Hi Community,
- My environment consist of two ESXi 4.1 machines.
- Both machines have one DAS and NAS datastore.
- Both machines hosts two virtual machines (DC and vCenter) for testing purposes (I want to test vCenter Heartbeat)
- The virtual machines vCenter- and DC-VM resides on the DAS datastore.
When I use the vSphereClient and make a direct connection to the ESXi machines I can browse the NAS datastore without problems. But when I connect to the vCenter VM and try to use/browse the NAS Datastore it fails with a "Timeout" message. I tried to remove the NAS datastore on the ESXi machine when I have a direct connection to the ESXi machines.
Then I tried to create a NFS datastore via vCenter.
[2011-04-15 14:58:08.120 03008 error 'App' opID=110E0D33-000000B1] [WaitForDatastore] Timed-out while waiting to get datastore netfs://10.210.0.84//ifs/data/PS_Customers/200107/ information from host
[2011-04-15 14:58:08.195 03008 error 'App' opID=110E0D33-000000B1] vmodl.fault.SystemError
------ In-memory logs end --------
[2011-04-15 14:58:09.686 03008 info 'App' opID=110E0D33-000000B1] [VpxLRO] -- FINISH task-182 -- host-136 -- vim.host.DatastoreSystem.createNasDatastore -- 2087A1D6-4CB3-4E11-AD75-EBE50348F69F(A15B1CB4-60C5-44B5-BCBB-58CE825298B4)
[2011-04-15 14:58:09.686 03008 info 'App' opID=110E0D33-000000B1] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-182 -- host-136 -- vim.host.DatastoreSystem.createNasDatastore: vmodl.fault.SystemError:
Result:
(vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
reason = "Timed-out while waiting to get datastore information from host",
msg = "",
}
Args:
Arg spec:
(vim.host.NasVolume.Specification) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
remoteHost = "storage1.plusserver.de",
remotePath = "/ifs/data/PS_Customers/200107",
localPath = "Test",
accessMode = "readWrite",
type = "nfs",
userName = <unset>,
password = <unset>,
}
Anyway, vCenter shows the datastore, see pictures in section 1. But it's not "really accessible" , see pictures in section 2.
1)
2)
Service-Console View:
~ # esxcfg-route -l
VMkernel Routes:
Network Netmask Gateway Interface
10.254.10.240 255.255.255.240 Local Subnet vmk2
62.75.232.0 255.255.255.128 Local Subnet vmk0
10.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 Local Subnet vmk1
10.210.0.0 255.255.255.0 10.254.10.241 vmk2
default 0.0.0.0 62.75.232.1 vmk0
~ # ls -lha /vmfs/
/vmfs/devices/ /vmfs/volumes/
~ # ls -lha /vmfs/volumes/Isilon/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56 Apr 8 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Apr 15 13:19 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Apr 15 02:00 .snapshot
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 143 Apr 13 14:38 ISO Images
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18.0k Mar 23 13:47 index.html
~ #
~ # esxcfg-vmknic -l
Interface Port Group/DVPort IP Family IP Address Netmask Broadcast MAC Address MTU TSO MSS Enabled Type
vmk0 10 IPv4 62.75.232.6 255.255.255.128 62.75.232.127 00:26:2d:01:79:c6 1500 65535 true STATIC
vmk1 271 IPv4 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 10.1.1.255 00:50:56:7e:c0:9a 1500 65535 true STATIC
vmk2 655 IPv4 10.254.10.244 255.255.255.240 10.254.10.255 00:50:56:75:ef:2f 1500 65535 true STATIC
~ # esxcfg-vswitch -l
DVS Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks
dvSwitch 256 10 256 1500 vmnic7,vmnic6,vmnic5,vmnic4,vmnic1,vmnic0
DVPort ID In Use Client
1 1 vmnic0
2 0
3 0
4 0
5 0
6 0
7 0
8 0
10 1 vmk0
137 0
138 1 vmnic1
139 1 vmnic4
140 1 vmnic5
141 1 vmnic6
142 1 vmnic7
271 1 vmk1
655 1 vmk2
101 0
400 0
100 0
399 0
~ # esxcfg-nas -l
Isilon is /ifs/data/PS_Customers/200107 from storage1.plusserver.de mounted
~ #
There is one special. I added a new route via: esxcfg-route -a 10.210.0.0/24 10.254.10.241 to access the NAS datastore.
But the datastore is accessable without any problems when I make a direct connection to the ESXi machine.
Any Hints?
Thanks in advance,
Stephan