Free Nas 8.0 and iscsi, but not working :( Help please!!!!

[dashpuppy]

Yeah, this is not working to well for me, fresh install,

I do this :

then go to do this :

and i don't get anything in the drop down, its blank.

following this guide :(

http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-configure-freenas-8-for-iscsi-and-connect-to-esxi/

 

[ProtoSD]

I think in the guide there are actually 5 disks, but the screen shot only shows 4 because 'ada5' is his SSD disk which is not part of his ZFS volume.

Do you have a total of 5 disks? The 5th disk is what should be in the drop down I believe.

 

[Tekkie]

Read the wiki page in detail and follow each step to the letter ;) I had the same problem as you until it hit me that I'd conveniently skipped a step.

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/ISCSI#Device_and_File_Extents is the step I believe you skipped, you must either create file extents which you can do on you 'myshare' volume or you must create a zvol (http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes#Creating_a_zvol) which will then present it self in the dialogue you show above.

 

[ProtoSD]

Good catch Tekkie. When I first started to reply before I was almost going to say that, but an impulse about the screen shot made me change my answer.

 

[dashpuppy]

Read the wiki page in detail and follow each step to the letter ;) I had the same problem as you until it hit me that I'd conveniently skipped a step.

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/ISCSI#Device_and_File_Extents Is the past I believe you skipped, you must either create file extents which you can do on you 'myshare' volume or you must create a zvol (http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes#Creating_a_zvol) which will then present it self in the dialogue you show above.

thank you for this, i just tried it :( and it didn't work, kept coming up with, ive been struggling with this for the last week :(

Error,

All im trying to do is setup a iscsi target box with 4 targets on it, my box consists of 6 500 gig hard drives raided together in freenas, and then after this is done id like to have 4 different iscsi targets one to each box.

Is there a step for step document or wikki link ?

 

[tropic]

I have a volume mounted as /mnt/storage, and I'd like to offer a couple iSCSI targets to VMs. Here's how I'd create the file extents:

Extent Name: guest01
Path to Extent: /mnt/storage/iscsi/guest01
Extent Size: 501GB
Comment:

Extent Name: guest02
Path to Extent: /mnt/storage/iscsi/guest02
Extent Size: 201GB
Comment:

 

[Tekkie]

thank you for this, i just tried it :( and it didn't work, kept coming up with, ive been struggling with this for the last week :(

Error,

All im trying to do is setup a iscsi target box with 4 targets on it, my box consists of 6 500 gig hard drives raided together in freenas, and then after this is done id like to have 4 different iscsi targets one to each box.

Is there a step for step document or wikki link ?

Your forte is definitely not reading eyh? .... My reply contains 2 wiki links, one of them directing you to the iSCSI wiki page!

But anyway your problem is that you didn't follow this instruction:

you must either create file extents which you can do on you 'myshare' volume

e.g. your 'Path to the extent' must be: /mnt/myshare/WHAT_EVER_NAME_YOU_LIKE_TO_GIVE_THE_FILE_EXTENT