iSCSI troubles

Matthew Crocker mcrocker at crocker.com
Fri Jan 11 19:27:46 CST 2008


Hello,

  I have a PE1955 running RHEL v5.1 connected to a MD3000i iSCSI  
SAN.   I can't get things started so I can mount the virtual disks.

I have the 4 IP address of the MD3000i controllers in /etc/ 
iscsi.conf.  I have installed the MDSM software and followed the  
install directions

The docs mention 'iscsi -ls' to view the available LUNs but I don't  
have 'iscsi'  application.  I have iscsiadm

  iscsiadm -m node
192.168.130.101:3260,1 iqn.1984-05.com.dell:powervault. 
6001c23000d621530000000047824388
192.168.131.102:3260,2 iqn.1984-05.com.dell:powervault. 
6001c23000d621530000000047824388
192.168.131.101:3260,1 iqn.1984-05.com.dell:powervault. 
6001c23000d621530000000047824388
192.168.130.102:3260,2 iqn.1984-05.com.dell:powervault. 
6001c23000d621530000000047824388

  SMdevices
PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager Devices, Version 09.17.A6.01
Built Tue Mar 20 15:31:11 CST 2007
Copyright 2005-2006 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.  Use is subject to  
license terms

PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager Devices found no devices -  
terminating.


  SMagent start

SMagent started.
[root at c1b1 ~]# PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager Agent, Version  
09.17.A6.05
Built Tue Oct 09 11:43:08 CDT 2007
Copyright 2005-2006 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.  Use is subject to  
license terms
Checking device <n/a> (/dev/sg0) : Skipping
Checking device <n/a> (/dev/sg1) : Skipping
Checking device /dev/sda (/dev/sg2) : Skipping
Checking device <n/a> (/dev/sg3) : Skipping

The SMagent service attempted to start but terminated. Possible causes  
include:  [1] The access virtual disk is disabled in NVSRAM. [2] No  
RAID controller modules with compatible firmware were found. [3] The  
default logical unit number (LUN) assigned to the access virtual disk  
(typically 7 or 31) is not in the range supported by the host or is  
already in use by the host for another device. See your storage  
management documentation for more details.


The Host Context Agent did NOT start because 0 RAID controller modules  
were found.



What am I missing?



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