[ILUG] FW: Further SAN issues with RHEL4 & Equalogic SAN

[Conor Wynne]

No worries mate,

I suspected the issue was related to a delay in initialising yer
networking.
I'm happy to help you, and other luggers, with dell kit / iSCSI / FC SANs.

It's Xmas after all!

Brian O'Mahony wrote:
> Actually as a matter of interest, as it was my first time mucking with iSCSI SAN volumes on redhat, I decided to use the LVM gui (something I personally abhor but needed to show someone that the volume was visible etc). That's why I didn't think of changing the FS type.
>
> Thanks again
> B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian O'Mahony 
> Sent: 08 December 2009 13:45
> To: 'Conor Wynne'
> Cc: conor_d_wynne at dell.com; Irish Linux Users Group
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] FW: Further SAN issues with RHEL4 & Equalogic SAN
>
> Conor
>
> It was a stupid error on my part, sorry. I had the mount points set to default, and as such they were loading before the interfaces were fully up.
>
> Once I changed them to _netdev, I started getting login errors, but eventually they logged in as the interface came up. Everything was reosey after that.
>
> Thanks for the offer of opening a case, but I got it sorted now!
>
> :D
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor Wynne [mailto:mariconor at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 08 December 2009 13:17
> To: Brian O'Mahony
> Cc: conor_d_wynne at dell.com; Irish Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] FW: Further SAN issues with RHEL4 & Equalogic SAN
>
> Hiya brian,
>
> I can help you sort this out - send me your service TAG and I'll log a case for you. if you could send me a "sosreport" that would be very useful.
> or keep it on list and I'll help you anyway. Whichever suits. My work address is in CC.
>
> Later
> Conor.
>
> Brian O'Mahony wrote:
>   
>> Im having further issues with the test box I have connected to the SAN.
>>
>> I have assigned 500Gb of space to my PE2850. I have the SAN on a 
>> separate network, and after installing the iSCSI initiator, I can see 
>> the device
>>
>> **********************************************************************
>> ********* SFNet iSCSI Driver Version ...4:0.1.11-6(03-Aug-2007)
>> *******************************************************************************
>> TARGET NAME             : iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-8d303fd04-a63000007cf4b151-dubsangrp01volcc
>> TARGET ALIAS            : DubSanGrp01VolCC
>> HOST ID                 : 7
>> BUS ID                  : 0
>> TARGET ID               : 0
>> TARGET ADDRESS          : 10.10.10.20:3260,1
>> SESSION STATUS          : ESTABLISHED AT Mon Dec  7 14:16:19 GMT 2009
>> SESSION ID              : ISID 00023d000001 TSIH bd
>>
>> I then put a volume group (called SAN) of the full 500Gb on the device, and created a 90Gb logical volume, which I was able to write with an ext3 FS and mounted it.
>>
>> When I rebooted the system hung on boot saying it could not find /dev/SAN/cc_san_lv01, I edited the fstab, and brought the system up. Sure enough /dev/SAN was missing. I created a second volume, cc_san_lv02, and once again on reboot the /dev/SAN is gone.
>>
>> Why is it getting dropped on reboot?
>>
>> B
>>
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