Monthly Archives: April 2017

ESXi 6.5 Host Initiator Unable to Connect to OpenMediaVault 2.x Guest iSCSI Target

I ran into a problem when trying to have an OpenMediaVault 2.x Guest machine act as an iSCSI target for an ESXi 6.5 Host iSCSI initiator. The goal was to have OMV share a datastore for the ESXi host using … Continue reading

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How to Utilize iSCSI fileio with OpenMediaVault 2.x

OMV (version 2.x) has an iscsitarget plugin available (openmediavault-iscsitarget), however the web interface only supports BlockIO type of targets and I was looking to implement FileIO. After installing the plugin, it is possible to manually configure the OMV plugin for … Continue reading

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Bind iSCSI to a Single Network Card on OpenMediaVault

If you have multiple network cards for OMV (such as using one for a dedicated storage network), you may be looking to force OMV to assign all iSCSI traffic to one network card. A word of caution – if you … Continue reading

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Unable to Remove USB Controller from ESXi 6.5 Virtual Machine

Ran into a situation where an “x” was not available for removing a USB Controller from a Guest. To resolve, first shut down the guest (if running) and temporarily Unregister it from the host. Then from the datastore, download the … Continue reading

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Unable to Connect to a MySQL Server Running on Debian Linux

If you have a fresh install of a mysql server running on Debian (e.g., after running apt-get install mysql-server) you may find that any mysql client connections from other computers to your Debian server fail (one popular example is Kodi … Continue reading

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