The Latest Gartner® Magic Quadrant™Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software
Moderators: anton (staff), art (staff), Max (staff), Anatoly (staff)
l9nux wrote:Hi,
I've just downloaded the trial (2.6.4) and it's just the application that freezes. The device I'm trying to connect to is an Overland REO 1000 virtual tape library.
The MS initiator connects to the device fine, but I wanted to use Starport because of some extra options that's available. I've tried this on an XP computer and also Windows 2003 server. Both with exactly the same results.
When Starport freezes, I can't even end the task with Task Manager. I have to reboot.
If I can't get this working then I will have to spend a fortune on the Adaptec HBA card, and with 40 servers this is not really an option due to cost.
Is this a bug with the latest version of Starport?
I was hoping that StarPort will give the option to change the target ID's, but to be honest I didn't get that far, so I'm not even sure it will work."The location for an autoloader and/or tape drive that are multi-ID based should be configured with the target ID for the loader (if applicable) lower than the target ID for the tape drive, avoiding 0 or 1 as these are generally reserved for boot devices (that is: changer = 2, tape = 3). If working with a standalone tape drive then the configuration for the SCSI location is not as much of a concern. As long as the tape drive is detected on the SCSI controller, and is (preferably) not assigned ID 0 or 1, then it should work fine."
Hi Ray,l9nux wrote:Hi Valery,
Thanks very much for your help with this. We've actually got the Overland REO 1000 on a loan, and Overland themselves told us to get a Q-Logic HBA card at £470 each. We want to connect 40 servers to this, which is crazy money!
I did look at the command line you mention, and to be honest I didn't know the correct format and it didn't work. Now you've given me the correct format I will give this another go later.
Again, thanks for all your help!
Ray.
Code: Select all
iscsicli LoginTarget iqn.2003-06.com.rocketdivision.starwind:host.ramdisk.ramdrive0 * 127.0.0.1 3260 * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1 0x0000000000000000 0 2 0
Code: Select all
iscsicli PersistentLoginTarget iqn.2003-06.com.rocketdivision.starwind:host.ramdisk.ramdrive0 * 127.0.0.1 3260 * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1 0x0000000000000000 0 2 0
l9nux wrote:Ok, I'm now having problems with this command.
iscsicli PersistentLoginTarget vtl0.changer.00e081619476.192 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1 0x0 0 2 0
When I enter this I get the following error:
Target LUN must be in 0x0123456789abcdef format
The parameter is incorrect.
I think it could be a problem with the mapping count, as I have no idea what this is? As you'll see, I've used 1 as the mapping count, but this was a guess!
Here is what I'm trying to set:
BUS: 0
Target ID: 2
Port: 3
LUN: 0
Any help with this is much apreciated!
Ray.
What's the point of using Starport if you have to first install the Microsoft iSCSI initiator and use it's command line interface?valery (staff) wrote:Ray,
The recent StarPort does not supports assigning SCSI Bus/Target/Lun values to a target.
AFAIK the MS initiator 2.0 allows this. Please refer to its documentation for more details. You need use iscsicli.exe to set up to connect your tape library and assign SCSI Bus/Target/Lun to it.
iscsicli.exe PersistentLoginTarget <TargetName> .... <Mapping Count> <Target Lun> <OS Bus> <Os Target> <OS Lun> ...
Please let me know about the results.
Hi,stuartr wrote:What's the point of using Starport if you have to first install the Microsoft iSCSI initiator and use it's command line interface?valery (staff) wrote:Ray,
The recent StarPort does not supports assigning SCSI Bus/Target/Lun values to a target.
AFAIK the MS initiator 2.0 allows this. Please refer to its documentation for more details. You need use iscsicli.exe to set up to connect your tape library and assign SCSI Bus/Target/Lun to it.
iscsicli.exe PersistentLoginTarget <TargetName> .... <Mapping Count> <Target Lun> <OS Bus> <Os Target> <OS Lun> ...
Please let me know about the results.
Are there any plans to add SCSI Bus/Target/Lun support to this product?