iSCSI Volume no longer assessible

[dchaney]

We have a TS-R14-OTGL-R5 that we are using for iSCSI storage. We had a problem with our main SAN and I connected to the Buffalo and added an iSCSI drive to a server to off load some files and free up space. This worked fine for some months until we moved our producyion systems to a Data center and in the transfer of the Virtual server that this was connected to we lost the iSCSI connection to the volume.

I can get it to  connect ot a server but I cannot get it to give me access to the files. When it connects the server just hangs up and won't reboot or anything. I need these files back does anyone have an idea that can get me access to the files. We are using VMWare 5.1  and Windows 2003 and 2008 virtual servers.

[Eastmarch]

I think you may have typed in your model number incorrectly.

Here's my first thought, though. Remove VMWare from the equation, just try to connect to the iSCSI drive using something simple like Windows 7 and see if you cant recover that data that way. Depending on the model, they may or may not play all that nicely in a virtualized environment. Some of our devices have been certified with VMWare, and others will probably work without certification, but I'm not sure what device you have.

[dchaney]

Thank You I will try that. FYI I can acces the other two volumes on that device with no problems on the same server.

[Eastmarch]

iSCSI or Samba?