Problems with QLA2462

[Raudi]

o.k. i wish you and all the others a merry christmas!

Stefan

[Raudi]

Yesterday in activated the previous version and FC in Target mode works. But i can't access te LUN from ESX. I can't create a vmfs or a rdmp...

- When i want to create a VMFS, igot a message that tha partition can't be read.

- When i want to create a RDMP i got this messages in the log:

Task Created : haTask-1344-vim.VirtualMachine.reconfigure-1785
State Transition (VM_STATE_OFF -> VM_STATE_RECONFIGURING)
Could not get canonical path for /vmfs/volumes/.../srv08/srv08.vmdk: No such file or directory
DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmfs/volumes/.../srv08/srv08.vmdk" : creation successful.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/.../srv08/srv08-rdmp.vmdk" : open successful (17) size = 312552194048, hd = 0. Type 10
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/.../srv08/srv08-rdmp.vmdk" : closed.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/.../srv08/srv08-rdmp.vmdk" : failed to open (2490377): AIOMgr_Open failed. Type 10
DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Failed to open extents for descriptor file in normal mode
DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmfs/volumes/.../srv08/srv08.vmdk" : failed to open (Function not implemented).
DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/.../srv08/srv08.vmdk" : failed to open (Function not implemented).
DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/...0/srv08/srv08.vmdk' with flags 0 (Function not implemented).
Foundry operation failed with system error: Function not implemented (38), translated to 1
Failed to get result state: CreateBacking: Error: Internal error
Event 39 : Failed to create virtual disk /vmfs/volumes/.../srv08/srv08.vmdk Reconfigure failed

And when i try to low level format the disk from the hosts QLogic BIOS i got an error too. But verify works.

Best regards
Stefan

[stgepopp]

Hi Stefan,

i have a similar configuration:

DSS on a box with some TBs and QLA234X Dualport in Targetmode

are you able to rescan the vmhba?
how much capacity?
-> /proc/vmware/scsi/vmhba#/T:L
-> VI-Client -> Configuration -> Storage Adapters -> T:L
-> VI-Client -> Configuration -> Storage -> Add Storage

4 days ago i had an issue reporting the lun capacity as none instead of for instance 500GB. My problem was a bad GBIC on host side in my fc switch. After replacing all was fine. I saw some errors on switch level and /var/log/vmkernel

I could also try to use the fdisk command for creating partitions and formating with vmfs3.

- esxcfg-vmhbadevs -> which /dev/sd# for a given vmhbaC:T:L
- fdisk /dev/sd#
n
p
1
ENTER
ENTER
t
fb
x
b
1
128
w
- vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -S DS-Name vmhbaC:T:L:1

come back with any questions regarding ESX3 and DSS on that place

Erich Popp

[Raudi]

Hi Erich,

i just wrote my current problems with ESX here:

http://forum.open-e.com/showthread.php?p=2156#post2156

The problem is had before, i created the LUN's with a blocksize of 4096 bytes. It seems that ESX can only handle 512 bytes blocksize...

Regards
Stefan

[stgepopp]

Hi Stefan,

i can confirm that fc connect with my equipment isn't working with 4k blocks. After creating with 512B blocks fc worked for me.

regards Erich