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December 11th, 2009 03:00

Configuring iscsi hba with PS5000, Dell 610r and Centos/RHEL 5.4, Broadcomm 5709 ISCSI offload

I can make iscsi connection trough real ethernet interfaces, but not trough ifaces. I would like to use offload properties of nic. I have not used hba before, but have used lot of time trying to figure this out. If anyone can help, I will be very happy. I am using Xen virtualization that comes with Centos 5.4 (3.0.3).

Thank you for any information,

Arto

I have following setup:

eth5      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:18:5B:EB:9E, inet addr:10.10.13.6  Bcast:10.10.13.255  Mask:255.255.255.0, TCP-offload off

eth4      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:18:5B:EB:9C, inet addr:10.10.13.5  Bcast:10.10.13.255  Mask:255.255.255.0, TCP-offload off

# sudo /sbin/iscsiadm -m ifacedefault tcp, , , ,
iser iser, , , ,
bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f bnx2i,00:10:18:5b:eb:9f,10.10.13.8, ,
bnx2i.00:00:00:00:00:00 bnx2i,00:00:00:00:00:00, , ,
bnx2i.00:22:19:65:77:8d bnx2i,00:22:19:65:77:8d, , ,
bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d bnx2i,00:10:18:5b:eb:9d,10.10.13.7, ,
#sudo /sbin/iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 10.10.13.251:3260 -I bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d -I bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f -P 1 -o update
Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0474f2c03-25b000034be4b199-rhostos
Portal: 10.10.13.251:3260,1
Iface Name: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f
Iface Name: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d
Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0744f2c03-345000034c14b199-rhostdb
Portal: 10.10.13.251:3260,1
Iface Name: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f
Iface Name: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d
Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:6-8a0900-92e4f2c03-39f000021f749d0a-vss-control
Portal: 10.10.13.251:3260,1
Iface Name: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f
Iface Name: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d
sudo /sbin/iscsiadm -m node -lLogging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0474f2c03-25b000034be4b199-rhostos, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]
Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0474f2c03-25b000034be4b199-rhostos, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]
Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0744f2c03-345000034c14b199-rhostdb, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]
Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0744f2c03-345000034c14b199-rhostdb, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]
Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:6-8a0900-92e4f2c03-39f000021f749d0a-vss-control, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]
Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:6-8a0900-92e4f2c03-39f000021f749d0a-vss-control, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]
iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0474f2c03-25b000034be4b199-rhostos, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]: 
iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure)
iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0474f2c03-25b000034be4b199-rhostos, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]: 
iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure)
iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0744f2c03-345000034c14b199-rhostdb, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]: 
iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure)
iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-0744f2c03-345000034c14b199-rhostdb, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]: 
iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure)
iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9f, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:6-8a0900-92e4f2c03-39f000021f749d0a-vss-control, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]: 
iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure)
iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:5b:eb:9d, target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:6-8a0900-92e4f2c03-39f000021f749d0a-vss-control, portal: 10.10.13.251,3260]: 
iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure)

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December 11th, 2009 06:00

You may want to post in the Equallogic section for more visibility (as you have an Dell|Equallogic SAN and not a Dell|EMC SAN, however, last I remember seeing, Dell didn't support iSCSI offload on linux on those NICs. I thought it was limited to Windows only.

 

There was a thread of trying to get this to work, as HP uses the exact same models NICs, and they do offer iSCSI offload under linux. I don't remember the outcome of that thread.

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