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EMC CLARiiON AX4-5F + VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1 FC Direct Attach support question
Hello experts,
we have been asked to validate the hardware infrastructure described below for use with a very small VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1 deployment described below:
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- 1x EMC CLARiiON AX4-5F Dual SP enclosure with Fibre Channel front-end ports.
- 2x FC Direct Attached IBM x3650 M3 hosts each running VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1. Each host will be equipped with 2x QLogic 4Gb FC Single-port HBAs
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As per VMware Compatibility Guide I understand FC Direct Attached configurations should be supported to connect ESXi hosts to an EMC CLARiiON AX4-5F System, however VMware has put some footnotes (see image below):
Could you please confirm whether an EMC CLARiiON AX4-5F FC Direct Attached configuration is actually supported for use with the very simple VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1 deployment described above and whether known limitations exist ?
As per VMware Compatibility Guide I also understand EMC CLARiiON AX4-5F Systems are currently supported for use with VMware vSphere up ESX/ ESXi 4.1 Update 1.
Could you please confirm whether EMC CLARiiON AX4-5F Systems are about to be supported for use with VMware ESXi 5 too ?
Thank you in advance for your support.
Best Regards,
Massimiliano Rizzi
etaljic81
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September 22nd, 2011 09:00
See attached image. Looks like you are good as long as you have the HBAs listed in the attached image
etaljic81
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September 22nd, 2011 10:00
Correct. FC-AL in this case means direct attach
mrizzi2
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September 22nd, 2011 10:00
Hi Ernes,
thank you for your quick reply.
I confirm I have the HBAs listed in the attached image.
As per the attached image I understand EMC also supports FC_AL (Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop).
Since Direct attach does use FC_AL protocol I can then deduce EMC also supports Direct Attached configurations.
Am I right ?
Thanks & Regards,
Massimiliano
anuj1986
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September 22nd, 2011 12:00
The configuration that you have supports Direct Attach as long as you have the HBAs listed in the image Ernes posted.