses in the BIOS. I restarted, and now ESXi only sees one of the two ports on the HBA!!! Does anyone have any ideas here? Short of a format and reinstall, is there a way I can possibly reset those settings in ESXi?

We are using the free version of ESXi. Thanks for any assistance or advice!

[GeorgeMahesh]

Could you please check the firmware version and the driver version on the PE2950 and verify it against 1950 and R610. If you find the firmware and the driver at a lower version then I would suggest to upgrade the firmware and the driver. Please let us know if that solves your problem.

[xolotl]

I have one ESXi test server with a QLE4062c in it. I can add the iSCSI targets that I’ve created on the SAN.

It sees the volumes just fine. I can create a vmfs datastore for ESXi on it, create virtual machines and everything.

But, if I try to install an OS is that VM, it won’t format the disk. If I try to migrate a VM from a local datastore to one on the SAN, it will fail as well.

[mike7645]

hi wlentz, did you ever resolve this issue? I'm having the exact same problem with my 4062c HBAs.

[wlentz]

Actually, it kind of resolved it on its own. I made sure that the ESXi firmware was up to date, rebooted, and checked the QLogic BIOS configuration, and it actually had the IP addresses that I had set. I reset both ports back to their default settings, and then reconfigured one the way it was supposed to be, and gave the other one an off-the-wall IP address. When I rebooted, ESXi had "lost" the second port all together. Things went from bad to worse. I let it sit a few days, and then did a refresh of the storage adapters and a rescan of the HBAs, and it found the second adapter, and then I was able to configure it in the management console. Don't think I did anything really special, it just got tired of me dinking with it.