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August 30th, 2011 06:00

Set up Celerra volume for VMware

Hello,

I have a Celerra NX4 with 3 volumes set up for me. I have cifs shares on 2 of the volumes and would like to set the third one up to run Vmware esxi 4.1. I do not know where to start on this. I do know how to install on the lun once it is presented, but do not know how to set up this lun to be shared. We are using FC.

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    Posted August 30th, 2011 07:00

    when you say you are using FC ..FC drives or FC connectivity ? If you are talking about ip connectivity then you will be using NFS to present file system from Celerra to your ESX server.  Take a look at this paper

    http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/technical-documentation/h5536-vmware-esx-srvr-using-emc-celerra-stor-sys-wp.pdf

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    Posted August 30th, 2011 08:00

    Thank you for this. I am using FC for connectivity. I will look over this document. Thanks again.

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    Posted September 1st, 2011 06:00

    Thanks dynamox, forgive me if this is just a dumb question. I currently have 3 cifs shares on the system. I need two of them. Can I delete the third and just present that space to be used to export nfs for esx?

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    Posted September 1st, 2011 06:00

    Yes they do. I apologize, when I said share, I meant to refer to them as the file system behind it. The unneeded share is on an unneeded file system also.

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    Posted September 1st, 2011 06:00

    do you know if each CIFS share represents a unique file system ?

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    Posted September 1st, 2011 06:00

    sure, you can delete that share, delete the file system. Recreate the file system and export it via NFS to your ESX server(s).  When you create file system, make sure it gets mounted on the physical datamover (server_2) and not virtual data mover.