iSCSI to ESXi - Not seeing device

[darrenb]

Hi there,

I've been trying to make an iscsi lun, without success, using both file and device extents. I've followed numerous guides, using version 7, 8, and now the latest beta 3.

This is the last guide I followed:
http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-configure-freenas-8-for-iscsi-and-connect-to-esxi/


I add the target address into "dynamic discovery", then it scans and finds the target:

However, it doesn't show up under devices:

Any ideas? I'm not sure what else to check.

 

[drossi]

Try following the advice in this thread:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=9264

Basically, you need to populate the optional vendor, product and serial number fields when setting up the iSCSI target in FreeNAS. Providing these values makes it unnecessary for ESXi to auto-generate its own device names while discovering new targets/devices.

Hope this helps!

 

[survive]

Hi darrenb,

Are you running 8.0 or an 8.0.1 Beta release?

If you can try 8.0.1 Beta4...the iscsi software was updated in one of them and there were some other improvements made that corrected a number of problems.

-Will

 

[Khue]

Hey everybody. I am kind of new around here but this post seems to be illustrating some issues that I am going through right now. I too found the guide referenced in the OP and I don't seem to be able to get my ESX server to connect to the FreeNAS box. I have some subtle differences in my configuration. I am running ESX 4.0.0 261974 (basically ESX Update 2 with no patches) along with vCenter 4 update 1. I feel like I am missing just one important step but I can't figure it out as my production environment deals with fiber channel and not iSCSI. Rather then start a new post, I figured I'd just try to keep suggestions coming in this one. Any and all help is welcome! Thanks!

EDIT: Figured it out. Make sure you have your vmkernal network setup properly. My vmkernal network for iSCSI was setup on the wrong VLAN.