Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:34:07 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as iSCSI target and VMWare ESX Message-ID: <20160622093407.GA2108@brick> In-Reply-To: <547bf99b-6425-2a99-b4e8-eaa7d88406ab@norma.perm.ru> References: <547bf99b-6425-2a99-b4e8-eaa7d88406ab@norma.perm.ru>
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On 0621T0835, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > > Guys, does someone have experience with multiple LUNs on a target in > ctld ? Recently I was installing ESX on a bunch of diskless hosts, > connected to FreeBSD ctld. I was organizing them inside one target, > multiple LUNs. As soon as the _count_ of LUNS went over 9, the whole > thing went crazy - ESX were unable to install, showing multiple errors > and not showing more than 10 LUNs from FreeBSD (and they were 11), and > even the last one created was unsuitable for installation. As soon as I > placed these "extra" LUNs inside the separate targets and LUN 0, > everything went back to normal. I understand completely this sounds like > a bad dream. I checked the VMWare limitations > (https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf) > - seems like it's supporting 256 LUNs per server. I've also checked > their "iSCSI Best Practices Guide" and nowhere is says "use one LUN from > a target". It's not fair to suspect FreeBSD from the start, but this ML > is a much more frendlier place (at least I feel it to be so) - so, does > anyone have experience providing more than 9 LUNs from a target ? > Because I don't - prior to this I was providing one LUN from each > target, and it seems that I will continue to do so. Do you see anything in the system logs, on either the ESX or FreeBSD side?
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