A copy of the Lun in ESX 3.5

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• Masking the LUNS in ESX

  OK, I want to use the option in advanced settings VIC to the LUN masking.  I have 2 HBAs on ESX host, vmhba0 and vmhba1 my computer.  I want to mask LUN 3-9 on my SAN.  Thus, in the field mask LUNS, I enter this:

  vmhba0:0:3 - 9; vmhba1:0:3 - 9

  Is this enough?

  However, in my frame of VIC storage adapters, I have 2 target SCSI - I also have to add:

  vmhba0:1:3 - 9; vmhba1:1:3 - 9

  ?

  Thank you very much, I want to just make sure I have all the access roads to the non - ESX LUN masked, in order to avoid future problems of data

  Hello

  You need to hide all the paths.

  Thank you

  Samir

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• How to identify the LUN WWN of ESX 3.5

  Hi all

  We have Vcenter 2.5 environment with 3 groups each cluster with 4 ESX 3.5 hosts. LUN is assigned to each group of EMC clariion and VNX storage boxes. I want to know how can I identify the LUN WWN of ESX console numbers. I tried esxcfg-vmhbadevs - m and esxcfg-mpath - l, but I'm not able to identify the LUN WWN here numbers are these commands HBA cards. I have numbers of WWN of the two clariion LUN and provided VNX nby our storage from these WWN team I want to identify what data store is using storage?

  any suggestions

  You can try running the command console and after the release?

  Run the following command

  esxcfg-mpath-lv | grep ^ disc | grep - v vmhba0 | AWK '{print $2} '.

  then choose a vmhba unit... IE: vmhba1:02:03...

  Run the following command (replace $entry by the vmhba you chose)

  esxcfg-mpath-lv | grep disc | grep - v vmhba0 | AWK '{print $3, $5, $2} "|  cut - b15 | Cup c - 1-32, 45 | Sort + 3 | grep w $entry | AWK '{print $1} '.

  Let me know if you still get the error...

  Otherwise, it is also a way to get what you need to use powerCLI... I have scripts on my other computer, but it is currently not available...

• Get the LUN of the ESX host Info

  Hello:

  Is there a way to extract the info from the ESX host LUN?  I need (s) Lun sees number/ID to match the storage admin ID...

  Thank you very much!

  Of course, the easiest way is this

  $report = foreach($esx in Get-VMHost){
      foreach($hbaKey in ($esx.Extensiondata.Config.StorageDevice.ScsiTopology.Adapter | where {$_.Adapter -like "*FibreChannelHba*"})){
          if($hbaKey.Target){
              foreach($tgtKey in $hbaKey.Target){
                  foreach($lunKey in $tgtKey.Lun){
                      $hba = $esx.Extensiondata.Config.StorageDevice.HostBusAdapter | where {$_.Key -eq $hbaKey.Adapter}
                      $lun = $esx.Extensiondata.Config.StorageDevice.ScsiLun | where {$_.Key -eq $lunKey.ScsiLun}
                      Select-Object -InputObject $lun -Property @{N="Host";E={$esx.Name}},
                          @{N="HBA";E={$hba.Device}},
                          CanonicalName,DisplayName,@{N="LUN";E={$lunKey.Lun}}
                  }
              }
          }
      }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\lun-report.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• Copy the additional hardware ESX configuration

  I need to add a third server to my group, but don't want to redo the config together again

  Is there a simple way to copy the existing configuration / restore?

  Article of the 1000761 - ESX Server Configuration backup and restore process

  again considers the failed server, would it be the same least some steps?

  SEB

  Hello

  Usually people write a script to do the configuration for you. If the server you are restoring to that is an identical server, then you should have no problem, but if it is a new type of installation and configuration of server is your best approach.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

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• Game of series lun on ESX with the series seen on UI Compellent

  Hello

  I have a table compellent and I trimmed a volume (lun) to expose him to ESXi host.

  On the ESXi host, the serial number of logical unit number I see is:

  6000 D 310005267000000000000000017

  However,.

  UI compellent himself the series lun is shown as "00005267-00000017'.

  While I'm writing powershell scripts that work only with the lun series seen on the user interface, I'm trying to understand how to convert the longest series in the shortest on.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Response of the developer

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  OK, you get the hexagon series on the side of ESXi, you just need to match to DeviceID rather than the side series Compellent.

  $a = "6000 d 310005267000000000000000017"

  # Connect to the table

  $SCConnect = get-SCConnection - Hostname $array - user $user - pass $pw

  # Get the lun

  $vol = get-scvolume | Where {$_.} DeviceID - eq $a}

  This way you won't have to go through all the transformations and hassle; It should be clean.

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• Confusion on the LUN numbering

  Hello

  I have a question about the numbering of the logic unit number, we have fiber hosts attached to an EMC VNX 5500

  I'm looking at our facility existing and just get a sense that I need to create some new LUN shortly and I am new to fiber.

  EMC VNX we have a unit number logic that gave the LUN ID of 200, but when I match the UUID to the LUN on the host within the fiber on an ESX host card, it shows the same LUN ID 43 logic unit number, I guess it's OK as its is in place for a long time and work.

  My question is

  Why the LUN ID does not match the ID on the storage array

  I know that there is a limit of LUN ID 255 in VMware, if I was available a unit logic on the side number VNX and give it a number greater than 255, which would be OK if VMware will give a lower ID LUN in any case.

  Thank you very much

  Nick

  A LUN on a storage VNX system production has two LUN - ID, a unit number ID logic internal as a host LUN ID. The host LUN ID is the one that you can set when you present the LUN to a host, i.e. Add the LUN to a storage group.

  A good tip. I often deal with a large number of LUNS the same size and to identify them without having to check IDs, I usually take a slightly different size (for example, 1 GB). I do the same thing for virtual disks, if a virtual machine has several discs.

  André

• Canonical names of the LUNS that are available

  Hello, maybe it is simple: How can I get it back, with powercli, information on the available LUNS that can be added on an esx (glance in the attachment to understand what I mean)?

  Basically, I need to get a list of canonical of all LUN names that can be added. I don't have the canonical names of the LUNs already created as data stores.

  Thx a lot and sorry for the bad English

  To find the Canonicalname free LUNS on an ESXi server, you can do

  $esx = Get-VMHost MyEsx* $storMgr = Get-View $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.DatastoreSystem
  $storMgr.QueryAvailableDisksForVmfs($null) | Select -ExpandProperty CanonicalName
  

• Best way to remove the LUN of ESXi 4.1?

  I know that KB 1015084 talks unpresenting a LUN that contains a store of an ESX/ESXi 4.x host data without deleting the contents of the data store.

  What is the proper procedure to remove LUNS if:

  (a) I moved ALL virtual machines off the LUN to the other storage (DAS, NFS)?

  (b) the SAN will have his replaced controllers (2012i G1 upgrade controllers of P2000 G3 MSA)?

  Thank you, Tom

  If you have empty LUNS that you no longer use, simply remove them from your inventory. Once they have been removed from inventory, have your team of storage not present and remove zoning.  From there rescan your storage adapters to make sure you can't see the LUNS in question

• How to add SAN LUN in ESX of CLI?

  Hello people,

  I work for a team of engineers to implementation, where our tasks involve the construction of about 15 bunches per month.

  As part of build tasks, we end up consuming more time add the SAN LUN in the ESX servers all running ESX 4.1 through the Victoria Cross.

  I understand that the vmkfstools command could help us create a partition vmfs3 on the LUN, but when I do it asks me to set the partition to 0xfb and I believe that we should use the parted for that utility.

  I can't define it with a single command. My goal is to put these commands in a script to speed up the work.

  

  I'm also not sure if the LUN list that I see in the Terminal Server to ESX Server session is the same as what I see in the VCenter. How can I do?

  
  Comparing the two screenshots, I see an additional LUN of the Terminal Server session

  

  Would appreciate any help in this matter.

  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  Take a look on the link below

  http://www.virtu-al.NET/2009/08/28/PowerCLI-mass-provision-datastores/

  And if you work in a team of engineers, I recommend to familiarize themselves with PowerCLI, tool very powerful

  BTW, I remember if you would vmkfstool used for the creation of VMFS, data warehouses will be not aligned LUN pieces that could lead to a deterioration of storage I/O performance

  www.VMware.com/PDF/esx3_partition _align.pdf

  See you soon
  Artur
  

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers

• Increase in size of data store ESXi after increasing the size of the LUN

  Hi all

  Scenario is as follows.

  Remote site with Dell r710 ESXi 4.1 servers 2, 1 Dell MD3200i SAN with 12 600 GB drives.

  Initially when I implemented the San, I created 2 LUNS with 1 TB in each LUN.

  Now, we ran into a situation where we have 1 server which is now need more than 1 TB of sapce on it.

  I've reconfigured the table and now have a unit number logic that I spent in 2 TB to 1 TB and I now need to increase the store of data on the ESX Server.

  If I increase the size he reformatted the LUN whole or just the free space that I create?

  I don't want to remove any exisitng s VM on the SAN.

  maximum size of a vmfs is 2 TB-512 b only. extend wouldn't format the LUNS. Look at this blog: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/26/resizing-your-vmfs-the-right-way-exploring-the-next-version-of-esxvcenter/

• The migration of the VM from ESX 3.5 data center to data center inside the same building Vsphere

  Hi experts,

  Currently, we have 5 servers ESX 3.5 and a San in a shelter in the United Kingdom. This kit is now over 3 years old and the company replaces the complete kit with a new SAN, new servers and Vsphere 4.0.

  We have the opportunity to get new equipment to the top and running in the same shelter in Britain and are therefore able to run cable network between the two cabins if necessary.

  What is the best way to migrate existing virtual machines from the old environment running to the new environment running Vsphere ESX 3.5? As mentioned only the two cabins will run in the same shelter so nothing needs to go on a WAN link.

  IM keen to not load the machines on a USB key and move like that if I can help it. It appears from the research you cannot VMotion from one datacenter to another data center, however I can Storage VMotion between the two by using a method of migration cold?

  Any help will be appreciated, thanks

  agile1983 wrote:

  Disconnect a host ESX to the old environment, connect it to the new environment. (this means now that the old host as part of the new vsphere cluster can still see the old SAN?)  Then use this host as the link between the two San as you can see both of them?)

  Yes, presentation of the old drive will still be available on the assumption that it was not presentation of your San.  You can use a transit Host, which means that all the LUNS of the old environment and the new are presented to this host, but there will be a migration in a timely.  You have to vMotion invited to this host, unplug off the old environment and then in the new sVMotion (move the host and data store) to the new.  When this is done, unplug this transit host environment and add in the old, vmotion... Rinse and repeat.   Ideally, a presentation of the new LUNS to the old ESX host would be much faster.  In this way, you can bring your old environment together in the new. Make sense?

  When I disconnect and reconnect the old host to the new environment, which also happens to the virtual machines on this host? I need to move temporarily turned off?

  all comments will continue to operate without interruption.

• Manually load balancing / setting of the LUN paths.

  I am wanting to manually load balance my Lun, there are 4 paths, and I want to cycle each round logic unit through the other way and back loop number. Am on vSphere 4 Update 1.

  Browsing the web I found these two articles provide the code I'm after but the two error for me.

  http://vmjunkie.WordPress.com/2009/01/29/balancing-LUN-paths-on-your-ESX-hosts-with-PowerShell/

  http://doitsmarter.blogspot.com/

  -

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  1. Check with the user

  $vc = Read-Host "Please enter the name of the vCenter server:

  $uname = Read-Host "Please enter the user name to connect to vCenter server:

  $upass = Read-Host "Please enter the password that is associated:

  $clusterName = Read-Host "Please enter the name of the Cluster:

  Write-Host "Connection to the server vCenter $vc, please wait." - black BackgroundColor - ForegroundColor white

  SE connect-VIserver $vc - user $uname - password $upass | Out-Null

  ###

  1. Recover clustered ESX hosts

  $VMHosts = get-Cluster $clusterName | Get-VMHost

  1. Run through this loop for each host in the cluster

  foreach ($VMHost to $VMHosts)

  {

  $luns = @($VMHost | get-scsilun-luntype disque | where-object {$_.) {ConsoleDeviceName-like ' / vmfs/devices/drives/vml * "} | Sort-Object CanonicalName)

  $firstLUNPaths = get-ScsiLunPath $luns [0]

  $numPaths = $firstLUNPaths.Length

  $count = 0

  foreach ($lun to $luns)

  {

  If ($count - ge $numPaths)

  {

  $count = 0

  }

  $paths = get-ScsiLunPath - ScsiLun $lun

  $lun | Game-ScsiLun - MultipathPolicy fixed PreferredPath - $paths [$count]

  $count += 1

  1. Sleep 30 seconds to avoid saturation of the picture.

  Start-Sleep - 30 seconds

  }

  }

  -

  ---

  Initially, I found the script stumbled upon the $luns [0] which means the value is null or empty. I replaced vml with naa. Now, I got "one or several mandetory missing settings SCSI LUN". An error with the syntax, but I'm not able to establish that, I guess.

  Now, if I run certain commands on the command line I find I'm out usable. But by channeling the same row in a table or the variable, then the Write-Host of the content, I see "VMware.VIMAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1" (and so on).

  Judging by the dates of the blog posts that I am of the opinion the latest PowerCLI (v4 build 264274) can return the information in a different way, I'm wrong with my assumption?

  Can you guess what will be my next question? How could I do that now?

  Any help is appreciated and rewarded (in points not beer).

  Thank you

  Darren.

  The "vml", "naa"... depends on the type of storage are your LUNs.

  The problem with this statement is that you must specify the parameter - Scsilun.

  This can be a positional parameter (without - Scsilun), but then it has to come in position 2.

  See the page Get-ScsiLunPath .

  Try the attached script.

  I changed this line and it works for me.

  ____________

  Blog: LucD notes

  Twitter: lucd22

• Increasing the volume of ESX server storage

  I have a 5 to local disks (RAID) I add to my server ESX (3.5u5).

  When I use VirtualCenter (2.5u4) to try to add storage, it shows that he properly at 5 to say but only 1 TB is 'Available', even if it's an empty volume.

  I won't be skinning my JBOD in several volumes of 1 TB, I? Who ate a lot of disks as spare as I have for each volume...

  FWIW, this is a server for x 4150 of Sun, with a matrix external JBOD J4500 with 44 256 GB drives configured in a RAID 10 volume (and 3 rescue disks), using an external Sun StorageTek 8 - port RAID controller.

  Thank you

  Bob

  The maximum size of the LUNS that you can present is 2 TB.

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_config_max.PDF

• LUN and ESX Server - basic knowledge

  Hello...

  I'm trying to clarify the relationship of this LUN game in the Infrastructure of VI:

  (1) is it true that you can have 1 VMFS volume associated with ESX Server at a given time?   Or can we have multiple VMFS volumes running on all different LUN associated with the same ESX Server?

  (2) I know that you have have 'shared storage' between the ESX servers in a cluster of vmotion, but the fact that "the shared storage" refers to

  (a) the same VMFS volume (no matter how much LUN spans the VMFS volume) or

  (b) or can it be multiple different VMFS volumes (b/c multiple VMFS volumes can be associated to an ESX Server at a given time)

  (3) If you can have multiple VMFS volumes related to 1 ESX Server, make the virtual machine in a cluster of vmotion, they all live in the same VMFS volume?

  Thank you!

  Also remember that a VMFS data store cannot be greater than 2 TB.

  Also consider what would happen if an administrator has accidentally deleted a LUN

  VMware also creates SCSI reservations on a LUN basis whenever it creates a new virtual machine among other tasks. If these become too high, the logic unit number is locked significantly reducing the performance of the disk. Separation between the LUN, will help