kb.hurricane-ridge.com » iscsi http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com My personal - but public - knowledge base Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:49:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Setting SCSI Timeout Values for FreeBSD VMs on VMware/NetApp http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/os/freebsd/setting-scsi-timeout-values-for-freebsd-vms-on-vmwarenetapp http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/os/freebsd/setting-scsi-timeout-values-for-freebsd-vms-on-vmwarenetapp#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:07:29 +0000 admin http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/?p=969 NetApp requires setting a timeout value of 190 seconds for all VMware data stores on their filers to handle “long fabric or storage-side I/O interruptions”; this is done as follows on FreeBSD:

# sysctl kern.cam.da.default_timeout=190

This can be set permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf:

kern.cam.da.default_timeout=190

Elsewhere, I have seen a recommendation for FreeBSD on ESX that kern.cam.da.retry_count be set to 120.

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