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Recently a friend and I were trying to get XenServer 5 to use our Solaris 10 server as it’s backing store. We specifically wanted to use an iSCSI volume exported to the Xen server, as the performance is promised to be considerably better than NFS.

However, try as we might, the XenServer wouldn’t make use of the iSCSI LUN as exported – it could see it, but wouldn’t make use of it. Then we discovered this bug… (continue reading…)

This example is using snv66 for the target, and Solaris 10u3 for the initiator, as iSCSI target isn’t in Solaris 10u3 (11/06), but is in from u4 (08/07). This should work fine on Solaris 10 u4 and beyond. (continue reading…)