ESX 4.0 iSCSI Timeouts

[listener]

Are the following iSCSI timeouts available in ESX 4.0? I don't know where to set these now that /etc/vmkiscsi.conf no longer exists.

thanks

LoginTimeout=

AuthTimeout=

ConnFailTimeout=

DiskCommandTimeout=

[paithal · Accepted solution]

These are not tunable. Can I ask why would want to do that ?.

[listener]

In ESX 3.5 I used them with my 10g sw iscsi setup. It kept things from timeout if I had a failure (a fault) on the controller that I was using (NetApp in this case).

That's too bad they aren't tunable in 4.0. It doesn't seem to be causing huge problems yet. I'm kinda paranoid I'm going to lose a windows VM without the timeouts though.

thanks!

[paithal]

I am not clear which param would have helped you or under what scenario the parameters helped. Was it during network outage ? Cluster failover ?. I am trying to get better understanding on the problem so we may see if there is any other way to solve your issue. The problem with tuning these params is that it affects overall failover time which may lead to different issue.

[listener]

When the NetApp controller fails over from one controller head to another. Sometimes I noticed, this isn't always so quick! There's a point where the network is down, or in a waiting for state