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leif_hannusas
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Succesful iSCSI connection with FreeNAS?

Hello

Is there someone how has made a successful software iSCSI target with FreeNAS to ESX 3?

Are there someother free solution with software iSCSI target that i can use with ESX 3?

Best Regards Leif

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esiebert7625
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You might check out this rather long post...

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=613475&#613475

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Dave_Mishchenko
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There's a post on this thread about it not properly hanlding locking so it can't be used. Might have changed since that was February.

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=573792&#573792

Here's a post with some other options

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=621668&#621668

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promaster
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Yes, with freenas version 0.685b1

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leif_hannusas
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Yes, with freenas version 0.685b1

But did it work i the previous release version of freeness?

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promaster
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No, got some error (invalid iscsi command ??) in freenas log.

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Mad_HADR
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iscsi-target works fine.

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timerace
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Did you use a ISCSI vmfs volume or ISCSI within the vmware guest?

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RParker
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Well not sure about everyone else, but Free NAS never worked for us (and we have several people that know a lot about Linux).

We finally installed Suse 10 ES and that worked perfectly.

Free NAS works great for everything else BUT iSCSI, and Suse did the trick in our case. We were even able to get it work with Apple machines.

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chillyhead
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I have Openfiler setup on a pc with one 80GB SATA drive configured as a single iSCSI volume and it works very well. The PC has a gigabit nic as well as the ESX server so it's very quick.

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leif_hannusas
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Hello,

iSCSI did work for me in FreeNAS v 0.685b1 without any problem at all compare to the earlier version i use.

Thanks for the help!

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