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AlexanderH1
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March 28th, 2016 11:00
Vplex Backend connections.
Hello all.,
I don't know if I'm reading Vplex's backend connectivity document wrong or someone hasn't gotten the time to review it. I was zoning my XtremIO to Vplex, but I'm a little bit confuse. If I follow the document I will end up with more than 4 active path to the storage, which Vplex best practices said that I shouldn't have more than 4 active path to a volume. but then if I reduce the number of paths to my storage, meaning not following a best practice document, then I will have what VPLEX needs. Can someone take a look to the document, test the zoning and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
I was following this document:
but then when I run a pre-check NDU command in VPLEX: "connectivity validate-be" if I have more than 4 active paths I will see a message such as:
Cluster cluster-2
0 storage-volumes which are dead or unreachable.
1 storage-volumes which do not meet the high availability requirement for storage volume paths*.
Director director-2-3-B
Storage array: ('FNM00000000009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~xxxxxx600009') has 1 storage-volumes which do not meet the high availability requirement for storage volume paths*.
0 storage-volumes which are not visible from all directors.
WARNING: 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
Director director-2-1-A
Storage array: ('FNM000000000000009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~FNM00152600009') has 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
Director director-2-1-B
Storage array: ('FNM00152600009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~FNM00152600009') has 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
Director director-2-2-A
Storage array: ('FNM00152600009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~FNM00152600009') has 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
Director director-2-2-B
Storage array: ('FNM00152600009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~FNM00152600009') has 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
Director director-2-3-A
Storage array: ('FNM00152600009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~FNM00152600009') has 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
Director director-2-3-B
Storage array: ('FNM00152600009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~FNM00152600009') has 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
Director director-2-4-A
Storage array: ('FNM00152600009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~FNM00152600009') has 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
Director director-2-4-B
Storage array: ('FNM00152600009', 'XtremIO~XtremApp~FNM00152600009') has 1 storage-volumes which have more than supported (4) active paths from same director.
*To meet the high availability requirement for storage volume paths each storage volume must be accessible from each of the directors through 2 or more VPlex backend ports, and 2 or more Array target ports, and there should be 2 or more ITLs.
Has anyone had the same issue than me?
I have basically zoned all the backend Vplex ports to all the Storage Frontend ports as the document mentioned for active active storage frames.
