CF Storage ALUA, LUN trespassing and some doubts

Hello!

First of all thank you all for this great community!

I'm setting up a cluster of small vSphere 5.5 and everything seems to be ok, but I have my doubts that I want to share. The configuration is the following:

VMware ESX 5.5u2 with two single HBA Emulex 8 G. (Host_HBA1 and Host_HBA2)

NetApp E2724 FC 8 G (two ports per controller) dual controller and configuration active theorytically. (Controller1_Port1, Controller1_Port2, Controller2_Port1, Controller2_Port2)

Two switches from Brocade s300 with single initiator zoning for multiple targets (Switch1: Host_HBA1 Controller1_Port1 and Controller2_Port1 and Switch2: Host_HBA2 Controller1_Port2 and Controller2_Port2)

Wiring seems to be OK and vSphere detects 4 paths per LUN, defines the driver seat automatically Robin and defines two active paths (e/s) and the other two as Active.

In the Netapp LUNS are configured as LUN in VMware O.S. (they are Dinamic disk pools Volumes) and TRA seems to be enable for this kind of host.

Well, I tried different tests (Storage VMotion between different LUNS, VMware IO monitor, create and delete virtual machines...) and everything seems to work smoothly. Strange behavior only I noticed is that when you create the storage system volumes, they are assigned to one or the other controller, and they have a "preferred owner" (ALUA). When, for example, I make a storage VMotion between two data warehouses (I have a store of data by logical unit number) and that LUN have different "privileged" controllers (LUN1 in Controller1 and LUN2 to Controller2) I noticed that the LUN2 is automatically moved to the Controller1. I don't know if this is normal behavior to improve performance or I have some configuration problem (I have a message in the journal of NetApp storage which States: I/O volume shipment implicit transfer and eventually an alarm logic unit number is not in the controller preferred). I guess the multi-channel driver using AVT to send the LUN to the same controller, but as I said, I don't know if this is normal. Would be nice if someone can clarify this point. The Storage VMotion finished well and no disk problem appears.

Thanks again for your time!

NetApp's official response is that they are aware of the problem and it will be fixed in a future firmware version.

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