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Stefano67
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‎05-05-2011 03:51 AM

iSCSI Lacie 5big mounte on only one ESX host

Hi all,

I have a cluster of two ESX3.5 servers. I bought a "Lacie 5big Network 2" box, with iSCSI capability.

I gave 1TB of space to iSCSI functionality.

Now the strange thing:  I added the Lacie IP to the targets of the 1st SX software iSCSI adapter and it worked,

I found th storage and was able to create a 1TB VMFS datastore. But when I perform the same steps

on the 2nd ESX server, I do not see any new storage device available, neither the already created datastore.

Obviously, I launched many "Resca all", but with no success.

What I'm doing wrong ? How can I fix this issue ?

Thank you and bye,

  Stefano

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AndreTheGiant
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‎05-13-2011 10:55 PM

I do not know this kind of storage. But on some storage you must specify that a LUN is shared between more hosts.

Check on storage options.

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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Stefano67
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‎05-16-2011 02:09 AM

On this storage you have to simply assign a disk space >0 to the iSCSI, and choose CHAP authentication if you wish, that's all. And if at least one host can mount the device then it should be working fine...

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AndreTheGiant
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‎05-16-2011 03:51 AM

Have you tried to connect only the second host? Just to see if it works?

Maybe there is firmware upgrade of your NAS.

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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Stefano67
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‎05-16-2011 08:30 AM

Yes, I configured the iSCSI initiator on both hosts, but in the second one the LUN didn't show up.

What I didn't try was completely disconnect the 1st host to see if it might interfere with the second

discovery, but I'm going to get a new one of these storage and I will perform deeper tests.

Bye,

  Stefano

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