VMware Cloud Community
ralph44
Contributor
Contributor
‎10-07-2009 06:16 AM

ISCSI FREE NAS error during the configuration of the host Unable to get FS Attrs For /vmfs/vol

I just installed Free NAS iscsi, I had it working in the ESXi 3.5 environment with no problems: I can't get it to work in my ESXi 4 64 bit environment. I installed Free NAS with no problem and its running. I was able to set it up in the storage adapter and now when I go to the Storage to add storage and select the Disk/LUN I see it with no problem and I go to next and format and I come up with this error. See attached. I also took this from my message logs.

Oct 7 12:50:42 iscsid: Kernel reported iSCSI connection 1:0 error (1008) state

Oct 7 12:50:42 vmkernel: 0:15:50:13.572 cpu7:210478)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivm

Oct 7 12:50:42 vmkernel: 0:15:50:13.572 cpu7:210478)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivm

Oct 7 12:50:42 vmkernel: 0:15:50:13.572 cpu7:210478)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivm

Oct 7 12:50:42 vobd: Oct 07 12:50:42.217: 57013571855us: [vprob.storage.connect

Oct 7 12:50:42 Hostd: [2009-10-07 12:50:42.217 2CD4EB90 verbose 'StorageSystem'

Oct 7 12:50:42 Hostd: Eve

Oct 7 12:50:42 vmkernel: 0:15:50:14.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:42 vmkernel: 0:15:50:14.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:42 vmkernel: 0:15:50:14.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:43 vmkernel: 0:15:50:15.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:43 vmkernel: 0:15:50:15.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:43 vmkernel: 0:15:50:15.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:44 vmkernel: 0:15:50:16.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:44 vmkernel: 0:15:50:16.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:44 vmkernel: 0:15:50:16.298 cpu3:4342)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttem

Oct 7 12:50:45 vmkernel: 0:15:50:16.589 cpu7:210478)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivm

Oct 7 12:50:45 iscsid: connection1:0 is operational after recovery (2 attempts)

Oct 7 12:50:45 vmkernel: 0:15:50:16.589 cpu7:210478)WARNING: iscsi_vmk: iscsivm

Preview file
23 KB
Reply
0 Kudos
3 Replies
TimPhillips
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎10-07-2009 07:57 AM

FreeNAS is even worse as iSCSI solution than, OpenFiler. I would you recommend to use any other software target - StarWind, Datacore, Lefthand, etc...

Reply
0 Kudos
ralph44
Contributor
Contributor
‎10-07-2009 12:23 PM

, Thanks for that I will give it a try. Again this is just for testing for one VM and 2 hosts. I had it working great in ESX 3.5. I think when I added the second HD to the free nas VM that it's not compatible with ESXi 4 as I have a third Host with ESXi 3.5 (on it in my other data center in Vsphere) and it picked it up fine. Is there a legacy setting to check? Thanks again for your help and let me know what you thing as far as this is concerned.

Reply
0 Kudos
dilidolo
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎10-07-2009 01:05 PM

You may want to try Opensolaris as well, it works very well with ESX/ESXi, even supports SCSI-3 persistent reservation which almost all opensource iSCSI implementations lack. The downside is that it requires good hardware to run well, suck as 64bit CPU, lots of ram, good controller (not those crappy VIA, jmicron, etc.). It doesn't have web based management, but they have good documents.

I use opensolaris as my storage server for my test lab with NFS, iSCSI and FC.

Reply
0 Kudos