Hmm, did esx connect to it and show no files, or did it ask you if you
wanted to initialize the storage?

-Aaron

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Vasiliy Boulytchev <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gents,
>   Imagine the following scenario:
>
>
>    - ESX 3.5 sees iSCSI lun from Openfiler (2.2)
>    - Create a snapshot of this logical volume like:
>    lvcreate -L200G -s -n esxsnapshot /dev/volumegroup/storage
>    - Replicate this snapshot via dd on another volume (which is also
>    being served by iSCSI via OpenFiler)
>    dd bs=8M if=/dev/volumegroup/esxsnapshot of=/dev/volumegroup/restore
>    - /dev/volumegroup/restore and /dev/volumegroup/storage are of
>    identical size, and were created in the same manner via the Openfiler gui.
>    - This is being done for backup/restore purposes...
>
>   Now, when I rescan the ESX Storage adapter (after tweaking ietd.conf on
> Openfiler and increasing LUN ID), I see the "restore" iscsi LUN, however,
> ESX thinks its empty.
>
>   Where is the mistake?
>
> THANKS!!!
>
> Vasiliy
>
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