Esxi 6 install on iscsi - Unable to setup networking for iscsi boot

[ccarstea]

Hello,

i am trying to install esxi 6 on software iscsi target but no success.

The "Select a disk..." screen don't show any disk.

I know that target is working because if i switch to ALT+F1 console i can attach iscsi disk with "vmkiscsi-tool -D -a 10.10.10.244 vmhba33" and then rescan vmhba33. Thing is that during installation the scripts are not mounting target. So, i checked the logs and found:

"jumpstart: Unable to setup networking for iscsi boot, Unable to mount iscsi target." This is the error i think. But networking is ok, we have ip, gw, hence i can mount target manually, What networking it refers of? Can you help? Thank you.

Cristian

[Udarad]

HI

Please check this KB article it might be helpful to resolve the issue VMware Knowledge Base 

Udarad

[ccarstea]

Thank you. Not helping to solve the issue. Network is ok, so the target, because i can mount it little later manually from the installation console.

Is there any way to debug more i mean increase log level on logs during installation?

I also must mention that it is a iPXE boot installation, iBFT is ok also, see screenshoots.

Looks like kernel drops networking for some reason.

Cristian