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cookster_vifx
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February 9th, 2012 13:00
EMC Unified Storage Manager Plugin Problem
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has come across this issue before........
We have installed the EMC unified storage manager plugin onto a vSphere installation. (As well as Storage Viewer) It is talking to an EMC VNX. There is no control workstation only the SP's
Everything seems to discover well, and registration implies we have Full Provisioning Access. The account we use to connect with has full admin rights on the VNX.
Any operation that required read access is working properly, when we try an operation that required higher privilege (such as Full/Fast Clone or provisioning storage) the error below is displayed.
Has anybody seen this before, or have any ideas?
Cheers
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Posted February 9th, 2012 17:00
Hi, I have not seen this issue before. I will check with other colleagues to see if they have clue.
701
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Posted February 9th, 2012 18:00
Awesome, thanks :-)
701
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Posted February 9th, 2012 19:00
Thanks for your reply, we have pretty much come to the same conclusion. I appreciate you looking into this for us. Regards
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Posted February 10th, 2012 09:00
You say "when we try an operation that required higher privilege (such as Full/Fast Clone or provisioning storage) the error below is displayed." So does this mean that you are unable to provision a new VMFS datastore on block storage? The previous answer is true if you were trying to do something specific to NFS storage, but given your current setup you should still be able to provision a VMFS datastore on block storage. If you can't then please let me know.
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Posted February 12th, 2012 12:00
Strangely when it came to provisioning storage it came up with the same error however when we looked at the SAN it had created it. Something strange going on there still I think.
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Posted February 12th, 2012 21:00
cookster_vifx wrote:
Strangely when it came to provisioning storage it came up with the same error however when we looked at the SAN it had created it. Something strange going on there still I think.
You mean on block LUN, this software can finish the specified operation even if poping up with same error message box?
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Posted February 13th, 2012 05:00
Do you have an official support case open for this? If so, please let me know the case number. If not, then would you mind providing me the logs from a failed operation? My guess is that this is a particular environmental issue that we can resolve easily, and logs would help us to determine that. Thanks.
Jingyi1
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Posted February 9th, 2012 19:00
I have contacted the Engineering team and here's answer they give:
As the error msg implies, the operation being executed can only be supported on NFS datastore, and that is accurate (compress/decompress/fast clone/full clone of a vm can only be done on NFS datastores).
And since the user configured the VNX with only SPs and no control station, so he only has block access which means his datastore isn’t created on a NFS share, thus emerged the error.
I hope this answers your question. Please let me know if you have any more concern.