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Cannot connect ESXi 3.5 to MD3000i

Asked by cabmup in Storage Technology, Hypervisor

Tags: ESXi MD3000i

I've spent about 6 hours on the phone with Dell to no avail. We cannot get my Dell R710 ESXi 3.5 184236 to connect to a new MD3000i. The R710 has the onboard Broadcom's connected to the general network, and then 2 Intel GB NIC's connected to the iSCSI network (10.0.2.xx and 10.0.3.xx). The MD3000i has dual controllers connected to 2 switches. 2 Windows 2003 servers are successfully connected to the MD3000i. Here's a rundown of what we have done:

1. Tried connecting by having only one of the network iSCSI connections enabled.
2. Associated the virtual disks to both the ESX group and the ESXi_1 server.
3. Shortened the iSCSI host name of the ESXi server.
4. Configured a VM to be on the iSCSI network subnet, ensuring the VM could ping the MD3000i host.
5. Rebooted the ESXi_1 server multiple times.

I am able to ping the ESXi server from a Windows machine on the same iSCSI network. I have worked with both the Enterprise Server and the MD3000i support groups. The next solution is to have a person in my remote office access the ESXi server, go to the unsupported mode, and trying pinging port 3260 on the ESXi. I am hesitant to do this though in case anything goes awry.

Are there any ideas on what might be going wrong?

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Cannot connect ESXi 3.5 to MD3000i

Asked by cabmup in Storage Technology, Hypervisor

Tags: ESXi MD3000i

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