Problem to configure iSCSI with VMWare ESX 3.5

[bomberx]

Hello,
I have configured my DSS Lite has iSCSI Target but I cannot access it with my VMWare ESX 3.5...
Does anybody configure it succesfully in this settings ?

[To-L]

I saw this in another post

I am running dss-lite in a vm.

1) Download DSS-lite and complete usb installation
2) Download WinImage (30 day demo works fine)
3) plug in usb key and launch WinImage
4) In WinImage, select "Disk" --> "Create Virtual Hard Disk from physical drive"

select your usb disk from the pop-up, click o.
type in desired file name and make sure to select "VMware *.vmdk" as the file type.
let it cook.

5) go into vmware (server/workstation) and create a new vmachine, select the CUSTOM option.

Select "Linux" and then "other linux" from the drop down box. Type in your vm name, select location,go through the standard steps,etc...

Select LSI Logic as the I/O adapter. At the select a disk, select "Use an existing virtual disk", browse to the vmdk file created in step 4 and select it. It will complete. Edit the vm by adding another hard drive to use as your data store for testing. Good luck.

[BigD]

I have got my ESX 3.5 server to connect via iSCSI.

So here is what I did.

DSS-Lite

Create the iSCSI target

Make sure that your lun is not set to zero. ESX does not like lun0.

You need to initialize the volume. You can not do this with ESX. So I connected a Vista Workstation to the iSCSI target and went to storage manager and initialize the volume.
Do not format the volume.

Now you should be able to connect the ESX server.

If you have any problem please post them.

Thanks