RHEL 6.5 HIT kit install

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I''m attempting to do an install of the Linux HIT kit (1.2.0) on a fully updated RHEL6 server (6.5 patch level). While the HIT kit installs, I''m having issues with the ehcmd daemon crashing on startup, due to an unsupported 'iscsiadm --version' revision. The following lines from /var/log/equallogic/ehcmd.log show the error: ------- 03-Dec-13 10:44:40|EHCMD|13484|13484||INFO|Iscsiadm|307|Parsing vesion string ''6.2.0-873.10.el6'' 03-Dec-13 10:44:40|EHCMD|13484|13484||ERROR|run|703|***** UNHANDLED EXCEPTION ***** 03-Dec-13 10:44:40|EHCMD|13484|13484||INFO|Iscsiadm|336|*** EXCEPTION: iscsiadm version output not recognized (not 2.0): No such file or directory --------- The version of iscsiadm installed is 6.2.0.873.10.el6, from the iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.873-10.el6.x86_64 RHEL6 RPM package. Running 'iscsiadm --version' returns 'iscsiadm version 6.2.0-873.10.el6'. Reverting the iscsi-initiator-utils RPM package to iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-16.el6.x86_64 seems to 'fix' the issue, and an 'iscsiadm --version' returns 'iscsiadm version 2.0-872.41.el6', and ehcmd starts as expected. So, I''m a little worried here that the HIT kit does not support the latest fully patched version of RHEL6 (RHEL 6.5). correct?

alwayshope · Answer

Thanks for the fast respond. any estimate when v1.3.0 will be released ?

bealdrid · Answer

I don't condone doing it in a critical production environment, and I understand it's not officially supported, but I have had guest iscsi working well with the hit-kit in RHEL 6.5 and 6.4 for quite some time now by forcing the version of iscsi-initiator-utils to be iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-41.

yum install iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-41.el6

and add iscsi-initiator-utils to your exclude list in yum (or use the yum version lock plugin).

If you already have the newer version installed, remove it first, then install the version above.

Edit.. didnt read the original post enough, I see you already did what I had mentioned.

bobst_its · Answer

Hi Don,

If I'm reading the documentation correctly, it appears that HIT/LE 1.3.0 EPA only supports RHEL 6.4 and 6.5 and not 6.0 - 6.5 as you indicated. Can you clarify?

We've standardized on RHEL 6.3 and we're using HIT/LE 1.2 which does support 6.3. We are looking to upgrade to HIT/LE 1.3 soon in order to gain support for the 7.x series firmware which we need to upgrade to in the coming months. But, if support for 6.3 is dropped in this latest HIT, this will be a problem.

Seems like the requirements for the HIT 1.3.0 and firmware 7.x have us caught in the middle. Any suggestions on this?

Thanks,

Ryan

EqualLogic

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