Hi All,
I just upgraded my vCenter 5.5 Windows server to vCenter 6.0. Along with that, I wiped one of my 3 Dell R710s (3 years old) to get a fresh install, since it has been upgraded since ESXi 5.0. I first started with the Dell ESXi 6 disk. Install was smooth. After setting up the host to match the configurations of my other two ESXi 5.5 hosts, I could not get my Equallogic LUNs to be displayed. Other iSCSI LUNs (Drobo for backup, Openfiler for testing) had no issues. Only Equallogic and Nexenta. Both SANs complain about "Access Denied" when the ESXi 6.0 server tries to discover the SANs.
Upon further searching, two things have changed in ESXi 6 at face value: 1., My Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 iSCSi cards are now registered as QLogic. 2. My VMware Software iSCSI Adapter now has a new Initiator name.
My Equallogic SAN is running 7.x firmware. To see if the drivers made any difference, I wiped the ESXi host again and installed VMware's version instead of Dells. My iSCSI Nics are now a bit different....listed as QLogic NetXtreme II. Again, no luck on the SAN and the "access denied/unauthorized access" errors on the SANs persist.
I have made sure I am not using CHAP or and ACLs. While the Static tab for the Nexenta works (meaning it discovers all of the IQNs) the LUNs never show up. With the Equallogic, no IQNs are discovered.
I wanted to post this to see if we can get this figured out and maybe post some good info if we get a resolution. However, I do not have weeks to experiment, as I will need to roll back to vCenter 5.5 and get the ESXi host back. Any help and suggestions would be appreciated!