HP 460c Gen9 + Ubuntu 14.04 + iSCSI HBA

ubern00b · 2 Mar 2018 at 16:39

Hi all

I am currently setting up the above mentioned for use with MySQL (Percona). I have configured 2 paths/NICs within the Virtual Connect for the iSCSI HBA and I assumed I would see these two NICs within the OS but all I am seeing is the 2 "PROD/Management" NICs I configured.

We are a Microsoft house so my Linux knowledge is sketchy at best but since I essentially have 4 NICs in the systems, 2 for PROD/Management and 2 for iSCSI I expect to see the 4 NICs of which I bond the 2 PROD/Management and assign IPs to the other 2 for the Storage network and install iSCSI initiator give it a discovery IP and off I go.

No? Am I missing anything that you can think of?

ubern00b · 5 Mar 2018 at 10:22

Good shout. I will give that a look at this morning. Thanks!

ubern00b · 5 Mar 2018 at 15:14

So you were quite right, there are a bunch of configuration options at the BIOS level. I have assigned IP's on the storage network and entered the discovery IP and found all paths etc, great. Boot into Ubuntu and I was expecting/hoping to just see the disk available to me to use. Not so

Any other ideas from anyone? Thing is, I could just assign another 2 NICs (not the iSCSI HBA NICs in VC) to the blade and put them on the storage network, bond them and then use iscsiadm to configure it all. I just thought that this method I am trying now would be the "right" way of doing it, being an HBA and all.

ubern00b · 5 Mar 2018 at 15:59

The only reason I don't think it is driver related is because the iSCSI NICs are actually the same as the rest of the NICs:

And they work just fine. During the boot phase you can also see it detect the iSCSI hardware, it detects "scsi host1" and then the same for "scsi host2" I just wasn't quick enough to screenshot it.

So anyway if I don't get it working by the end of the day then I will just do it the way I know how to. I just want to make it work now though to satisfy my need to not have it win!

ubern00b · 5 Mar 2018 at 16:16

Bloody marvellous! Thank you for that. I have been looking for some point of reference most of the day. My Google fu is clearly weak. That's a lot of documentation to read now but it's something. Thanks again!

Edit: 100% using "Accelerated iSCSI".