Problem with iSCSI Virtual Machines

[RobinBones]

Hello, I am new to ESXi, I just installed 3.5 U4.

I went into settings, turned on iSCSI, attached to my software SAN (tried both starport, and iSCSI cake). I created a virtual machine with the "raw" hdd type, selected my LUN. When I try to boot the machine I get a single "_" in the console. I don't see a POST screen.

In my loggs I see messages like this

Task Created : haTask-ha-host-vim.DiagnosticManager.browse-66

Task Completed : haTask-ha-host-vim.DiagnosticManager.browse-66

These message go from 45-960, at 960 the system seemed to freeze. Any thoughts as to what could be causing this issue?

I just retried with the same messages, but started at a lower number in the 20's

[Jackobli]

What do you want to achieve with this kind of setup?

Do you have an already configured operating system on that lun?

Usually you would activate iSCSI and then create a datastore with a VMFS on it.

Then you would use this datastore to create virtual machines on it.

[RobinBones]

Thanks for the response, I was using a local datastore, and tried mapping an iSCSI lun as a drive for a virtual XP machine.

the XP machine was hanging at boot, but I think that was due to changing the HDD controler type.

I created a datastore on the iSCSI LUN, and it worked fine, thanks.

FYI, the errors I was getting had nothing to do with my iscsi problem, I think that isjust a bug when navigating to the error log.