Tano wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the iscsitarget or zfs. I'd greatly > appreciate it if it gets moved to the proper list. > > Well I'm just about out of ideas on what might be wrong.. > > Quick history: > > I installed OS 2008.05 when it was SNV_86 to try out ZFS with VMWare. Found > out that multilun's were being treated as multipaths so waited till SNV_94 > came out to fix the issues with VMWARE and iscsitadm/zfs shareiscsi=on. > > I Installed OS2008.05 on a virtual machine as a test bed, pkg image-update to > SNV_94 a month ago, made some thin provisioned partitions, shared them with > iscsitadm and mounted on VMWare without any problems. Ran storage VMotion and > all went well. > > So with this success I purchased a Dell 1900 with a PERC 5/i controller 6 x > 15K SAS DRIVEs with ZFS RAIDZ1 configuration. I shared the zfs partitions and > mounted them on VMWare. Everything is great till I have to write to the disks. > > It won't write! >
What's the error exactly? What step are you performing to get the error? Creating the vmfs3 filesystem? Accessing the mountpoint? > > Steps I took creating the disks > > 1) Installed mega_sas drivers. > 2) zpool create tank raidz c5t0d0 c5t1d0 c5t2d0 c5t3d0 c5t4d0 c5t5d0 > 3) zfs create -V 1TB tank/disk1 > 4) zfs create -V 1TB tank/disk2 > 5) iscsitadm create target -b /dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/disk1 LABEL1 > 6) iscsitadm create target -b /dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/disk2 LABEL2 > > Now both drives are lun 0 but with uniqu VMHBA device identifiers. SO they > are detected as seperate drives. > > I then redid (deleted) step 5 and 6 and changed it too > > 5) iscsitadm create target -u 0 -b /dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/disk1 LABEL1 > 6) iscsitadm create target -u 1 -b /dev/zvol/rdsk/tank/disk2 LABEL1 > > VMWARE discovers the seperate LUNs on the Device identifier, but still unable > to write to the iscsi luns. > > Why is it that the steps I've conducted in SNV_94 work but in SNV_97,98, or > 99 don't. > > Any ideas?? any log files I can check? I am still an ignorant linux user so I > only know to look in /var/log :) > The relevant errors from /var/log/vmkernel on the ESX server would be helpful. Also, iscsitadm list target -v Also, I blogged a bit on OpenSolaris iSCSI & VMware ESX ....I was using b98 on a X4500. http://blogs.sun.com/rarneson/entry/zfs_clones_iscsi_and_vmware > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- Ryan Arneson Sun Microsystems, Inc. 303-223-6264 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/rarneson _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
