<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><p>Hello List,</p>
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<p>i have trouble connecting an INFORTREND iSCSI array as external iSCSI backend to Cinder in OpenStack Victoria, deployed via Kolla-Ansible (All in One, it's still PoC).</p>
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<p>I use a volume driver provided by the manufacturer, which is listed as "completely" supported by OpenStack.</p>
<p>And i can use it to log in to the array using the client.</p>
<p>iSCSI session is established.</p>
<p>Firewall etc off, as recommended.</p>
<p>I can even start cinder-volume and as long as this service stays up, i can create volumes and remove them, but always they are reported in "Error" state.</p>
<p>Soon after having started the service cinder-volume, the service shuts down.</p>
<p>When reading the logfiles, it looks like the following error is the first one to show up, when starting the cinder-volume:</p>
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<p>cinder-volume.log:</p>
<p>WARNING cinder.volume.manager [req-1290dad2-d09e-40f1-9b38-2f4b5e7accb8 - - - - -] Update driver status failed: (config name IFT-ISCSI) is uninitialized.</p>
<p>ERROR cinder.service [-] Manager for service cinder-volume host@IFT-ISCSI is reporting problems, not sending heartbeat. Service will appear "down".</p>
<p>DEBUG oslo_concurrency.lockutils [-] Acquired lock "singleton_lock" lock /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/oslo_concurrency/lockutils.py:266</p>
<p>DEBUG oslo_concurrency.lockutils [-] Releasing lock "singleton_lock" lock /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/oslo_concurrency/lockutils.py:282</p>
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<p>cinder.conf is setup according to documentation by the manufacturer, and matches what i found similar from DELL and HITACHI.</p>
<p>Googling for this error unveils that this is a very frequent error, but non of the proposed solutions works for me.</p>
<p>Does any body have a clue where to look?</p>
<p>I am running out of ideas, unfortunately</p>
<p>Best</p>
<p>SK</p></div></body></html>