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  1. XenServer Org
  2. XSO-856

After rebooting a pool member host, only one iscsi session is active (it should be two)

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    • Resolution: Won't Do
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    • 7.3
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    • NOTE: vesrion is 7.1 LTSR CU1

       

      We have a four host xenserver pool connected to two equallogic SAN, each one with two configured iscsi management interfaces.

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      NOTE: vesrion is 7.1 LTSR CU1

      We have a four host xenserver pool connected to two equallogic SAN, each one with two configured iscsi management interfaces. We follow set up procedure as described in https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX138429; we set up two iface tied to each iscsi management iscsi interface, and we get two connections for each host with each SAN as expected. But, after rebooting a host, iscid seems not to use new defined ifaces and only use default one; as a result, there is only one session for SAN.

      The procedure works fine in a standalone CentOS 7 server, but for some reason, with Xenservers 7.1 CU hosts don't, because after rebooting such hosts, iscsid seems not to use the two iface created. It uses only the default iface. This behavior is shown with these commands:

      1 -Just after reboot:

      iscsiadm -m iface -P 1
      Iface: default
          Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2
              Portal: 10.0.1.7:3260,1
          Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1
              Portal: 10.0.1.7:3260,1
          Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1
              Portal: 10.0.1.6:3260,1
      Iface: iser
      Iface: bnx2i.b0:83:fe:dd:8e:8c
      Iface: iface1
      Iface: bnx2i.b0:83:fe:dd:8e:8a
      Iface: iface0

      1. iscsiadm -m node
        10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2
        10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1
        10.0.1.6:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1
      1. iscsiadm -m session
        tcp: [1] 10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1 (non-flash)
        tcp: [2] 10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2 (non-flash)
        tcp: [3] 10.0.1.6:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1 (non-flash)

      2- Then I do iscsiadm changes and these are things before reboot:

      1. iscsiadm -m iface -P 1
        Iface: default
        Iface: iser
        Iface: bnx2i.b0:83:fe:dd:8e:8c
        Iface: iface1
            Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2
                Portal: 10.0.1.7:3260,1
            Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1
                Portal: 10.0.1.7:3260,1
            Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1
                Portal: 10.0.1.6:3260,1
        Iface: bnx2i.b0:83:fe:dd:8e:8a
        Iface: iface0
            Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2
                Portal: 10.0.1.7:3260,1
            Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1
                Portal: 10.0.1.7:3260,1
            Target: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1
                Portal: 10.0.1.6:3260,1
      1. iscsiadm -m node
        10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2
        10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2
        10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1
        10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1
        10.0.1.6:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1
        10.0.1.6:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1
      1. iscsiadm -m session
        tcp: [4] 10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2 (non-flash)
        tcp: [5] 10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-33dc04227-90e30fba9cb5a79c-agorav3equa10g2 (non-flash)
        tcp: [6] 10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1 (non-flash)
        tcp: [7] 10.0.1.7:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-6694d6-460c04227-bf230fba9485a579-agorav3equa10g1 (non-flash)
        tcp: [8] 10.0.1.6:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1 (non-flash)
        tcp: [9] 10.0.1.6:3260,1 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-1cb196-0f00ca21f-c147cf79d9b54fdd-illustrator1 (non-flash)

      3 - Rebooting the server, and we are again in point 1

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            chandrikas Chandrika Srinivasan
            fbassas Francesc Bassas
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