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Elitoh
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esx3i and openfiler 2.3

Tried to setup and openfiler iscsi server today and failed a few times. I have done alot of searching and did not find much besides the the petri method. I am failing big time. For some reason it will not connect I can ping the openfiler box from my vms but when I go to setup iscsi on the esxi server it just wont find it. Does anyone know or have a good tutorial for this type of setup?

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jasonlitka
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From a clean install of OpenFiler 2.3:

1a. Create Physical volume on a single disk

1b. Create Software RAID volumes on multiple disks and create an array

2. Add volumes from #1 into a Volume Group

3. Create an iSCSI volume in the VG from #2

4. Start the "iSCSI target server" service

5. Add a network entry for the client machine (or local subnet if private) at the bottom of "System > Network Setup"

6. Click "iSCSI Targets" on the Volumes page

7. Click "Add" to create a new target.

8. Click "Lun Mapping"

9. Click "Map"

10. Click "Network ACL"

11. Change the combo box for your network to "Allow".

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kriewald
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Just to check your openfiler configuration:

Can you mount a iscsi volume with windows (microsoft initiator)?

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guyrleech
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I found this excellent article on Doug Brown's site and followed it:

However, I had the same issue as you in that the OpenFiler box seemed to be happy but ESXi wouldn't see the volumes I had created. A Vista iSCSI Initiator also refused to see anything exported from OpenFiler so I suspect the problem is with OpenFiler. I haven't used OpenFiler before, I've used the iSCSI Enterprise Target (IET) on a "standard" SuSE distribution which worked fine with ESX at least.

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jasonlitka
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From a clean install of OpenFiler 2.3:

1a. Create Physical volume on a single disk

1b. Create Software RAID volumes on multiple disks and create an array

2. Add volumes from #1 into a Volume Group

3. Create an iSCSI volume in the VG from #2

4. Start the "iSCSI target server" service

5. Add a network entry for the client machine (or local subnet if private) at the bottom of "System > Network Setup"

6. Click "iSCSI Targets" on the Volumes page

7. Click "Add" to create a new target.

8. Click "Lun Mapping"

9. Click "Map"

10. Click "Network ACL"

11. Change the combo box for your network to "Allow".

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jasonlitka
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BTW... The network configuration options used on the link posted by guyrleech are wrong. Both entries are identical and allow all of 192.168.2.x.

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Elitoh
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That Link was great. Didn't get me up and running though. Fortunately and unfortunately thats the way I did it to begin with. If I am understanding correctly Openfiler will take any disks and make them connectable to via iScsi. Correct?I will try the MS initiator and see where the problem lies.

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Elitoh
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The Correct answer goes to "litkaj". I was missing one ESSENTIAL step which none of the how to's that I read mentioned. The link that was provided did mention it as well but originally not few that I read. Anyway I mapped it and everything is working now. Thank you guys for the help.

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jasonlitka
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No problem. If you have OpenFiler-specific problems check out our forums as what I posted was a copy-and-paste from something I'd told another user a couple weeks back (I'm one of the moderators over there).

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