I know there are a million of these threads but I can’t find anything that is helping me out. I added 2 new ESXi 5.5 hosts to our environment but they can’t see any LUNs\datastores. Right now I’m using a single 1G connection for testing while I wait for the right 10G card to show up.
I don’t have any port binding in use either since its just one connection.
I made a vmk port on a new vSwitch and gave it a static IP (10.1.45.250) on the storage network. I then connected a cable from the NIC to a switch port that was used for a 1G storage connection on another host before switching it over to 10G so I know the port config is correct.
I have the iSCSI software initiator enabled and entered the storage IPs in the dynamic discovery section. Nothing shows up under static discovery after a rescan.
On the storage (HP Lefthand) I added the hosts to the ACL and allowed visibility to all the volumes.
I can ping (10.1.45.250) from the iSCSI switch and from the host itself but not from my computer or other hosts. I can’t ping other vmk ports that are working either and remember reading that in 5.5 they changed it where you can’t do that for some reason.
I have rebooted the hosts as well.
*Tested and added after I wrote all the above
Finally for fun I added another vmk port with static IP so I could try port binding and then the datastores showed up. Do you have to use port binding with iSCSI?