I setup openfiler and have that working so that i can connect to it with Microsoft iSCSI Initiator (to see if i setup openfiler the right way). That worked.
Now i want to add that iSCSI disk to my storage group but can not get that to work. In Networking i have a VMKernel port with Vmotion enabled.
Under storage i enabled the iSCSI software adapter, When i add the IP of the Target (the openfiler box) it scans but does not find a target.
I am using the latest version of ESXi. Who can help me in the right direction?
Thank you.
Robert
Thank you
I did follow that document and also the whitepaper from VMWare
But no luck yet
Robert
And the IP address of your ESX server has been configured to be allowed from within Openfiler etc (as per your other host via MS iSCSI initiator)...
Yes I am allowing the whole network
The console will also need to reach the openfiler iSCSI target IP. This is required so the sendtargets and authentication functions can occur.
You should see this TCP/IP activity using
tcpdump -i vswifX where X is the SC interface to the openfiler network e.g. vswif1 for the second console if it's on a separate network.
on the host look for port 3260 in the dump
Also make sure the MS initiator is disconnected and did not scan for a connection or it will prevent the vmware host from connecting.
In ESXi network configuration is simplified a bit - the Console and VMkernel are no longer configured separately but instead use the same network configurations.
Oh! I jumped to a conclusion of ESX. Only the MS initiator connection is relavent.
Pings are a good validation, I would make sure to restart the openfiler host and then restart the ESXi host right after it's up.
netstat is also a good connection validation tool.
I had the same problem. I have to allow the iscsi access to every server, not to the whole network.
In my example
172.16.0.0 Sub 255.255.0.0 (that don´t work)
172.16.10.210 (sub 255.255.255.255) esx1 (this works)
172.16.10.211 (sub 255.255.255.255) esx2 (this works)
I changed the openfiler ACL and only gave the ESXi server access.
after this i rebooted the openfiler server and when it was back up i rebooted the esxi server.
Still no success. in this post i added 3 screen shots, I will put 3 more after this.
Check the ESX firewall security settings and verify that the iSCSI client is allowed.
I do not have that version running at this location.
It may only be relevent to ESX.
Just checked - it's not relevent to ESXi
Message was edited by: mike.laspina
Do you have authentication disabled?
Not at this point. I would do that later when everything is in a known state.
I am really stuck, anyone a suggestion?