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llevon
Apr 19, 2011Aspirant
iSCSI Authorization failure
We purchased a Readynas 3100 of 8TB (5.5 TB usable storage) to use in an ESX environment of 4 ESXi servers and 25 VMs. (mainly linux, but a couple of windows servers as well.) -I created 1 iSCSI t...
llevon
Apr 21, 2011Aspirant
Thanks for the info you send via PM.
My problem is solved now but I want to share the solution.
The problem was this:
-Whan installing the ESX server I gave it an uppercase name.
In the IQN information, you see the hostname as part of the IQN name and it shows the hostname in uppercase.
So I did a copy-paste of that IQN name for the Access Control configuration to avoid typos.
But it seems that an IQN name is ALWAYS LOWERCASE, (This is iSCSI standard i did not know) regardless what ESX shows what the IQN name is.
I changed the IQN name to lowercase in the ReadyNAS and the volumes are now visible on the ESX server.
Maybe this could be a tip for future firmwares, to do a check when someone is entering an IQN that everything is lowercase and if needed automatically change all uppercase to lowercase.
My problem is solved now but I want to share the solution.
The problem was this:
-Whan installing the ESX server I gave it an uppercase name.
In the IQN information, you see the hostname as part of the IQN name and it shows the hostname in uppercase.
So I did a copy-paste of that IQN name for the Access Control configuration to avoid typos.
But it seems that an IQN name is ALWAYS LOWERCASE, (This is iSCSI standard i did not know) regardless what ESX shows what the IQN name is.
I changed the IQN name to lowercase in the ReadyNAS and the volumes are now visible on the ESX server.
Maybe this could be a tip for future firmwares, to do a check when someone is entering an IQN that everything is lowercase and if needed automatically change all uppercase to lowercase.
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