ESXi and an old EMC CX-200

Hello

I built a laboratory with a couple of Dell 2950 s so far, a switch of brocade SAN and EMC cx-200.  I had the CX200 for more than 10 years and it works perfectly :-) nice piece of kit for a laboratory, as far as I'm concerned...

Don't know if there's someone that even these remembers, but I take a stab in the dark here...

My problem is that my ESXi hosts do not seem to register with her.  (everything works well, the guests see all storage) I don't see no host the cx-200.  Normally with our new VNX, hosts automatically record their WWN.  This does not happen with my cx-200, so I'm expecting to rounding is fairly new, or it may never have been supported.

There is a way to manually add hosts, but surprisingly, he asked an IP address rather than a WWN.  When I put the IP address of the ESXi servers in, it says that it cannot communicate with the host... that does not surprise me much.

So I guess maybe there is someone who needs to go on the ESXi hosts for this to work because I can't find the configuration settings ESXi to push the record to an IP address.

Does anyone know if there is an agent who goes on ESXi hosts?  and if yes is this abvailable, or could it be something to EMC, I guess they no longer or give because they want me to buy a NEW SAN :-(which I will obviously not do for my laboratory...

Comments or ideas on this would be very appreciated.  It is not essential, but I really wanted to mask one LUN on the SAN that I need to connect to multiple hosts who will run PHEVS.  Obviously I can hide the LUN to the ESXi esxcli level... but just wondering whether or not it is a dead-end on the SP side

Thank you

Bill

To be honest I have first experience with CX300, but it should work on CX200 as well. To work around the problem, you can manually record on EMC Navisphere host. If I remember well there are Navisphere GUI button for it but it can be done simply through NaviCLI.

Manually enter the path with host, SP, port, initiatortype, failovermode and array commpath defined. You can repeat the command for each entry.

navicli h 10.32.167.35 storagegroup - setpath-gname-o - SGNAME - hbauid 50:06:01:60:B9:A0:4 D: 58:50:06:01:63:39:A0:4 D: 58 - sp a - adapter 1 - type 3 - ip 10.1.1.1 - host HOSTNAME - failovermode 1 - arraycommpath 1

Because you do not have the EMC CX agent on hosts (ESX host) you'll have to discover WWN of your self, but this isn't a big problem, right?

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