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October 28th, 2010 10:00

MD3200i / ESXi 4.1 Multipathing problem

I'm having a problem with a MD3200i and our new T710 virtual server - it works, but performance is absolutely abysmal.  Here's the details....

Server is a T710, 4 onboard nics + a 4 port Intel Server NIC.  Its running the latest update of ESXi 4.1 - right now it has 6 hosts on it, going to be 10 total (most are lightly loaded special purpose servers). Server is connected to the SAN by 4 cables direct from the 4 port Intel Server NIC to the 4 ports on the management controller

We have 4 drives (2TB SAS) in the SAN - not my first choice - but what the customer wanted. Array is set up as a RAID-10.  We have 3 logical volumes - 2 TB, 1 TB, and 750 GB.  Each is formatted as a VMFS datastore.

I followed the instructions in the Dell whitepaper for setting up the MD3200 with ESX 4.1 and it doesn't appear we have multpathing working correctly.  The VCenter Client is only showing 6 paths usable - should be 12 total (3x volumes * 4 network cards).

I've gone through the docs a handful of times, can't find anything that strikes me as an obvious problem.  Below is the output of some of the commands in the documentation - if anything else would be helpful let me know.  I feel like i'm running in to a brick wall here, any advice would be great!

 

Thanks in advance....

~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name    PCI           Driver      Link Speed     Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description                  
vmnic0  0000:01:00.00 bnx2        Up   1000Mbps  Full   00:25:64:fe:51:c1 1500   Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic1  0000:01:00.01 bnx2        Down 0Mbps     Half   00:25:64:fe:51:c3 1500   Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic2  0000:02:00.00 bnx2        Down 0Mbps     Half   00:25:64:fe:51:c5 1500   Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic3  0000:02:00.01 bnx2        Down 0Mbps     Half   00:25:64:fe:51:c7 1500   Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic4  0000:83:00.00 igb         Up   1000Mbps  Full   00:1b:21:77:3b:08 9000   Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic5  0000:83:00.01 igb         Up   1000Mbps  Full   00:1b:21:77:3b:09 9000   Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic6  0000:84:00.00 igb         Up   1000Mbps  Full   00:1b:21:77:3b:0c 9000   Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic7  0000:84:00.01 igb         Up   1000Mbps  Full   00:1b:21:77:3b:0d 9000   Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection

~ # esxcfg-swiscsi -q
Software iSCSI is enabled


~ # esxcfg-scsidevs -a
vmhba0  ata_piix          link-n/a  sata.vmhba0                             (0:0:31.2) Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9)
vmhba1  mptsas            link-n/a  sas.5842b2b04cd6af00                    (0:3:0.0) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Dell SAS 6/iR Integrated
vmhba32 ata_piix          link-n/a  sata.vmhba32                            (0:0:31.2) Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9)
vmhba33 iscsi_vmk         online    iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:spag-261d8287    iSCSI Software Adapter         


~ # esxcfg-vmknic -l
Interface  Port Group/DVPort   IP Family IP Address                              Netmask         Broadcast       MAC Address       MTU     TSO MSS   Enabled Type               
vmk0       Management Network  IPv4      10.100.101.251                          255.255.255.0   10.100.101.255  00:25:64:fe:51:c1 1500    65535     true    STATIC             
vmk1       iSCSI Network       IPv4      10.100.102.20                           255.255.255.0   10.100.102.255  00:50:56:74:38:cc 9000    65535     true    STATIC             
vmk2       iSCSI Network 2     IPv4      10.100.102.21                           255.255.255.0   10.100.102.255  00:50:56:7b:ce:6a 9000    65535     true    STATIC             
vmk3       iSCSI Network 3     IPv4      10.100.102.22                           255.255.255.0   10.100.102.255  00:50:56:75:19:70 9000    65535     true    STATIC             
vmk4       iSCSI Network 4     IPv4      10.100.102.23                           255.255.255.0   10.100.102.255  00:50:56:78:e8:66 9000    65535     true    STATIC     

~ # esxcfg-vswitch -l
Switch Name      Num Ports   Used Ports  Configured Ports  MTU     Uplinks  
vSwitch0         128         13          128               1500    vmnic0,vmnic1,vmnic2,vmnic3

  PortGroup Name        VLAN ID  Used Ports  Uplinks  
  VM Network            0        7           vmnic0,vmnic1,vmnic2,vmnic3
  Management Network    0        1           vmnic0,vmnic3

Switch Name      Num Ports   Used Ports  Configured Ports  MTU     Uplinks  
vSwitch2         128         9           128               9000    vmnic4,vmnic5,vmnic6,vmnic7

  PortGroup Name        VLAN ID  Used Ports  Uplinks  
  iSCSI Network 4       0        1           vmnic4   
  iSCSI Network 3       0        1           vmnic5   
  iSCSI Network 2       0        1           vmnic6   
  iSCSI Network         0        1           vmnic7