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Question-How to establish connectivity from vmware ESXi 5.0 hosts to VNX5300 storage processor
Can anyone point me to documentation on how to connect ESXi 5.0 hosts to a VNX5300 array? We are using Qlogic 10 GbE FCoE CNA. From what I can tell it seems like I need to add initiator records in unisphere, but i can't find any details on the process. Thanks!
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September 17th, 2011 10:00
do you know if FCOE configuration has been completed ? When FCOE configuration is complete, you just need to zone host initiators to FCOE ports on VNX and ESX will register itself automatically.
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September 18th, 2011 14:00
Did you see the Techbook for VNX with VMware on Powerlink ?
Rainer
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October 10th, 2011 07:00
hello i have a question
i am having some extrange thing in the vnx 5300 for file and block with fc conections, and in the conectivity status window,i have 4 equal hp blade servers with esxi 5.0, all of them already zoned, and registered, but just 1 is loged in and registered, and the other 3 servers are not logged in, and they can not see any storage. Any idea with hp blade and esx 5.0 with vnx, are there any tip to check, i thought that the register is going to occur automatically but unfortunately was not like that. i check zoning and the storage group many times and seems to be ok. one thing else, in the conectivity status the servers icon just 1 shows a solid computer icon, the others 3 there is showing a yellow alarm on it.
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October 10th, 2011 08:00
i will check that, the thing is if i made zoning, add all servers to the storage group, and the servers os were installed, 1 by 1 secuencially, why only one works, how to be sure where is the problem, if it is some network problem what could be the firts thing to check if i have new esxi 5.0. I can imagine that the problems comes from the hp blade slots config, but, where do i have to begin do i have to check any tcp port, do any reboot, thank you. i can administer all the servers, one by one via vmware vi-client and all can be accesible. i allready do a fc HBA rescan on all 3 servers and the same results, no vnx storage is showed. Thank you. mc.
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October 10th, 2011 08:00
is vmk0 interface assigned ip address that can talk to SPs on VNX ? You should still see your blade WWNs logged-in if zoning was done correctly and ESX has been installed.
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October 10th, 2011 09:00
yes, like that !!! only 1 server of 4 is normal (without alarm).
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October 10th, 2011 09:00
no a total of 4 servers were automatically registered, but just one is logged in, the others 3 not. yellow alarm on them. I am trying to add an image to this post but i am unable to do that. bmp, jpg, format.
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October 10th, 2011 09:00
like this ?
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October 10th, 2011 09:00
so servers are logged-in, you manually registered them, added them to the storage group and you are not seeing storage ?
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October 10th, 2011 10:00
system is not logged-in. Is system logged-in to the switch ?
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October 10th, 2011 10:00
mmmm i don´t understand. system is vnx, or system is server, how to check logged-in to the switch?. as i mention before zoning of vnx SPs with every hba of hosts were done at the switches side. i will take a look of the switch "view report" and check these last 3 servers. maybe in about 3 hours. Thank you.
mc
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October 10th, 2011 12:00
on cisco: "show flogi database"
on brocade: "switchshow"