I have 3 Esxi 6.7 hosts on Essentials Plus licensing. Using standard switche. All connextend to shared NAS storage.
only one of the three hosts successfully connects via iSCSI own connection. The other two esxi 6.7 hosts cannot connect To the same NAS datastore. . All host configured identically
what may be wrong? Why does only one host connect to the NAS while other two will not.
vCenter 6.7 connects successfully to NAS DATASTORE
Are the ESXi hosts in the same network?
Can you ping the NAS server from the esxi hosts?
HAve you tried mounting the NAS from CLI?
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What happens when they “cannot connect”?
What sort of errors do you get?
What troubleshooting have you tried?
Yes. All check fine. Pings ok
No errors. Just cannot view the DATASTORE on the two ESXi hosts. it is like the DATASTORE is not presented to the two hosts...but was presented and allowed to connect to only the one ESXi host. Cannot understand why that is happenin. VCenter also see’s the datastore
have Tested the network connection to/from NAS and the two hosts. That is fine. Uplinks and Venice in the green. ISCSI iqn appears fine. Just No Datastore even appears when trying to connect to existing storage
Is it possible that the datastore is configured via NFS instead of iSCSI?
Then you can try this:
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Some things to verify:
André
Search for a checkbox like "access multible iqn" I have seen more than one iSCSI stroage which have such a inbuild protection.
Regards,
Joerg
ConfirmEd with our storage admin. Configured iscsi
verify the iSCSI target settings on the ESXi hosts (Dynamic/Static targets)- verified. in fact, all hosts display the iqn but the datastore is not listed on some
where would I locate this setting?