we are running
- QNAP NAS
- Debian 10
- Host VMware 6.7U3 Hypervisor
a) Exporting an iSCSI-LUN-target with the QNAP, what ist using LIO therfor, and accessing it from VMware (read/write) works fine.
b) Exporting an iSCSI-LUN-target with a fresh Debian 10 using LIO and accessing it with a Windows 7 iSCSI initiator (read/write) works fine.
Using the target b) (Debian 10 / LIO) and the initiator a) (VMware v6.7) works as far as
- VMware sees the target host
- VMware can login and sees the target
- VMware can READ the data on the LUN (sees partition table, size of it, partition types, etc)
As soon as we try to write anything VMware reports
2020-12-28T14:36:00.775Z info hostd[2098690] [Originator@6876 sub=Partitionsvc opID=esxui-2f96-fbd9 user=root] Status : 255 Output: gpt 0 0 0 0
Error : Error: Read-only file system during write on /dev/disks/naa.60014054b666e78a1c443ee941c60e3e SetPtableGpt: Unable to commit to disk
and the Debian 10 box reports:
kernel: [ 80.210044] TARGET_CORE[iSCSI]: Detected WRITE_PROTECTED LUN Access for 0x00000000
I don't recognize why VMware mounts the iSCSI LUN read-only but Windows 7 mounts it read-write and VMware mount the QNAP-iSCSI-LUN also read-write.
I appreciate any hint - thank you therfor in advance.
PS: maybe someone can create the tag "linuxio" and assign it to this question.