ESX hides replicas of file systems by default so you don't Do Something Stupid.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_iscsi_san_cfg.pdf Page 117 - VMFS Volume Resignaturing, DisallowSnapshotLUN, etc. Cheers, Luke Smith From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Stranberg Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 11:55 AM To: Vasiliy Boulytchev Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OF-users] ESX/iSCSI storage replication 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 _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
