FreeNAS - Adding iSCSI Targets?

[VincibleAndy]

At the studio that I am working at we have set up a FreeNAS server and it has been working great. We use Fiber Channel cards and iSCSI to push to the Machines.  When we set this up a few months back we had Two Machines running as clients. Both machines are identical 2010 Mac Pro Towers (souped up quite a bit).  We added a 3rd, identical machine with an identical fiber card.  This machine does not talk to the server!

 

The machine sees the card, the connections, everything.  But the server doesn't seem to "push" the iSCSI drives to it.  If we install one of the Fiber cards from the two working machines it mounts right away.  We thought it was a bad card, got a few more and we get the same result.  The FreeNAS server only pushes to the two original machines.  No where can I find this same problem or even how to add the machine to FreeNAS.  From my knowledge I don't have to as long as its networked as the other two working machines.

 

We have tried every combination of hardware and software to no avail.  We dual boot Windows 10 on these as well and the two "working" cards mount up just fine, no configuration, but any other card does not.  There is almost no chance that out of the 6 cards we have now, only two happen to work!  Have also tried every combination of the SFPs from the cards too, no change.

 

If anyone has any idea how to fix this or even get us on the track to fixing it, it would be incredibly appreciated.  This has been driving us insane!  Thank you all very much in advance!

 

*EDIT*

 

The cards are LSI 7204EP-LC 4Gb Cards and the switch is a 4Gb Fiber Channel Switch.  The two working machines needed NO configuration to accept the target drives and work no matter the configuration of the switch, even directly connected.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, VincibleAndy said:

. We use Fiber Channel cards and iSCSI to push to the Machine

Why not use fiberchannel luns?n Are you using IPoFC?

 

 

 

Full specs on the freenas system. Are you using fiberchannel switches.

 

[VincibleAndy]

10 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Why not use fiberchannel luns?n Are you using IPoFC?

 

 

 

Full specs on the freenas system. Are you using fiberchannel switches.

 

Updated the iSCSI set up of the FreeNAS Server.

[unijab]

iSCSI is over IP