Freenas 8 Release & ESXi 5.0.0 iSCSI

[pereuko]

Has anyone tried to connect ESXi 5 to Freenas using iSCSI? I had iSCSI up and running for couple weeks. I upgraded from ESXi 4.1u1 to 5.0.0 and I can't reconnect the iSCSI LUN. Autodiscovery works fine, the target shows up on the properties screen but I can't get it to show up under available devices/paths.

There are several people in vmware forums with same issue: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1819270#1819270

Under 4.1 Update 1 - Dynamic Discovery detects the targets correctly and presents all extents. The extents mounted work as expected.

Under 5.0 - Dynamic Discovery discovers correctly discovers the target but fails to detect any extents(paths/devices) associated with the target.

Update:

I found a post in the bug forum from 5 days ago, should have checked that section sooner. :)

Also listed in the 8.0.1-RC1 Errata:
iSCSI doesn't work with VMWare ESXi 5.0. An update to the iSCSI target software that addresses this issue will be available before 8.0.1-RELEASE.
​

Update 2:

Resolved - Updating to 8.0.1 RC2 fixed the issue.​

 

[newmember]

Just something I noticed in the ESXi logs, there was this error:


Login to iSCSI target iqn.2011-03.peachtree.istgt:freenas2 on vmhba39 @ vmk0 failed.
The iSCSI initiator could not establish a network connection to the target.
error
06/09/2011 1:58:43 AM
localhost.home.local



Same target works fine for 4.1u1 ESXi

 

[ssantosh78]

I have tried "FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC1-amd64 (7508)" which I used for my FreeNAS NFS share configuration for iSCSI but no luck. So I have downloaded & installed new build i.e. "FreeNAS-8r7622-amd64.iso" from https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8-nightly/ & it workd like charm.
Check below guide for more help,
http://www.mytricks.in/2011/09/guide-configuring-freenas-8-for-iscsi.html