EMC Celerra VSA Setup Help

Hi All,

Complete virtualization noob here looking for some assistance. Just some background, I just started using VMWare software 1-2 weeks ago so I don't have much experience. Any help would be appreciated. Here is my situation:

I have two Dell PowerEdge 2950 rack servers with two NICs on each. The first server is running ESXi 4.1 with ~600GB storage with RAID10 and contains a few VMs. The second server is intended to be a storage server for the first server and has ~2.8TB with RAID5. Let's call the first server 'production' and the second 'storage'. There is only one available network cable which connects to NIC0 of the production server. I also have another cable connecting production server's NIC1 to storage server's NIC1. How exactly do I implement Celerra VSA in this situation? Is it correct to have eth0, eth2 to vSwitch0 (production's NIC0) and eth1 to vSwitch1 (production's NIC1)? I'm just a little bit lost with the network configurations in general.

If anyone could point me in the right direction - thanks a lot!

-Joseph

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August 26th, 2010 19:00

Joseph,

The configuration rules for network interfaces on the Celerra VSA provide logical and physical seperation of protocol and IP addressing. In your situation, limited network interfaces on the physical hosts, you could run all protocols over a single interface for testing and learning purposes as the aforemntioned configuration "rules" are not enforced by VMware of the Celerra VSA. Given your configuration you have a few options to present your "storage server" capacity to your ESX hosts. Before I get into those option however I would like to understand a bit more of your environment. Please send details. In the mean time please have a look at these resources:

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2010/04/new-celerra-vsa-5648701-and-updated-srm4-in-a-box-guide.html

http://nickapedia.com/2010/05/19/besser-uber-celerra-vsa-uber-v2/

Thanks,

Bernie

Sr. vSpecialist, VCP, vExpert

bernard.baker@emc.com

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