adding iscsi storage throws error

[santosh42]

Hi,

I am using a ESX 4.1 server.

I have configured the iSCSI storage adapter in the ESX in order to access iscsi disk.

The iscsi adapter shows the right details of the iscsi disk.

Then i tried to add the storage by selecting "add disk/lun" and selecting the iscsi disk.

When i click "finish", i get a error message :

"Call "HostDatastoreSystem.CreateVmfsDatastore" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESX  failed.
Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to create Filesystem, please see VMkernel log for more details."

I monitored the vmkernel log and noticed the below message along with other errors too.

"Power-on Reset occurred on t10.FreeBSD_iSCSI_DISK______10000001_"

Attaching the vmkernel log.

Any idea what configuration i am missing on ESX side/iSCSI server side.

Thanks.

[Hanoon]

Is this the first target you trying to add, I had a simillar error when I added a target and changed some configs on the iscsi side then tried to add it again with a different name - solution was by disable iscsi services and reboot host then re-add the target..

other than than I did read some article discussed removing the gpt label and recreate the vmfs3 volume on the LUN.!

[santosh42]

thanks and sorry for coming bak late.

I figured out the reason for the issue.

- on the iscsi target i had not covered the ESX host IP as part of the "initiators list" and thus it failed everytime i tried to add the iscsi disk from ESX host.

Thanks.