Cannot mount vmfs version 5 on linux-Collection of common programming errors

11 years ago

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I know I can mount a vmfs version 3 on linux using vmfs-tools.

First I get the iscsi connection using open-iscsi

I then check in my partition tool to which virtual drive the iscsi connection has been mapped.

  Expert Partitioner                                                       

   ?System View?????????????????????????Available Storage on serviceseta
   ????serviceseta                     ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
   ? ?+?Hard Disks                     ??Device   ?     Size?F?Enc?Type               ?FS Type?Label?Mount Point               ?
   ? ???RAID                           ??/dev/sda ?  2.00 TB? ?   ?VMware-Virtual disk?       ?     ?                          ?
   ? ???Volume Management              ??/dev/sda1?195.00 MB? ?   ?Linux native       ?Ext4   ?     ?/boot                     ?
   ? ???Crypt Files                    ??/dev/sda2?  4.00 GB? ?   ?Linux swap         ?Swap   ?     ?swap                      ?
   ? ???Device Mapper                  ??/dev/sda3?  2.00 TB? ?   ?Linux native       ?Ext4   ?     ?/                         ?
   ? ???NFS                            ??/dev/sdb ?  1.56 TB? ?   ?IET-VIRTUAL-DISK   ?       ?     ?                          ?
   ? ???BTRFS                          ??/dev/sdb1?  1.56 TB? ?   ?unknown            ?       ?     ?                          ?
   ? ???TMPFS                          ??/dev/sdd ?  7.52 TB? ?   ?IET-VIRTUAL-DISK   ?       ?     ?                          ?
   ? ???Unused Devices                 ??/dev/sdd1?  7.52 TB? ?   ?Linux native       ?       ?     ?                          ?
   ????Installation Summary            ??tmpfs    ?498.27 MB? ?   ?TMPFS              ?TmpFS  ?     ?/dev/shm                  ?

OK I can see there’s two IET virtual disks and I can tell which is which from the size.
So I know I need to mount /dev/sbd1 and /dev/sdd1 somehow.

One of these disks (extends actually) is VMFS3, the other is VMFS5.

I can mount the VMFS3 using

vmfs-fuse /dev/sdb1 /mnt/opensuse1600gb

However if I try the same using the big storage

vmfs-fuse /dev/sdd1 /mnt/opensuse7700gb

I get

Error stat()ing ‘/dev/ssd1’

If I then try

debugvmfs /dev/sdd1 df

I get

VMFS: Unsupported version 5
Unable to open device/file “/dev/sdd1”.

Is there some tool that supports mounting vmfs5?