Hi Folks:
I decided to take the plunge and upgrade one of our ESX 3.0.2 servers to ESX 3.5 with a freshly burnt CD. Now I have the following symptom which I need help fixing:
- the IP address seems to have disappeared for the "VMKernel iSCSI" virtual machine port group, i.e. it does not show up in the VI Client (yes, I installed the latest client after the upgrade). Also, I was not able to see the iSCSI volume/lun that the ESX server was seeing before the upgrade. Until that is, I did the following:
- At the service console command line, run esxcfg-swiscsi -e
- At the service console command line, run esxcfg-swiscsi -d
- At the service console command line, run esxcfg-swiscsi -e
- At the service console command line, run esxcfg-swiscsi -s
After this, I could see the volume/lun and was able to browse it and then re-register the VM that I wanted to bring up.
- when doing a "esxcfg-vmknic -l" at the SSH command prompt I do see the following:
Interface Port Group IP Address Netmask Broadcast MAC Address MTU TSO MSS Enabled
VMkernel iSCSI yyy.yyy.yyy.178 255.255.255.192 yyy.yyy.yyy.191 00:50:..... 0 disabled false
vmk0 VMotion yyy.yyy.yyy.177 255.255.255.192 yyy.yyy.yyy.191 00:50:..... 1500 disabled true
- however, the problem now is that there is no way to power up the VM that I re-registered. Everything is greyed out so cannot even select the option to start up the VM. Also, the fact that I cannot see the IP address for the "VMKernel iSCSI" virtual machine port group in the VI Client worries me. I even tried to remove the "VMKernel iSCSI" virtual machine port group but without success - got an error saying it was being used.
Help! Any suggestions welcome.