a Little How To Request for ESX and Starwind

[damian.flynn]

Hi,

I have been playing for the last hour with no progress attempting to get my ESX server to communicate and mount my Starwind iSCSI.

Starwind has no information in the log to indicate that ESX is actually communicating or attempting to challange a password connection. I have windows firewall disabled on the Starwind side.

has anyone pointeres of a simply how to?

thanks
Damian

[anton (staff)]

Can you connect to the StarWind in a loopback from the Windows initiator? Can you connect to the StarWind machine from the machine running ESX (other initiator, not ESX built-in one)?

Hi,

I have been playing for the last hour with no progress attempting to get my ESX server to communicate and mount my Starwind iSCSI.

Starwind has no information in the log to indicate that ESX is actually communicating or attempting to challange a password connection. I have windows firewall disabled on the Starwind side.

has anyone pointeres of a simply how to?

thanks
Damian

[damian.flynn]

Good Call,

I intalled MS 2.04 software and was able to mount the target

We can see the connection was accepted, i need to investigate further but there appears to be no connection sourcing from esx.....

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7/31 12:58:00.984 af8 conf: Target [0x00000000000DBA90] has been created. Device 'ImageFile0' is accesible as target 'esx-image01'.

7/31 14:35:51.078 bdc Srv: Accepted iSCSI connection from 192.168.1.10:1579. (Id = 0x1)

7/31 14:35:51.078 bdc C[1], FREE: Event - CONNECTED.

7/31 14:35:51.078 bdc C[1], XPT_UP: T3.

7/31 14:35:51.078 ae0 C[1], XPT_UP: Login request: ISID 0x400001370000, TSIH 0x0000.

7/31 14:35:51.078 ae0 C[1], XPT_UP: Event - LOGIN.

7/31 14:35:51.078 ae0 C[1], IN_LOGIN: T4.

[damian.flynn]

I need a kick - thanks anton - it helps to have the swiches connected

god i feel stupid.

[anton (staff)]

He-he... At least it's better then just go to shades and tell "it works now and I have no clue what was it" )

I need a kick - thanks anton - it helps to have the swiches connected

god i feel stupid.

[Bohdan (staff)]

I think you should configure iSCSI initiator.

iSCSI Initiators
To access remote targets, your ESX Server host uses iSCSI initiators. Initiators transport SCSI requests and responses between the ESX Server system and the target storage device on the IP network.
ESX Server supports hardware-based and software-based iSCSI initiators:
• Hardware iSCSI initiator – A third-party host bus adapter (HBA) with the iSCSI over TCP/IP capability. This specialized iSCSI adapter is responsible for all iSCSI processing and management. Currently, ESX Server supports only QLogic QLA4010 iSCSI HBA.
• Software iSCSI initiator – A code built into VMkernel that lets your ESX Server system to connect to the iSCSI storage device through standard network adapters. The software initiator handles the iSCSI processing while communicating with the network adapter through the network stack. With the software initiator, you can use the iSCSI technology without purchasing specialized hardware.

So, use either built-in initiator or hardware initiator. Please, read "Configuring iSCSI Software Initiator" section of VMware Infrastructure 3 Online Library to enable and configure the initiator.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vi301/wwhelp/wwh ... wwhelp.htm

[anton (staff)]

Bohdan, guy just did not have switch connected )

[damian.flynn]

I have a test installation of MS Centro started - nice work!

[anton (staff)]

We're all happy you're happy

I have a test installation of MS Centro started - nice work!