Napp-IT/OmniOS iSER Target

[markpower28]

Is there possible to enable iSER on OmniOS? I was able to get standard iSCSI working with ESXi, but no luck with iSER. What's the best way to create an iSER target? (if needed)

OmniOS Build - omniosce-r151034
NIC: Mellanox ConnectX-4
Napp-IT: 19.12

Client
ESXi 7.0
NIC: Mellanox Connect 3 with iSER enabled

Thank you!

 

[StevenDTX]

How did you get the connectx-4 to work in OmniOS? Mine won’t transmit data and I get a weird error in the console.

 

[markpower28]

omniosce-r151034 support Mellanox ConnectX-4/5/6 out of the box

 

[gea]

There is a newly found bug in the Connectx4 driver. There is a fix available but as far as I know it does not fix the problem for all. If this happens, use the X4 in ESXi in the meantime

see https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/mlxcx-isnt-armed.29221/

about iser/IB, have you read for example

How to Configure an IB HCA for iSER - Managing Devices in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

An InfiniBand (IB) Host Channel Adapter (HCA) is required to take full advantage of the iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) capabilities. To use iSER, you must configure...

docs.oracle.com

Overview of InfiniBand Devices - Oracle Solaris Administration: Devices and File Systems

This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Oracle Solaris 11 release. The book covers a range of Oracle Solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file systems.Topics are described for both SPARC...

docs.oracle.com

 

[markpower28]

Thank you @gea ! I am running bare-metal for OmniOS and I do not have @StevenDTX 's issue. I am familiar with Solaris' RDMA requirement for IB which is why I moved away from Solaris based ZFS to Linux based ZFS (not as good) in the past two years due to lack of support for Ethernet support (Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN for example).

I am very excited for OmniOS support Mellanox ConnectX-4/5/6 and decided to give it another try. Standard iSCSI works without issues, but iSER seem a challenge. With IB has a faded protocol should we ditch the aging Solaris platform?