CX3-20 - How to configure and setup metalun for sharing in a Windows 2008 failover cluster

Good morning, so i checked and found the license for PowerPath. In regards to the Metalun.. i did what you suggested and set aside one drive for each RAID group as a hot spare and it was setup as a striped metalun. Now comes the fun part. I downloaded the latest Navi, Navi CLI and PowerPath agents and installed on both of my nodes for the Win2008 Hyper-V cluster. I connected both to the Brocade switch and created 4 Aliases, they are as follows:

1st Node: HBA Port1 connects to Brocade Port 8 / Alias name convention Irvhvhost1_Port1, Irvhvhost1_Port2, Irvhvhost2_Port1 and Irvhvhost2_Port2. Remember that i have a QLE2462 dual port HBA. My following question, do i create 4 separate zones for each respective HBA port associated to the SP or do i create just 2 zones which includes Port1 for both servers and SPA1 and Port2 for both servers and SPB0? After i create either or zone setup I'll add the 2 hosts and Lun to their own storage group and will i need to reboot servers? Since it s a cluster i take it only one will have to be up to configure the LUN under cluster admin. Any thoughts?

Thanks Dynamox.

BowAdmin wrote: Good morning, so i checked and found the license for PowerPath. In regards to the Metalun.. i did what you suggested and set aside one drive for each RAID group as a hot spare and it was setup as a striped metalun.

I am not sure i am following you here, did you setup two drives as hot spares ? They should look like this in Navisphere, notice how there is private LUN 200 created inside of that raid group. Very important or HS will not kick in.

Zoning - create separate zones for each host/hba/sp pairing, ie:

zones:

server1-hba1-cx3-spb0

server1-hba1-cx3-spa1

server1-hba2-cx3-spb0

server1-hba2-cx3-spa1

server2-hba1-cx3-spb0

server2-hba1-cx3-spa1

server2-hba2-cx3-spb0

server2-hba2-cx3-spa1

Once systems are logged-in to Navishpere and registered (this should happen automatically since you are running Navisphere agent), both servers will need to be added to one storage group.

i try to match navi agent version to flare version on of my array. How many NICs on Hyper-V servers ?

Ok, so that means i should remove agents and install the previous agents i have been using. That goes for the PowerPath agent as well. As for the Nics on our servers. It has 2 quad nics. One onboard and one card.

Onboard - Setup as our management nic

quad nic card - setup with 2 teams. One for our internal domain and the other for our web domain. The onboard has static IP and the teams DHCP.

One additional piece of detail. On the 2 Hyper-V cluster nodes we are using Navi agent ver. 6.26.32.0.72 and our previous servers it Nave agent ver. 6.22.0. Do you think would make a difference? I just checked under SG and hosts list and it sees both hosts but displays as agent not connected nor does it display their IPs.

go with the latest PowerPath for your OS

Take a look at this primus solution emc62479

Ok, so i finished creating all zones under the Brocade.. similar setup to what you suggested and enabled the config. Now that i signed back into Navisphere to join them to the storage group this is what i see. I've attached some images the hosts in questions and RAID groups. Will i need to reinstall the Navi agent?

Dynamox, would mind telling me how i can access the primus solutions?

You think this is where the hostname of the server and ip goes?

in your screenshot, i can't tell if there are any private LUNs under RG 202 and 203

https://support.emc.com/search?text=emc62479

i never configure those options in the agent, just make sure the agent is bound to correct NIC (the one that can talk to SPA/SPB) as described in the primus solution.

That screen cap is for the array (Privileged user). For a EMC Array you would put in "system" as the Username and the IP of the SPA or SPB Management port (ideally you would create two entries - one for each SP).

This will create the entries in the agent.conf file and allow that array to manage the Host Agent on the host.

There is more information about the EMC Host Agent in Support article emc254967 - search on support.emc.com.

glen

Thanks for the all the info. As far as the Private LUNs, I've attached a jpeg of the HotSpare RGs and they are in a Private LUN and also attached a jpeg of my active hosts. I want it to tell you that i finally got the 2 hyper-v cluster hosts to be registered by our Clariion. Steps i took to get them to show up correctly:

1. Removed latest Navi agent and installed version 6.20 same as all other hosts

2. Created a txt file named AgentID.txt and added 2 lines of info. First line the FQDN of the host and second line its respective IP and saved it under C:\ProgramFiles\EMC\Navisphere directory

3. Last thing, i moved the order of the Nics and moved to the top of the list the nic i want it to use . I've attached pictures to reference what i am saying.

* On the host picture, do you know how i can remove the highlighted entries? Those are one of the Nic teams but is not connected.

* At this point, i will be binding both host and LUN to their own storage group. Anything else you suggest i look into?

do you see them in Connectivity Status ?