I'm trying to set up an ISCSI box for shared storage to connect to my xenserver environment. I am using Centos 7 as iSCSI storage. I am using targetcli for iSCSI configuration.
I can set up everything just fine, the xenserver machine will connect and format the volume. I can set up VMS on it and all works fine until I reboot.
At this point the xenserver box will no longer connect and mapped LUN is shown as disconnected. Looking at the storage box a little further, I see that the LUN is not there anymore. But when I run "gdisk /dev/sda"; I do see the partition. Its only not visible in targetcli anymore. If I try to re-attach/create the LUN in targetcli then it tells me that the disk is in use.
/backstores/block> create xenhq_vl01 /dev/sda5 Cannot configure StorageObject because device /dev/sda5 is already in use
There is one another LUN mapped to a windows box which is not part of xen and it is working perfectly alright.
Below image is taken right after the LUN got disappeared. I also tried to re-create the same LUN but it gave an error.
After rebooting the Xen box; messages file in Centos reported following:
Jun 27 07:27:44 STGHQ01 target: Could not create StorageObject xenhq_vl01: Cannot configure StorageObject because device /dev/sda5 is already in use, skipped
Jun 27 07:27:44 STGHQ01 target: Could not find matching StorageObject for LUN 0, skipped
Jun 27 07:27:44 STGHQ01 target: Could not find matching TPG LUN 0 for MappedLUN 0, skipped
Any recommendations/suggestions? What am I missing here? Thanks.
