Help with md3000i

[Robin Kearney]

On 26 Jul 2008, at 08:33, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote:

> I just unpacked a new 2950 III and MD3000i.   I also obtained a couple
> Intel Gigabit cards for iSCSI redundancy.   As soon as the hardware  
> was
> out of the box, I powered on the 3000i, used a crossover cable  
> between the
> 2950 and 3000i, and installed CentOS 5.0, then the 3000i software  
> from the
> included CD.
>
> No matter what I've tried, from the included poster-size  
> instructions, I
> cannot get the 2950 to see the 3000.  There are references to the  
> target
> being 192.168.13x,y, and I tried configuring my Intel cards with the  
> same
> subnets, with different hosts, but nothing.  I haven't tried a ping,  
> test,
> though.   I also haven't tried a hub, but the crossover cable should
> negate the need for a hub.   The shortcut on the desktop from the  
> included
> software cannot find the 3000i.
>
> chkconfig confirms the iscsi service is running.
>
> I'm brand new to the iscsi arena.    What else should I be looking  
> for?
> What else am I missing?  I've spent a decent part of a couple of days
> between experimentation, looking at the limited documenation, and
> searching the web.   Dell has some online help that doesn't seem  
> like it
> came with what I received.

Have you followed the steps in the users guide to setup out of band  
management of the storage array? You'll need to follow these steps  
before the storage administrator software will be able to find the  
array and let you configure the target ip addresses. Which are the ip  
addresses the 2950III nics will talk iscis to.

Once you've configured the target addresses you can configure the  
addresses on your dedicated iscsi nics on the 2950III then things  
should proceed nicely!

I'd print the PDF of the user guide and have a good read. It explains  
all the options and how to setup everything from linux.

All the MD3000i documentation is here: http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/md3000i/en/index.htm

The section you need to read regarding setting up out of band  
management is here:

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/md3000i/en/UG/HTML/config.htm#wp1001521

r.