Help: redhat3u9 x64 guest os hung on VMware ESX 4 with kernel: mptbase&mptscsih error

[dandandongdong]

Hi,

I am running redhat3u9 x64 guest os on vmware ESX 4 host.

redhat3u9 x64 guest os is sanboot os with LSI Logic scsi type.

And add three harddisk for it as below:

hard disk 2 RDM LSI Logic (0:1)

hard disk 3 vmfs LSI Logic (0:2)

hard disk 4 vmfs LSI Logic SAS (1:0)

Run IO on these three disks.

I found after doing some case on storage, found redhat3u9 hung without response. After power off/on, check the /var/log/messages,

found following error:

Oct 7 20:31:33 rhel3u9x64 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid

215992636, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 01 44 d0 00 02 b8 00

Oct 7 20:31:33 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=2 OldAbort: scheduling

ABORT SCSI IO (sc=000001003f714000)

Oct 7 20:31:34 rhel3u9x64 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid

215992637, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 01 47 90 00 02 b8 00

Oct 7 20:31:35 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=2 OldAbort: scheduling

ABORT SCSI IO (sc=000001003f714800)

Oct 7 20:31:35 rhel3u9x64 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid

215992638, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 01 4a 50 00 02 b8 00

Oct 7 20:31:36 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=2 OldAbort: scheduling

ABORT SCSI IO (sc=000001003f713800)

Oct 7 20:31:38 rhel3u9x64 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid

215992639, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 01 4d 10 00 02 c0 00

Oct 7 20:31:39 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=2 OldAbort: scheduling

ABORT SCSI IO (sc=000001003f711c00)

Oct 7 20:31:39 rhel3u9x64 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid

215992640, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 01 4f d8 00 02 c0 00

Oct 7 20:31:39 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=2 OldAbort: scheduling

ABORT SCSI IO (sc=000001003f709c00)

Oct 7 20:31:39 rhel3u9x64 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid

215992641, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 01 52 a0 00 02 c0 00

Oct 7 20:31:39 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=2 OldAbort: scheduling

ABORT SCSI IO (sc=000001003f70cc00)

Oct 7 20:31:39 rhel3u9x64 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid

215992642, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 01 55 68 00 02 c0 00

Oct 7 20:31:40 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=2 OldAbort: scheduling

ABORT SCSI IO (sc=000001003f715000)

Oct 7 20:31:40 rhel3u9x64 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid

215992643, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 01 58 30 00 02 c0 00

Oct 7 20:31:40 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=2 OldAbort: scheduling

ABORT SCSI IO (sc=000001003f712800)

Oct 7 20:31:41 rhel3u9x64 kernel: mptbase: ioc0: WARNING - IOCStatus(0x004b):

SCSI IOC Terminated

I also tested redhat3u9 x86, it was ok.

Can anyonw help about this problem? Does it a LSI Logic driver issue?

Many thanks.

[TobiasKracht]

You have a timeout while connecting to iSCSI.

StarWind Software R&D

[dandandongdong]

Since this is caused by timeout, so anyone know how to change the timeout parameter for disk?

thanks.

[athlon_crazy]

I think you can edit the timeout on your iscsi.conf or iscsid.conf(openiscsi)

vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta

vcbMC-1.0.7 Lite

[dandandongdong]

Do not use iscsi, I add hard disks with LSI Logic scsi controller type to Guest os. Looks like no configuration file could be modified.

Much appreciate further message.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Correlate the issues within the VM to any issues within the vmkernel by comparing these errors to those in vmware.log for the VM as well /var/log/vmkernel. You may have issues unrelated to the VM itself.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009

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