Boot iSCSI within ESX 5.1 VM

jeffpi · Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:05 pm

Has anyone ever tried using iPXE to network boot iSCSI from within an ESX VM? Specifically I am trying to install Win7x64 from an ISO to a StarWind iSCSI target. 75% of the time the first reboot fails with Boot Manager reporting an 0xc00000e9 exception in various drivers. The remaining 25% of the time the VM just hangs after reboot. If I perform the exact same thing but using a Microsoft iSCSI target (2012r2) , the installation completes without issue.

The 0xc00000e9 error appears to be STATUS_UNEXPECTED_IO_ERROR.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Jeff

Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:36 am

Is there any chance to see a StarWind logs from a failed attempt? It would help a lot. Your feedback is appreciated!

jeffpi · Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:21 pm

Log file and screen shot of boot failure are attached.

Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:33 am

Hi! I just want to let you know that our R&D currently investigating your issue. We`ll give you the heads up as soon as we will get anything.

Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:17 pm

OK, it looks like the problem was caused by the disabled Clustering (allow multiple concurrent iSCSI connections) on the target. Could you please double check this setting?