[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dying iSCSI Initiator

[Gonzalo Seoane]

very strange so i got some basic questions :

are you  using only one path ?
are you using jumbo frames ( host, storage, switch )
iscsi services are up i guess
from storage side are you able to see the initiator host ?

Gonzalo Seoane



2012/12/1 James Relph <james at themacplace.co.uk>

> Hi Gonzalo,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  Nothing in the logs on the storage server (which is
> OI151a7 so I would expect fairly decent compatibility!), and the IQNs
> definitely haven't changed.
>
> Bit of a puzzler.
>
> James
>
> Principal Consultant
> www.themacplace.co.uk
>
>
> On 30 Nov 2012, at 20:17, Gonzalo Seoane <gseoane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi james,
> > Could you check any message from storage console?
> > Check the initiator iqn mame, maybe for some reason change and iscsi
> group
> > on storage side must change.
> > Also its good to know you have scripts from storage vendors who check any
> > error on server side and solve it.
> > I dont know wich one u use ( storage )
> > El 30/11/2012 17:08, "James Relph" <james at themacplace.co.uk> escribió:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I wonder if anyone has seen this problem before.  We're running OI 151a7
> >> under VMware 5.  We had the system go down (hardware failure
> effectively)
> >> and when we brought it back up, it can no longer access any iscsi
> targets
> >> (also OI 151a7, but running on baremetal on the storage side).
> >>
> >> The system is actually unresponsive unless I boot with milestone=none
> and
> >> clear the iSCSI configuration.  The server can ping, ssh and otherwise
> >> connect fine to the storage servers, but we get lots of:
> >>
> >> iscsi discovery failure - SendTargets (x.x.x.x)
> >>
> >> errors.  If I reboot to milestone=none, I can wipe out the iSCSI config
> >> and the machine will boot fine.  In /var/adm/messages we get:
> >>
> >> iscsi session resource is in use
> >>
> >> but I can't find anything that seems relevant when searching for that.
> >>
> >> I'd be grateful for any tips!
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> James
> >>
> >> Principal Consultant
> >>
> >> Website:                www.themacplace.co.uk
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