vCenter 5.5 cluster using Fibre Channel & MSCS (Win 2003)

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• 4.1 and vCenter ESX only allows to use 1 Fibre Channel LUNS

  Hello

  I have 8 blades ESX 4.1 (build 348481) in a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis. Each blade has 2 x HBAs available. I also have a fiber channel storage array that is configured to provide 2 1.8 to LUN (for now and in the future).

  When I go in vCenter and select one of the ESX servers under "Configuration"-> "Storage adapters"-> "Rescan all...» "each server detects the table (and several paths towards it) but only shows a single available LUNS (LUN 0) when 2 LUNS should be available (LUNS 0 and 1 logical unit number). See the image below.

  

  Now, the thing that confuses me is that when I get on the command-line of the ESX via SSH server and run "esxcfg-mpath - b", I see a list of all the paths including the paths to the LUNS 0 and 1 logical unit number (see output below). Any ideas on why ESX and vCenter authorizes me to LUN 1?

  esxcfg-mpath - b:

  NAA.600508e0000000001e10a036bc3f5601: FREE Serial Attached SCSI Disk (naa.600508e0000000001e10a036bc3f5601)
  vmhba0:C1:t0:l0 LUN:0 Status: active sas adapter: 5c84c75ed0910000 target: 1563fbc36a0101e

  MPX.vmhba32:C0:t0:l0: Local USB CD-ROM (mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0)
  vmhba32:C0:t0:l0 LUN:0 Status: Active Local HBA vmhba32 channel target 0 0

  EUI.706f636c6162766f: disc SCST_FIO Fibre Channel (eui.706f636c6162766f)
  vmhba2:C0:T1:L1 LUN:1 status: active CF adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:ae WWPN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:1e target: WWNN: 20:00:00:24: ff: 32:10:f2 WWPN: 21:00:00:24: ff: 32:10:f2
  vmhba2:C0:T1:l0 LUN:0 Status: active CF adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:ae WWPN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:1e target: WWNN: 20:00:00:24: ff: 32:10:f2 WWPN: 21:00:00:24: ff: 32:10:f2
  vmhba1:C0:t0:L1 LUN:1 status: active CF adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:ae WWPN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00: target: WWNN: 20:00:00:24: ff: 32:45:c2 WWPN: 21:00:00:24: ff: 32:45:c2
  vmhba1:C0:t0:l0 LUN:0 Status: active CF adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:ae WWPN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00: target: WWNN: 20:00:00:24: ff: 32:45:c2 WWPN: 21:00:00:24: ff: 32:45:c2
  vmhba1:C0:T1:L1 LUN:1 status: active CF adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:ae WWPN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00: target: WWNN: 20:00:00:24: ff: 32:45:c3 WWPN: 21:00:00:24: ff: 32:45:c3
  vmhba1:C0:T1:l0 LUN:0 Status: active CF adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:ae WWPN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00: target: WWNN: 20:00:00:24: ff: 32:45:c3 WWPN: 21:00:00:24: ff: 32:45:c3
  vmhba2:C0:t0:L1 LUN:1 status: active CF adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:ae WWPN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:1e target: WWNN: 20:00:00:24: ff: 32:10:f3 WWPN: 21:00:00:24: ff: 32:10:f3
  vmhba2:C0:t0:l0 LUN:0 Status: active CF adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:ae WWPN: 20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:1e target: WWNN: 20:00:00:24: ff: 32:10:f3 WWPN: 21:00:00:24: ff: 32:10:f3

  MPX.vmhba32:C0:t0:L1: USB Direct-access locally (mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L1)
  vmhba32:C0:t0:L1 LUN:1 status: Active Local HBA vmhba32 channel target 0 0

  MPX.vmhba32:C0:t0:L2: USB Direct-access locally (mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L2)
  vmhba32:C0:t0:L2 LUN:2 status: Active Local HBA vmhba32 channel target 0 0

  Its because the table shows two LUNS have the same value of ID of Page 83, ESX both think you have 2 paths to the same LUN.  Paths multiple ESX driver uses the value of the ID of Page 83 to determine if 2 LUNS are the same device.

  It was a problem with that code, that it resembles yours-based Solaris beginning according to the tables and other tables that used code based on Solaris pre-COMSTAR, as well as tables that use SCWIST.

  There is really nothing you can do about it, because it is a bug in the software of the array (it shouldn't be exporting 2 LUNS different with the same ID value of Page 83 - it is a violation of the standard).

• How to use powershell to create data warehouses Fibre Channel

  Hello

  Does anyone know how to use powershell to create data warehouses Fibre Channel?

  A text file lists the data warehouse with data store names and sizes (GB) as input:
  DatastoreName1 10
  DatastoreName2 200
  DatastoreName3 10

  Version5 VMFS file system
  Block size of 1 MB

  The script should ignore LUN ID 0 as long as it is not a data store, it's a startup logic unit number.

  The value in $esxname is correct?

  Do you want to see this name when you

  Get-VMHost | Select name

• VCenter 4.1: cluster it?

  Hello

  Is it possible to Vcenter 4.1 cluster (2 nodes for example)?

  It was ok with VirtualCenter 2.5, under MSCS, but I don't see anything to do this for Vcenter 4.1...

  Thank you

  Concerning

  In our environment, our mandate is HA or not go.  Clustering is always a must... but for some odd reason, this does not applies to vcenter because it is a virtual machine that is running in a Cluster HA.  As for heart rate its good only to have a standby vcenter server and accessible. It is not mirrored DB, which can still be a single point of failure depending on your configuration.

  A few good insigts thereon:

  http://virtualfuture.info/2009/01/VMware-vCenter-SQL-Server-best-practices/

  Official KB in this issue:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1024051

  VMware, said "Yes you can do it... but.

  «You can choose to protect VMware vCenter Server with third parties including, but not limited to, MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Services) and VCS (Veritas Cluster Services) clustering solutions.» VMware does not certify these third party solutions. VMware will support all of the problems with an environment that uses third-party solutions from VMware vCenter Server downtime protection. However if your problem is considered to be related to the third party, clustering solution, VMware will send to our policy of third-party software. »

  And of course yellow bricks Duncan has something to say about it as well:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/07/16/MSCS-clustered-vCenter-Server-4-x-not-supported/

  Now Vmware HA - heartbeat is the method of SUPPORT ONLY...

  See you soon,.

  Chad King

  VCP-410. Server +.

  Twitter: http://twitter.com/cwjking

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• Problem with XServe and XServe RAID via Fibre Channel

  Hello everyone,

  I have a problem with my blended Xserve RAID.

  I see in RAID-Admin and configure it successfully (via Ethernet). Connect with our Xserve via Fibre Channel, but the XServe and XServe RAID do not detect each other.

  The fiber on the Xserve channel LEDs are white on the Xserve RAID completely off and permanent.

  RAID-Admin status of Fibre Channel: 'No connection (1 table)' with a red square.

  If I try to open the utility of fiber channel I get the message: "card Fibre Channel is not found." Utility disk OS X can't, too.

  I changed the card connector cable, and made several reboots. But each time the same thing: they do not detect each other.

  Xserve (2009):

  -2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500

  -Map of Apple dual-channel 4 Gb Fibre Channel (LSI7204EP)

  XServe RAID:

  -RAID 5 in an array (only on the left with 5 x 500 GB)

  -1.5.1 Firmware

  -Cable Apple 4 Gb SFP - SFP

  Thanks for your help and sorry for my bad English!

  Hi Mpm-Mainz,

  Check if you have enabled LUN masking. To be able to see, you will need to download raid admin 1.5 not the 1.5.1

  Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.5

  Have you also tried to use the other controller? Even if there is no disc in there, then it should appear in the preferences of fiber card system.

  Thank you
  Owen

• Brocade M5424 Fibre Channel blade switch fiber?

  Hello.

  Im trying to support this Brocade M5424 switch blade Fibre Channel equipment and its load of the GBIC 10Gbs with fiber LC connectors. What type of fiber patch cord do I need to connect to another switch? I Googled it out and check it: LC LC PATCH CORD AQUA OM3.

  But my question remains... should I fibre om2 and om3 for the best connection quality?

  Could someone help me with this?

  Thank you

  OM2 and OM3 are assessed for 10 GB. 20 meters, you could run OM2 and OM3 and be able to achieve 10 GB. Here is a guide optical and cable with some information that may be useful.

  http://Dell.to/1XK4qHn

• Uplink Ports Fibre Channel - UCS GUI Configuration Guide

  Hi all

  Could someone please explain which means that what follows in the Configuration of GUI of UCS guide @.

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/unified_computing/UCS/SW/GUI/config/Guide/2.0/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_0_chapter_0101.PDF

  Uplink Ports Fibre Channel

  Manage ports Uplink Fiber Channel FCoE traffic between the interconnection of fabric and the next layer of the

  SAN storage network. All FCoE network-related traffic is pinned to one of these ports.

  By default, the Fibre Channel ports are uplink. However, you can configure them to work as Fibre Channel

  storage ports. This is useful in cases where a Cisco UCS requires a connection to a DAS storage

  Device (DAS).

  My question is, how the FC Port could handle FCoE traffic? My understanding was that FCoE will be lifted and Enthernet connection only.

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/unified_computing/UCS/SW/GUI/config/Guide/2.0/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_0_chapter_0101.PDF

  Thanks for your help

  Concerning

  Vikas Srivastava

  The CF module interconnection fabric is the place where the speration of CF vs. FCoE happen, so it's where the FC frame is extracted in the Ethernet frame.

• Fibre Channel frames - UCS

  I was wondering if it really is possible to have the Fibre Channel frames running on a UCS?

  I read these two articles that provide some great information on the implementation of the Fiber Channel Jumbo and Jumbo frames:

  http://datacenteroverlords.com/2013/04/01/Jumbo-FC-frames/
  http://www.ccierants.com/2013/10/CCIE-DC-definitive-Jumbo-frames.html

  Everything in the SAN I'm administration has the ability to set the MTU value until 9036 except for the UCS. For example on NetApp train I can set the MTU by interface on the Cisco MDS I can set the MTU by vsan. However in the UCS Manager when I go to class of service of system quality, the option to set the MTU of Fibre Channel value is grayed out and it doesn't look like there is in any case override the preset frame size. I can set the MTU of the best Effort however my understanding is traffic Fibre Channel in the UCS will use the class system of Fibre Channel.

  Also I noticed that I can set the maximum size of the data on the vHBA field in the UCS Manager but my understanding is the maximum that can be up to 2048.

  Hello

  Have you checked

  http://datacenteroverlords.com/2013/04/01/Jumbo-FC-frames/

  Erik Smith says:
  17:52, 1 April 2013

  April fool! I wish I saw this earlier, I would have posted corroborating results!

  In short: Forget the CF frames!

• Can I disable the B200 blade Fibre Channel vHBA

  Hello

  I'm setting up my service to my B200 blades profiles and I was wondering if there was a way to disable the Fibre Channel HBA. I will not use CF as all my iSCSI storage.

  Thank you

  LTA

  When you create a service profile, you are asked if you want the storage (= CF) or not; you say no!

  If you missed this step and you have created vhba, just remove them later.

  It is not possible to disable vhna.

• Migrate from vCenter to a cluster of a nonclustered Member

  Work on a new environment and I'm stuck with something sorta here. I have 3 guests, 2 are new material (r.620) and 1 is more old (1950). The 1950s was presented today, the R620s have been about 2 weeks now.

  Now that the 1950's the mix so I created a new EVC cluster limited to Penryn, r.620 1950 and one are in the cluster. I want the other r.620 in the cluster, BUT my vCenter is running on it. Cannot migrate the vCenter for memebers cluster because it is exposed to the extensions of the processor beyond the limit of Penryn from the pole...

  A little lost on what I can do here? Is there a 'stop invited, migrate to host X, boot prompt' type function I can use?

  Assuming you are using a shared storage accessible from all hosts, vCenter Server VM power off, remove it inventory of the current host by connecting it directly to the host (using the vSphere client), and then connect to the host of the 'target', add the server vCenter back to inventory and turn it on.

  André

• Implementation of storage fibre channel (ESXi 4.1) with jumbo frames

  I'm looking for 'official' instructions for the activation of the jumbo on a host ESXi 4.1 with storage fibre channel frames. I don't know if the instructions are different, or if anything else needs to be adjusted according to your storage space.

  I looked at the instructions from this page here and it seems simple enough. It also seems that you can keep your groups of existing ports rather than having to delete and then recreate. If these good enough instructions apply it for the side host?

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & externalId = 1003712 & sliceId = 1 & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & dialogID = 322680138 & StateID = 1% 200% 20322684038

  I saw this page for iSCSI storage so that made me think if the procedure differs according to the storage.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & externalId = 1007654

  Wasisnt wrote:

  What is the reason for having to recreate them?

  If you are in 4.1 that you don't need to recreate anything, just activate via the CLI.

  And you can enable frames on a standard port group or is it just for VMkernel port groups?

  You can turn on the VM and vmkernel exchanges. Together you must also make the "virtual cards", i.e.: on the Vmkernel virtual network cards and cards of virtual network in the guest operating systems. On the Windows 2003 server, I think you have to use VMXNET3, but on Windows 2008 the e1000 should support frames too.

  As has been noted before just make sure that any layer two devices in the path is configured to allow the large frames. You can use this to confirm both Vmkernel and invited: http://rickardnobel.se/archives/992

• 10GB Ethernet - Fibre Channel

  Most of my clients can hold 10 000 to 15 000 ther budget for:

  Storage

  Infustructure network

  HBAs for ESXi host

  Are there tool or a way to find solutions for businesses who want to enter the field with Essentials more, but because of the e/s, we need more storage gigabit NIC.

  Is the next logical leap of 1 gigabit 10Gbe? Or is it Fiber Channel?

  Hey...

  "fibre channel" is essentially a storage architecture...

  You are considering fiber ethernet by opposition to the copper perhaps?... 1000BASE-SX or LX for example...

  That there is no increase in bandwidth over copper gigabit... It is used to connect longer distances, copper CAN... or connect two buildings where a connection copper between two buildings with two blocks of independent electricity is against the regulations (it is the case in the United Kingdom),

  The next viable step upwards of copper gigabit "done, team/shared resources" several gigabit copper... or 10GBE which maybe more fiber or copper.

  We use dual 10GBE fiber in our ESX host and our Center database to the production and satellite floor data centers.

  Hope that helps... after if is not the info you wanted... :-)

• Fibre Channel SAN / switch?

  can I use a 4200 ProCurve switch with optical modules to connect to a 3 host vmware SAN fibre channel?

  or I need to switch dedicated to SAN?

  My SAN is an Eternus DX80 with 2 fiber channel controller.

  Thank you too much.

  ProCurve's network switch.

  Data a switch needs dedicated, you can't mix and match network with data traffic.

• vCenter HA or Cluster with 2008?

  Could someone put me in the right direction please. I would like to create a HA for vCenter, IE: die vCenterA, the vCenterB may use and access the same, is - it possible?

  If so, what license need me and the SQL must be incluster mode or not?

  Thank you

  Hello.

  Discover either VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat or the Reference Implementation: Clustering vCenter Server 4.0 using Microsoft Cluster Services document, which also has a link to the configuration document for Microsoft Cluster Service and Failover Clustering.

  Good luck!

• Unable to access QLogic Fibre Channel HBA

  Hello

  We have RHEL4 on a Virtual Machine. We are using VMWare Server 2. Host operating system also is RHEL4. Material is Server Blade Qlogic Fibre Channel HBA. We have HP EVA SAN attached is this server blade and some virtual disks are presented.

  I also want to access SAN on a Virtual Machine, unable to detect fiber channels. I installed the QLogic on Virtual Machine driver.

  Help, please

  Try to add a SCSI device to passthrough at the prompt (when turned off).

  Guy Leech

  VMware vExpert 2009

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