Login to iSCSI volumes fails during boot

[Molin Olof]

Hi

 

I have a problem to boot my servers after adding more volumes to my storage group.

Today we have 30 volumes in total in the group. First 15 is used for a Oracle RAC cluster and the other for a second Oracle RAC cluster. Servers in first cluster can't access volumes in second cluster. Restricted by IP access rules.

 

During boot ot the server, most times only a subset of the volumes are connected.before the boot hangs and I have to reboot the server.

Sometimes the boot is successful.

 

Any suggestion how to solve this?

 

/Olof

[Mike Christie]

Are you doing iscsi root boot or just using iscsi for some date
partition/disk and that is not getting logged into? For the latter what
version of the open-iscsi tools are you using? In iscsid.conf do you see a

node.session.initial_login_retry_max

setting and a

node.conn[0].timeo.login_timeout

?

What are the values?

If the timeout is around 15-30 seconds try increasing
initial_login_retry_max.