On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:37:28 -0600 Michael McGlothlin <michaelm at plumbersstock.com> wrote: > I have a CentOS 5.6 server running scsi-target-utils 1.0.8 and I've > been running it as an iSCSI server to some ESXi servers for a couple > weeks. It's worked overall but has a couple issues that seem related > to it locking up when I try to add it as a target. You mean that you tried to add a new target? Or you mean that a new ESXi server tried to connect to the iSCSI server? And what locked up? tgt daemon? ESXi? You are sure that it doesn't crash instead of locking up? > I've only gotten it > to work on one of my three (identical) ESXi servers. It stops > responding when I try to add it or the connection never seems to be > made even though I see the server and targets show up in ESXi. > Occasionally it stops responding other times - possibly when under > higher than average load. One of the CPUs maxes out and never goes > back down and it just stops responding. When I target it from Windows > Server it doesn't seem to have a problem (but isn't under nearly the > same level of usage). > > I'm just teaching myself about iSCSI so I'm not sure if I'm dealing > with a mistake on my part or a bug. Not finding any obvious answer by > Googling or experimenting. I divided my disk up into <2GB chunks. My > current targets.conf looks like this: > > <target iqn.2011-07.dev:storage0> > backing-store /dev/disk0 > backing-store /dev/disk1 > backing-store /dev/disk2 > backing-store /dev/disk3 > </target> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html |