ESX 4.1 help

Hello,
I'm very new to VMware and have recently been trying to help restore multiple VMs on ESX 4.1. We have no remote capabilities at this point so everything has to be done via command line. In a nutshell, most everything was configured to use a SAN (which is failing) and I'd be interested in getting some help copying the VM's to run from local storage. Can anyone help get me started with the necessary commands to accomplish this? The boot process gets stuck on "Restoring s/w iscsi volumes...Enabling software iscsi", but eventually times out and continues. After this there are nonstop "sd 3:0:4:0: still retrying x after 180s" messages occurring. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Scott,
Welcome to VMware Community,I saw the error message posted in the previous thread.I doubted it is issue with build version.Can you share your build version of esx host.
Have a try with re-scan adaptor.
VMware KB: Performing a rescan of the storage on an ESX/ESXi host
Based on the error message i found few KB below
VMware KB: Booting the ESX host fails with this message in the console: Restoring S/W iSCSI volumes
VMware KB: VMware ESX 4.1 Patch ESX410-201104406-BG: Updates mptsas, mptspi device drivers

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* Check ID: S6708496 ***
* Severity: Moderate
* Problem Statement: Cluster node (3.1 or later) OpenBoot Prom (OBP) has local-mac-address? variable set to 'false'.
* Applicability: Applicable to SPARC architecture only.
* Details for 3 Passed Checks on sun1
* Check ID: S6708605 ***
* Severity: Critical
* Problem Statement: The /dev/rmt directory is missing.
* Check ID: S6708638 ***
* Severity: Moderate
* Problem Statement: Node has insufficient physical memory.
* Check ID: S6708642 ***
* Severity: Critical
* Problem Statement: /proc fails to mount periodically during reboots.
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* End of Report 2011.02.28 at 16.04.46 EET
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Edited by: user13603929 on 28-Feb-2011 22:22
Edited by: user13603929 on 28-Feb-2011 22:24
Note: Please ignore memory error I have installed 5GB memory and it says it requires min 1 GB! i think it is a bug!
Edited by: user13603929 on 28-Feb-2011 22:25

@TimRead
Hi, thanks for reply,
I have already followed the steps also on your links but no joy on this.
What i noticed here is cluster seems to be buggy. Because i have tried to install cluster 3.3 on physical hardware and it gave me excat same error messages! interesting isnt it?
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ERROR1:
Comment: I have installed different memories all the time. It keeps sayying that silly error.
problem_statement : *Node has insufficient physical memory.
<analysis>5120 MB of memory is installed on this node.The current release of Solaris Cluster requires a minimum of 1024 MB of physical memory in each node. Additional memory required for various Data Services.</analysis>
<recommendations>Add enough memory to this node to bring its physical memory up to the minimum required level.
ERROR2
Comment: Despite rmt directory is there I gor error below on cluster check
<problem_statement>The /dev/rmt directory is missing.
<analysis>The /dev/rmt directory is missing on this Solaris Cluster node. The current implementation of scdidadm(1M) relies on the existence of /dev/rmt to successfully execute 'scdidadm -r'. The /dev/rmt directory is created by Solaris regardless of the existence of the actual nderlying devices. The expectation is that the user will never delete this directory. During a reconfiguration reboot to add new disk devices, if /dev/rmt is missing scdidadm will not create the new devices and will exit with the following error: 'ERR in discover_paths : Cannot walk /dev/rmt' The absence of /dev/rmt might prevent a failover to this node and result in a cluster outage. See BugIDs 4368956 and 4783135 for more details.</analysis>
ERROR3
Comment: All Nics have different MAC address though, also I have done what it suggests me. No joy here as well!
<problem_statement>Cluster node (3.1 or later) OpenBoot Prom (OBP) has local-mac-address? variable set to 'false'.
<analysis>The local-mac-address? variable must be set to 'true.' Proper operation of the public networks depends on each interface having a different MAC address.</analysis>
<recommendations>Change the local-mac-address? variable to true: 1) From the OBP (ok> prompt): ok> setenv local-mac-address? true ok> reset 2) Or as root: # /usr/sbin/eeprom local-mac-address?=true # init 0 ok> reset</recommendations>
ERROR4
Comment: No comment on this, i have done what it says no joy...
<problem_statement>/proc fails to mount periodically during reboots.
<analysis>Something is trying to access /proc before it is normally mounted during the boot process. This can cause /proc not to mount. If /proc isn't mounted, some Solaris Cluster daemons might fail on startup, which can cause the node to panic. The following lines were found:</analysis>
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