Problem: ESXi boot slow/stalled/stuck at “iscsi_vmk loaded successfully”

Cause

Unfortunately, this is normal due to:

  • Dynamic Discovery
  • Software, iSCSI Adapter LoginTimeout=XX, causes XX second timeout for each Dynamic discovery.

Fix

  • Leave it alone !! (It’s just slow.)
  • Reduce LoginTimeout (Dell recommends LoginTimeout=60, but that’s a “wait.” Try 20.)
  • Make it all static. (Meh, too much work.)

Additional troublshooting: Alt+F12 for console logs.