[OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-08-11 11:13, James Relph wrote:
> Hi Ed, Chip,
>
> Thanks for the responses, it was basically to see whether people had been having any compatibility issues with Oi as backend storage.  We've seen datastore disconnects in the ESXi hosts over both iSCSI and NFS, and it seemed odd that there'd be the same problems across both protocols.  Didn't really show up in testing and I've seen other people  running this kind of setup without issue, so it was really a question to see if there were any other people seeing the same thing.  At the same time as the hosts were seeing disconnects we had other machines using the same iSCSI targets without any errors at all, so it is all a bit odd.

Maybe something with networking? Like trunked connections and some
links going down (temporarily) and hash-routed packets to them are
not delivered properly (until the failure is detected or clink comes
back up)? Possibly, if a master (first) interface on an aggregation
becomes lost, there may also be fun with MAC address changes...

Wild shots in the dark, though not completely without practical basis ;)

HTH,
//Jim