Cant see volumes

soscvio · Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:25 pm

Hello,

we configured a Windows Server 2008 R2 as iSCSI Target via StarWind.

The iscsi targets are visible via the iSCSI initator of the Windows 2008 R2 client, but we dont see any volumes. Regardless of the volume type (RAM, image or physical disks).

Any advice,
Thanks,
Thomas

Constantin (staff) · Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:15 pm

Have you initialized targets in disk management console?

soscvio · Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:19 am

On the client, the disks are not visible - also if i rescan the hard disks.

Constantin (staff) · Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:35 am

Is port 3260 open on your target server?

soscvio · Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:55 am

Firewall is fully disabled.

The client can establish the connection to the iscsi target server, that works fine. Only the volume is not found for "autoconfigure devices" in die iSCSI initator setup.

Constantin (staff) · Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:13 am

autoconfigure devices? Could you please attach screenshot?

soscvio · Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:48 am

Aitor_Ibarra · Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:04 pm

soscvio,

I don't get that problem (although I never tried to use the feature until just now). The stuff you want to autoconfigure - is it already listed on the Favourite Targets tab? That's all you need if you want to automatically connect to a target after a reboot. This autoconfigure stuff is presumably to help you if you have system/application dependencies that need the targets to be present earlier than normal (I guess it starts the iscsi client service earlier or something).

cheers,

Aitor

soscvio · Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:13 pm

That was only an example, the disk is not seen by the client, I did a few screenshots:

soscvio · Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:14 pm

The disk managment screenshot:

Aitor_Ibarra · Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:10 pm

OK, that's weird... and I haven't seen it before...

I think the problem is likely to be with windows disk management - as clearly the iSCSI initiator is connected to Starwind. The fact that the volume is not showing up is probably also the reason why you have nothing in "Volumes and Devices" even though you clearly have on "Favourite Targets". Have you tried listing volumes with diskpart?

I would try restarting the Virtual Disk service on the initiator machine. If that doesn't work try a reboot (although I guess you've already tried that). Failing that, see if you can connect from another machine to starwind. If you don't have anything else, you can try the MS initiator on the same server as Starwind...

soscvio · Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:49 pm

Hi,

we tested it from the second cluster node - and it works fine (same Hardware, same OS version).
Only from the first node, we dont see the volumes - same problem with diskpart.

We did already a reboot of the server, no change.

What could we try else?

Thanks,
Thomas

Constantin (staff) · Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:54 pm

Please, send us logs from this machine at support at starwindsoftware dot com with link to this topic in body or subject

Constantin (staff) · Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:45 pm

I received Windows logs, thank you, but could you please also send logs of StarWind? You can find it in %Program Files%\StarWind Software\StarWind\logs. You send us it once, but they do not contain any error message, so plz zip all your logs and send to us.

soscvio · Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:47 pm

Sure, already on its way.