Hopefully someone can help me out. I've set up software iscsi initiators in ESX many times, but in the 3.5 release I'm getting strange errors about not finding valid OIDs. I know that the device changed from vmhba40 to vmhba32, but it doesn't seem to matter. I've also noticed what look like some new vmkiscsi commands, but they aren't documented, even -h doesn't do anything. A manpage would be nice. I have setup the iscsi portgroup on a separate vSwitch and I included a service console vswif on the same subnet/vSwitch. Any help would be great, I'm probably just missing something simple. I'm using the Solaris 10 iscsi target
# esxcfg-swiscsi -e
Enabling software iSCSI...
# esxcfg-firewall -e swISCSIClient
# vmkiscsi-tool -D -a 10.10.15.1 vmhba32
Could not find valid OIDs for adapter vmhba32
# vmkiscsi-tool -D -a 10.10.15.1 vmhba40
Could not find valid OIDs for adapter vmhba40
# esxcfg-vswitch -l
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks
vSwitch0 64 4 64 1500 vmnic0
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
VM Network 3 0 vmnic0
Service Console 3 1 vmnic0
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks
vSwitch1 64 5 64 1500 vmnic1
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
iscsi 15 1 vmnic1
SC_iscsi 15 1 vmnic1
# esxcfg-vmknic -l
Interface Port Group IP Address Netmask Broadcast MAC Address MTU TSO MSS Enabled
vmk2 iscsi 10.10.15.3 255.255.255.240 10.10.15.15 00:50:56:75:5a:6f 1500 40960 true
# esxcfg-vswif -l
Name Port Group IP Address Netmask Broadcast Enabled DHCP
vswif0 Service Console 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.0 10.10.10.255 true false
vswif1 SC_iscsi 10.10.15.2 255.255.255.240 10.10.15.15 true false
On the Solaris BOX ###
# iscsitadm list target -v
Target: iscsi01
iSCSI Name: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:1d2b6b1b-3ae8-cf8b-def2-b9510a319768.iscsi01
Connections: 0
ACL list:
TPGT list:
LUN information:
LUN: 0
GUID: 0
VID: SUN
PID: SOLARIS
Type: disk
Size: 270G
Backing store: /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/iscsi_lun0
Status: online
