On 0621T0835, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:> Hi.
>
> Guys, does someone have experience with multiple LUNs on a target in
> ctld ? Recently I was installing ESX on a bunch of diskless hosts,
> connected to FreeBSD ctld. I was organizing them inside one target,
> multiple LUNs. As soon as the _count_ of LUNS went over 9, the whole
> thing went crazy - ESX were unable to install, showing multiple errors
> and not showing more than 10 LUNs from FreeBSD (and they were 11), and
> even the last one created was unsuitable for installation. As soon as I
> placed these "extra" LUNs inside the separate targets and LUN 0,
> everything went back to normal. I understand completely this sounds like
> a bad dream. I checked the VMWare limitations
>
(https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf)
> - seems like it's supporting 256 LUNs per server. I've also
checked
> their "iSCSI Best Practices Guide" and nowhere is says "use
one LUN from
> a target". It's not fair to suspect FreeBSD from the start, but
this ML
> is a much more frendlier place (at least I feel it to be so) - so, does
> anyone have experience providing more than 9 LUNs from a target ?
> Because I don't - prior to this I was providing one LUN from each
> target, and it seems that I will continue to do so.
Do you see anything in the system logs, on either the ESX or FreeBSD side?