Originally posted by: Holger_Scherer
Friends,
a lot of documents on the net describe, how easy you can connect from AIX to a Linux which provides some storage via iSCSI.
I tried for hours - and do not succeed...
Environment: Power6 M525 with AIX 6.1 (Initiator), VM with Debian 6 and 1TB Disk which plays the target (using IET iscsitarget).
Setup AIX iSCSI using SMIT, edited /etc/iscsi/targets and verified parameters million times.
whenever i run
# cfgmgr -i iscsi0
this runs for some seconds, then
# lsdev -Cc disk
shows only my 2 SAS disks.
On the Linux side, netstat -a does show port 3260 is waiting for connection, but no connect from AIX box.
Yes - i checked:
- PING works both directions
- configuration in general - as million google results suggest
My assumption is, the iSCSI software driver on AIX does not start a connection.
/usr/local/bin/devscan shows:
Processing iSCSI device:
Protocol driver: iscsi0
LUN ID IP Address
---------------------------
0000000000000000 192.168.250.58
iqn.2009-02.de.rzkh:server.00000000
START failed with errno EIO
1 targets found, reporting 0 LUNs,
0 of which responded to SCIOLSTART.
Elapsed time this adapter: 00.051834 seconds
2 device(s) on the SAN were not found in the ODM.
Generally, this means these devices were made available on the SAN
after the last time cfgmgr was run on this host, or that these
devices were deleted out of the ODM.
Cleaning up...
Total elapsed time: 00.207185 seconds
Completed with error(s)
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Please help how to find out *WHAT* is the problem... I am an IBM i expert but not AIX, and my personal opinion is: AIX does not make life easy. How to find out the real problem?
​Thank
Holgers