I have installed the unisphere CLI and the vsphere plugin to enable ASA so I can take advantage of snapshots etc.. from within vcenter.

have the bits installed correctly but I still have a problem that EMC support cannot resolve. I have added my VNXe 3150 in the plugin interface on my vsphere client. I am trying to complete the ASA configuration to enable snapshots from within vcenter.

Within Unisphere I have enabled ASA for all ESX nodes and I have set the password for the "asa" user.

I then go to add the password on the vcenter side by clicking EDIT on the VNXe I added, and entering the password as well as hitting the checkbox to enable ASA.

The password will not be accepted. I see the task queue up and then I get an error saying "the operation is not allowed in the current state". I also see a message saying "the remote server returned an error 500 Internal server error"

EMC says the issue is because the VNX NFS interface needs to be able to communicate with the ESX vmkernal interface.

VMware says that is not a problem and works by nature that way since you can ony specify a singel defaut gateway for the NFS storage network interface and the VMkernal interface. Furthermore they say not only EMC but other storage vendors only need to be able to communicate from their management interface to the vmkernal interface in order to take advantage of the enhance storage API's for vsphere 5.1.

The VNX management interface can ping the vmkernal interface without a problem so vmware says this is an EMC issue. The EMC guy I am working with does not know much about VSI plugin and vcenter integration. I asked to escalate but it does not seem to happen I’m in limbo now. No one at EMC seems to be able to do this in a lab or see how it is supposed to work in order to help.

I sure hope someone has done this and knows what the issue is. There is little info on the web and I already read the plugin install instructions and I am installing correctly but it still does not work.

VNXe Interfaces:

NFS = 10.0.1.10 Management = 172.16.2.100

ESX Interfaces:

NFS (vmk1) = 10.0.1.50 & 10.0.1.55

Vmkernal management (vmk0) = 172.16.2.50 & 172.16.2.55

Thanks in advance