VMware ESXi 5.5 and FreeNAS 8.3 Incompatible iSCSI Implementation

[cyberjock]

Nope. jpaetzel just confirmed it isn't in FreeNAS 9.2.0. It was going to be, but then they figured out the latency issues were more with ZFS, so that's what they worked on instead.

 

[jgreco]

Interesting. For something that isn't there, it sure looks like it's there... iscsid, iscsictl, ctld, etc., are all there. I haven't actually verified the kernel module is functional.

I think Josh maybe meant that the new subsystem wasn't being exposed to users yet. That's a totally typical FreeNASism.

 

[cyberjock]

Here's exactly what he said:

[17:25] jpaetzel cyberjock: kernel iscsi was one possibility
[17:25] jpaetzel cyberjock: however we discovered that ZFS was more to blame than the iscsi daemon
[17:25] jpaetzel for latency problems
[17:26] jpaetzel so we fixed zfs

 

[jgreco]

Okay, that's nice and great and all. Doesn't seem to contradict. I just wish it was easier to determine what the referenced problem WAS and what the resolution was. Argh.

 

[jgreco]

fwiw the kernel iSCSI stuff went in on Oct 26 2013.