ESX IS NOT WORKING WITH TS-RIGL/R5 F/W 1.01

[ploppington]

   

I purchased a Buffalo Tech Terastation iscsi 4tb SAN NAS device. This was so i could connect it to a VMWARE ESX Server - Version 3.5

 

Whilst i can connect the iscsi device to windows machines, for some reason it won't even show up. Like the way the buffalo tool finds the device on the network, the vmware esx server fails to find the device in the first place. Looking around the net has yielded this from the logs of the terastation.

 

Jan 14 20:50:13 TS-RIGLDA0 ietd: unable to create server socket (Address family not supported by protocol) 10 1 6!
Jan 14 20:50:13 TS-RIGLDA0 ietd: connection closed
Jan 14 20:50:23 TS-RIGLDA0 last message repeated 2 times
Jan 14 21:02:10 ALPHTSPI02 ietd: connection closed

 

I have searched the net and come up with nothing, all i could find is that there are other people out there who also suffer with this problem. The best thread i have found so far is linked below, however that fails in producing an answer.

 

Since this is a Buffalo problem, please can someone take the step of working on this, to deliver a solution. Surely 

this is high priority  bug fixing.

 

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1145096#1145096">http://communities.vmware.com/message/1145096#1145096

 

Thanks for reading

Message Edited by ploppington on 02-06-2009 06:55 AM

[Hakan35]

   

I have same Issue ...

 

Can't connect my iSCSI Buffalo Storage with ESX 3.5

 

Someone wrote in other Thread he was able to do, but didn't mention how.

 

 

[tagrove]

   I am also having this issue.  Would appreciate it if I could be notified if there is a solution

[ll-cool-joe]

   

had the same problems as described above.

buffalo terastation ii 4tb rackmount iscsi, model TS-RIGL/R5, fw 1.01.

 

using lvm and creating a logical volume not over 2000 GB worked for me!

[Dustrega]

That would be correct ll-cool-joe. When creating a volume to share on the network for Windows XP you would need to create a volume that is 2TB or less. This isn't a problem of course with iSCSI devices that are 2TB or less. For the rest of the users who posted questions previously; Please be sure that when you pose a VMware question to include which host/guest operating environs that you're using. Thank you.

[ll-cool-joe]

   

sorry, you're right!

i used vmware esxi hypervisor 3.5 update 3.

if the logical volume on the terastation was configured with more than 2000 gb, vmware esxi could not find the volume making a rescan with the virtual infrastructure client... altough the terastation announced a connection on the main page.

"...unable to create server socket (Address family not supported by protocol) 10 1 6! " in the iscsi error log...

i created a volume with 2000 gb, made a rescan in the virtual infrastructure client and the target was found and the storage could be added...

[Colin137]

Please see the following thread for possible solutions.

 

http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0101&thread.id=303&view=by_date_ascending&page=1