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• Net M4110x - Net management and iSCSI. Clarification of the configuration steps. The documentation is at best ambiguous.

  Hi guys,.

  I'm having a lot of trouble to translate what I know PS6000 table to the new M4100x.  Here's what I'm building:

  

  I want my iSCSI traffic that is completely isolated from all other traffic, and I want to use the CMC network to run the Board.  It must be a simple configuration, but Dell documentation for which is worse than useless.  It confuses and everyone who's read it confuses.  Why is this?

  It seems that I should be able to assign the IP addresses of management using the MCC according to DELL:

  Step 1.  Initialize the storage

  * Once in the CMC right-click on storage open storage gui initialization.

  * Member name: MY_SAN01
  * Member, IP: 192.168.101.10
  * Member gateway: 192.168.101.254
  Group name: MY_SAN
  Group IP address: 192.168.101.11
  Group of Memebersip password: groupadmin
  * Password Admin group: groupadmin

  It sounds simple enough, and when I apply this I guess I will be disconnected my M4110x simply because it currently resides on a separate network (net 2 in the image above).  Now how to set up the IP address of my CMC (net0 in the picture above) network management?

  Step 2.  Set ip management port

  According to the documentation of Dell, I have:

  To set the management port:

  * Open a telnet (ssh) session on a computer or console that has access to the PS-M4110 range. The array must be configured beforehand.
   
  * Connect the PS-M4110 modules using the following racadm command: racadm Server 15 connect
   
  * Connect to the PS-M4110 array as grpadmin

  Once I am in:

  Activate the management controller ports using the following commands in the CLI:
  0 > member select MY_SAN01
  1. (array1) > eth select 1
  2. (array1 eth_1) > 10.10.10.17 ipaddress netmask 255.255.255.0
  3. (array1 eth_1) > upward
  4. (array1 eth_1) > exit
  5. (array1) > grpparams
  6. (array1 (grpparams)) > network management-ipaddress 10.10.10.17

  (array1 (grpparams)) > exit

  My interpretation is correct?  Now my questions:

  1. in step 2. SubStep 1 - How can I know what ethernet interface to use?  Step 1 automatically assume eth0?

  2. am I correct in using the same IP address for both step 2 - substep 2 and substep 6?  Or do I have to assign a different IP address for these?  10.10.10.18 maybe.

  3. step 2 - substep 6, it doesn't seem to be that a network mask is that correct?

  4. comparison of the ps6000e - I set up an IP address for each controller (so 2) and then assigned an IP address for the group.  It's 3 IP addresses.  For this M4110, it seems that I have only one controller.  Is this correct?  The specifications make a point that there are 2 controllers.  What happened to the IP address of the controller of the 2nd?

  CLOSE-UPS

  I intend on building a VMware cluster using the algorithm of multiple paths of DELL and I built it to the DSC, but a technician Dell put in place the table initially and have not set up a dedicated management port.  Required configuration routing traffic on the net iSCSI management.  It is not recommended, and I don't want to set up this way.

  Currently, he is a blocking problemand I need to go beyond this ASAP.  I work with a large system integrator in Texas and plan on the order that these systems built this way on their part.  This means that I must be able to explain to them how to proceed.  This issue is standing in the way of progress, and I really hope I can get a satisfactory response from this forum.  Thanks for any helpful answers.

  I think I have the answers to my own questions:

  1. YES.  Step 1 automatically assume eth0.  There are TWO Ethernet interfaces and eth1 is disabled by default, and unless you use step 2 to set the management port this second Ethernet interface is never used.

  2. No. I can't use the same IP address for both lines.  In lower level 6 I need to use a different IP address on the same network 10.10.10.18 would work fine.

  3. YES.  It is correct.  Lower level 6 assumes the network mask that I have included in the point 2.

  4. it's tricky.  There is NO WAY to configure Active/active on these tables.  There are 2 controllers, but one "still asleep," unless the other fails.  Actually, the IP address is assigned to an Abstraction Layer, it maintains.  When fails another controller "awakens" and just starting to accept traffic and it doesn't care what its IP address.

  Another point.  Now that my table is initialized and my interfaces are configured, I need to know what IP address to point my ESXi hosts for their storage.  Use the IP address of the group assigned in step 1.  It is 192.168.101.11 (there is typo in the original post).

• vSphere 5 and iSCSI LACP

  Hello - this is my first post here so please, be gentle.

  I tried to find information about configuring LACP in vSphere, ESXi 5. Let me give a brief overview of my environment and the objectives that we strive to achieve. We use NICs 1 GB on 6710 VDX Brocade fabric switches.

  We have a small cluster of vSphere, ESXi 5 standard edition. We have 6 physical network interface cards in each host - 2 are associated to the network of the VM, 2 are associated for vMotion/management, and the last two are vmKernal ports one two separate subnets connected using MPIO to our Compellent SAN iSCSI. This has been our test bench and we use the nic teaming in ESXi 5 running "Route based on the originating virtual port ID" with no specific switch-side config. We have other servers only using LACP 802.3ad configured on the host and the switch that work very well - gives us a better failure protection that we use two switches and plug in a link in each switch. We would like to do the same with ESXi hosts.

  Our new project is coming to virtualize a larger number of systems we currently serve. We want to do is expand our use VM to include a large (30 - big for us) number of SQL servers. The basic functions of these systems require a decent amount of e/s SAN backend. The physical servers we would be virtualize emballerions a density close to 4 / 1 or up to 8:1 with this conversion. We are concerned that having just the 2 iSCSI nic MPIO paths will not be sufficient to support the increased load of I/O.

  We would like to know if you are using LACP on the two subnet iSCSI connections and join 2 + NIC for each connection is viable in ESXi 5 and with iSCSI technology and what configuration parameters that we set up to do this.

  In addition, this project would be to use Enterprise Edition VMWare vSphere 5 - DRS or distributed switching introduced other complications or benfits for this configuration?

  Thanks for any helpful input or direction of already published documents.

  Scott

  I find using LACP / etherchannel is rarely effective or useful in VMware environments.

  For iSCSI storage, my standard configuration is to use 2 uplinks with binding of iSCSI ports. Here are the screenshots of the configuration.

  

  

  

• Configuration guide for ESXi 5 (Vmnetwork, management and vMotion) with NIC 2 network

  Hello

  I have 4 NIC in Server Blade 7 (ESXI 5), would like to dedecate 2 NIC for (Vmnetwork, management and vMotion) & NIC (iSCSI traffic) 2 with equallogic SAN.

  I equallogic guide to configure ESXI with it, but how do I configure (Vmnetwork, management and vMotion) with NIC 2, my priority is excellent speed for my virtual machine, and then nothing else.

  Then just go for classic switch.

  The configuration is a lot depend on existing infra, the trunk, the physical switch for redundant network & balance, 100 or network 1GbE, no.. virtual machines and etc. If there is a new configuration, I suggest you trunk 2 x available vmnic (the vm network) to balance the load and better performance.

• Management and vMotion have the same IP address

  Being quite new to ESXi I have spent hours to deceive and reading and do not understand why my management and vMotion interfaces have the same IP.

  The configuration is the following:

  Cisco UCS blades

  8 cards per blade

  vmnic0 and 1 - management

  vmnic2 and 3 - vmotion

  vmnic4 and 5 - IP storage

  given the VM vmnic6 and 7-

  I installed and the management network has migrated to a DVS without issues.

  Now when I create the DVS/port group for vmotion and assign the IP address I met 2 problems as you can see in the screenshot attached the blade/network.

  Thanks for any info.

  P.S., Management and vMotion are on different networks.

  Yes, the ESXi host may have a default gateway. It is used only when a vmkernel must be routed traffic.

  In the case of vMotion - as long as your vMotion enabled vmkernels are all on the same subnet and VLAN, the default gateway will never serve.

• 2 questions - group leader and iscsi

  We have a unique PS6500 of the firmware 6.0.5. From 3 days ago, Archbishop Grp freezes when I click on the member icon. I could go into all the rest of the GUI with no problems. I got the firmware installed for about a month, so I don' t think that is the problem. Has anyone else seen elsewhere?

  2nd edition - we have vmware hosts connected to QE through private switches. Vmware hosts have separate vswitches for vmotion and windows iscsi volumes. VMotion is on 10.2.0 subnet and iscsi volumes are on 10.2.1 subnet. The EQ is on 10.2.0 with a 255.255.0.0 mask. The switches are set with the VLANS separated for iscsi and vmotion.  So far in Grp Mgr, I allowed on each volume 10.2. *. *. I started to try to change it so that the vm volumes only allow connections from 10.2.0. * (vmotion subnet) and volumes windows only allow connection of the 10.2.1. *. Currently, I do not use chap or iscsi initiator to limit. Here is an example for a windows volume.

  But here is what I get in the Connections tab for this volume, even after a new analysis of storage host adapters:

  So either I completely ignore the setting of the limits of intellectual property, or my EQ has a problem. Shouldn't I have the 10.2.1 connections to this volume?

  Any ideas? Thank you.

  None of the fixes listed in the 6.0.6 release notes apply to my EQ,.

  BTW, you can add the ACL CHAP to the EQL live volume.  This will not affect existing sessions.  Just make sure that you first create the CHAP user on the table.  Then after setting the ACL volume, set the iSCSI initiator ESX to use CHAP.

  If you take a look at the RPM, you can find a few Commons left default setings.  There are some that will improve performance, other stability.

  vMotion has not EQL access at all.  It's strictly for compose the image memory of a computer virtual from one host to another ESX host.

  Storage vMotion includes EQL, but it does not use the port of vMotion to do anything.

  vMotion traffic must be completely isolated, because the content in the course of the transfer are not encrypted.   So no VM Network exchanges should be on this vSwitch and the physical switch should be isolated too.

• UCS FI and iSCSI storage

  We are poised to implement a UCS B Series. I have a question for FI 6248UP. I have read and used the emulator for UCS Manager and noticed that you can configure ports FI as ways for storage material. Is it limited to a certain protocol storage or the seller? We use Dell EQ and plan to be there to connect the EQ 6510 X. I was wondering if that is supported and if iSCSI upstream traffic would be able to access the storage?

  The 6248UPs will be passed to a pair of Catalyst 4506-E race vs. We have an IBM chassis and servers should be able to access the EQ6510X too. I guess I just need master iSCSI VLANS for the 6248UP and the servers would have access?

  Thank you!

  Hi Cowetac,

  Yes, not all storage arrays are supported by UCS, but your DELL Equalogic is supported. If you have any questions about the other compatibility of storage arrays, you can take a look at the UCS (see link below) storage interoperability matrix.

  UCS storage interoperability Matrix (matrix of the storage of UCS - B of table 10-2)

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/switches/Datacenter/MDS9000/interoperability/matrix/Matrix8.html

  I guess I just need master iSCSI VLANS for the 6248UP and the servers would have access?

  Depends, if you use one port of the device the UCS for you connect directly to storage, you can use a single vlan.

  If you are connected via the Ethernet uplinks via a switch, you need to set your switches as a trunk port.

• As part of the SAR cert is to have a NW separated between ESXi host required for VMotion or is it OK to use IP for VMotion management, in the execution of Certification tests.

  As part of the SAR cert is "have a NW/dedicated separate between hosts ESXi (on which we GOS) mandatory for VMotion or is - OK to use IP for VMotion management in the execution of Certification tests.»

  Note that the verification passed Test when you use management IP for Vmotion and without a dedicated connection to NW between ESXi hosts.

  Separate dedicated network interface cards preferred. No problem with the test after this change case.

• managed and unmanaged servers

  Hey,.

  What is the difference between management and an unmanaged machine vitrual?

  AMD when it comes to a unmanaged can it:

  be vmotioned
  be restarted
  have created a vip
  perform all tasks involving host communication

  ?

  Thank you.

  "what can cause the vms happens."

  OK, we are talking about virtual machines (VM) then.

  Given that the virtual machines running on virtual hardware and therefore use only a few other drivers as if they were running on physical hardware, basically everything that applies to real systems apply to the virtual system. This could be anything from driver issues, problems of network up to infections by the virus.

  André

• Advanced features of ESXi 4.1 - vMotion, HA and DRS.

  Hi all

  I have a dell poweredge 1950 with 2 processors dual core, 8 GB ram and 2 hard drives. I would like to install a virtual laboratory for features in advanced practical such as vMotion, HA and Drs I know I need 2 ESXi host and storage San iSCSI shared to implement.

  I have only 1 physical box that has 1 ESXi host installed. I have the vCenter, iSCSI SAN (openfiler) installed in a virtual machine. I have a laptop that has vSphere client to connect to the ESXi host through vCenter.

  Is it possible to install 2nd ESXi host in a VM on the ESXi host 1 and perform advanced functions as mentioned above. I'd appreciate your suggestions and advice.

  Thank you

  -rmshah5050.

  Can't do anything as an automatic resource pools configuration.

  How much memory assign you to virtual ESXi hosts. To properly configure HA you must assign at least ~2.5 GB to hosts.

  André

• NFS and iSCSI

  Hi all

  I will not go into another performance of iSCSI vs NFS because it isn't of interest to me, I would like to gather your thoughts on why you chose NFS or iSCSI and also the differences between the two because I'm not sure.

  The reason behind this, is based on a clean install of our Center of virtual data I have will happen soon.

  At the moment we have currently 5 virtual machines running on ESXi with two virtual machine to connect to an external iSCSI (RAID6) storage. This has worked well for over a year. (So I have no real experience with NFS)

  ESXi and VM host all five is on a 10 k SAS drives RAID1, but now I'm going to follow best practices now that we bought VMware Essentials.

  I'll put the host on the machine and the VM 5 on another separate NAS (ReadyNAS NVX) data store. I will use one of the 4 NETWORK card to connect directly on the NAS using a straight through cable, and the other three in a switch.

  Now, this is why I ask the question. Can I use NFS or iSCSI, on what I've seen there is a lot more technical documents and videos based on iSCSI, but according to me, it's because its aimed at the business market and the huge amount of VM.

  The future may hold an another VM 2-4 but no more than that.

  I have been recommended NFS in the external network manager and trust his opinion but feel that I have no experience of NFS.

  Tips are welcome.

  Specification of the server

  Reference Dell R710

  2 x Xeon processor Sockets (don't remember what model I'm typing this at home)

  24 GB Ram

  2 x RAID1 SAS drives

  4 x Broadcom NIC with iSCSI unloading

  This is the IP address on the cable, a crossover will do.

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

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• In older firefox if I stop firefox.exe to the Task Manager and start firefox it will restore all my open tabs, now it doesn't

  usually in the earlier version as 28, so I end the process "firefox.exe" task manager and run back the firefox, it will restore the tabs normally I opened (websites that I had until I stop the firefox.exe)
  But now that more recent versions, not give me this feature, restore session screen becomes white and I drop my open sessions.
  I have to use the history to restore the sessions that I lost,

  Please can someone take a look at this problem, it would be an interesting option to stop the firefox.exe in the Manager of tasks and able to restore all the sessions again

  I have attached a picture for your information

  Thank you
  regarding

  Unfortunately the image have no download, but there are built in the back of the inverter session. If these do not work correctly, we are happy to investigate.

  • The problems of Firefox in Mode safe

  However, there is an addon that helps with backups called session manager Session.

• I have install an add-on for Firefox, but it does not appear in my list of Add-ons Manager, and after I restarted Firefox, it went.

  I try to install 1-Click Youtube Video dDownloader, which is supposed to add a download button to Yuotube video pages. I go here:

  https://addons.Mozilla.org/en-us/Firefox/addon/1-click-YouTube-video-download/

  and I click 'add to Firefox '. It gives me the window "install now". I click on 'Install now' and it is said that Firefox has to restart and it will be installed when Firefox opens again. If I click "Restart now" and restart Firefox. Then I go on Youtube, but no button. I check the page of the Add-ons Manager, and I see that it is installed in the extensions. So, if I go to the page and click 'Add to Firefox' once again and restart once again, go to Youtube, the download button IS there, and it works perfectly. But if I exit and restart Firefox, the download button is once again absent, but the extension is always installed. Why this extension works only when I restart twice, and then it disappears again?

  When the button does not appear, but the extension is marked as active, try to reload the page to Youtube without using the cache by pressing command + shift + r to see if that triggers the extension to insert the button.

  If it remains inconsistent, I would like to ask the developer to Add on to their Contact page: http://www.clickvideodownload.com/contact.php

• Why Apple can't do two systems? First of all, we are protected, and the other is free just like android, but in the style of the iOS and Apple needs a request so we can manage and see new products from an application and do not go on this site!

  Why Apple can't do two systems? First of all, we are protected, and the other is free just like android, but in the style of the iOS and Apple needs a request so we can manage and see new products from an application and do not go on this site!

  and I don't know that if Apple make a system more freely, there no need for any device on Earth but iPhone.

  http://www.Apple.com/feedback/

• I just added a "Add Manager" and now I can't find it anywhere, he hides or IM just not at the right place? Please help, thanks

  I downloaded 'Slims add on Manager' and now I can't find it anywhere.

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