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romant
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Linux LUN not being exposed in vCenter

Am attempting to add an iSCSI LUN.

It's a Linux box presenting itself as a target. I have already several of these used, although this particular one doesn't want to be seen by ESX.

1. I add the box through Dynamic Discovery, and re-scan, the path comes up

2. I go over to devices, and the LUN isn't being offered.

3. Thought it might be an issue with it, so I checked if Windows will see it by means of an iSCSI initiator - which it does

What can be done to track down the issue?

I've checked on ESX the vmkiscsid.log and it contains:

2009-09-07-14:08:38: iscsid: Login Success: iqn.2009-08.com.ibm._server_name_.store,default,_ip_address_,3260,1, 0x0

2009-09-07-14:08:39: iscsid: connection1:0 is operational now

Any ideas? Suggestions?

Thank you.

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VMmatty
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After you add the path to the ESX host, what happens if you go to the Storage tab and click "Add Storage"? Are you able to create a VMFS partition from that new space?

Matt | http://www.thelowercasew.com | @mattliebowitz
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romant
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No, unfortunately the "Add Storage" dialog, when I select Disk/Lun - comes up empty.

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romant
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any more hints?

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romant
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Solved.

For those that someday will come across this problem.

The fault was my own. If you see one the image I uploaded with paths to the LUN:

Note that I have both LUN's exposed as LUN 0. This is because I merely copied the ietd.conf between the iSCSI targets, and didn't change the LUN id.

Lesson learnt.

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