Installation of SDC on ESXi without disk (only SD card)

Hi,

Thanks.

I use this procedure, and i have manage to install the SDC.

My version :

esxcli software acceptance set --level=PartnerSupported

esxcli software vib install -d

where full_path_to_VIBis the full path to the sdc-1.32.XXX.X-esx5.5.zip

Reboot esxi.

esxcli system module parameters set -m scini -p "IoctlIniGuidStr= IoctlMdmIPStr= "

esxcli system module load -m scini

Reboot esxi.

esxcli system module list | grep sci

scini                               true        true

I should also re-map coredump partition :

esxcli system coredump partition set --partition="mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0:7"

esxcli system coredump partition set --enable=true

esxcli system coredump partition list

And register the MDM on the vsphere web UI.

The ESXi is well shown as SDC (i have no make test yet), and I see all the other SDS, SDC,...

So it is working, without the "real" SVM VM, but with my own VM on linux as SDS clusters.

Regards

Hi,

We tried to reproduce the problem in our lab, but it doesn’t reproduces on our environment (we’ve deleted all the disks on the RAID controller except for the boot disk and deleted all datastores that the ESX was aware of).

In order to proceed we need the following info - once you reproduce the problem (if possible), or if you have the historic relevant info:

1. Logs + configuration files

Windows:

C:\ProgramData\VMware\vSphere Web Client\serviceability\logs

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\VMware\scaleio

Linux:

"/var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/" or "/storage/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs"

/opt/.vmware/scaleio

2. Info from vSphere client:

- List of Devices you see on that ESX (I’m assuming there is only one).

- List of storage adapters you see on that ESX  (do you see 0 storage adapters?).

Thanks,

Tomer

Hi,

I try to go on the wizard to add SDC on ESX node :

I found on logs :

[2015-06-30 13:47:37.212] [ERROR] pool-100-thread-16            com.emc.ecs.vSpherePlugin.remoteServices.vmware.VMwareService     Failed to get host from dns name srv-virt-3.mgmt.pri.XXXXXXx.com java.rmi.RemoteException: VI SDK invoke exception:com.vmware.vim25.InvalidRequest

at com.vmware.vim25.ws.WSClient.invoke(WSClient.java:122)

at com.vmware.vim25.ws.VimStub.retrieveDiskPartitionInfo(VimStub.java:3072)

at com.vmware.vim25.mo.HostStorageSystem.retrieveDiskPartitionInfo(HostStorageSystem.java:294)

at com.emc.ecs.vSpherePlugin.remoteServices.vmware.VMwareClient.getPartitionsFormat(VMwareClient.java:1174)

at com.emc.ecs.vSpherePlugin.remoteServices.vmware.VMwareService.getNameToPartitionMap(VMwareService.java:835)

at com.emc.ecs.vSpherePlugin.remoteServices.vmware.VMwareService.getEsxCustomFields(VMwareService.java:759)

at com.emc.ecs.vSpherePlugin.remoteServices.vmware.VMwareService.getESX(VMwareService.java:1089)

at com.emc.ecs.vSpherePlugin.remoteServices.vmware.VMwareService$3.call(VMwareService.java:576)

at com.emc.ecs.vSpherePlugin.remoteServices.vmware.VMwareService$3.call(VMwareService.java:573)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[2015-06-30 13:47:39.222] [ERROR] pool-100-thread-1             com.emc.ecs.vSpherePlugin.remoteServices.vmware.VMwareService     Failed to get host information for the following hosts: [srv-virt-5.mgmt.pri.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-1.mgmt.sec.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-3.mgmt.pri.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-1.mgmt.pri.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-1.mgmt.paris.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-2.mgmt.sec.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-3.mgmt.sec.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-2.mgmt.pri.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-2.mgmt.paris.XXXXXXx.com, srv-virt-4.mgmt.pri.XXXXXXx.com]

So, with only SD card, the function retrieveDiskPartitionInfo seems to fail, and stop the host information.

I manage past week to install sdc with manual command, so "it is possible" but the ESXi info parser are "too mush sensible" in our case.

On the ESXi with have local SD card, and SAN and NAS datastore, witch FC storage adapter (and now, with my manual install, the "no name FC adapter" of SDC). On ESXi without the SDC install I have only my FC storage adapter.

Regards

Your logs were very helpful, we believe we found the problem, and the fix is awaiting validation.

Once validated, I'll update (fix is targeted for our next release 1.32.1 -> 1.32 patch_1).