topic Re: Vmware Lun in BladeSystem - General

Vmware Lun

GB7 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:56:15 GMT

I am having some problem with VMware 3.5 ESX and EVA 4400. I have created a LUN, mapped the WWN of the Mezzanine card to the LUN, but while scanning the storage/LUN, it is not detected.
VMkernel, VMotion and IP storage have already been installed and configured.
Any idea how to get it to work?

Thanks.

Re: Vmware Lun

sterls27 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:58:02 GMT

Are you using any virtual WWN's? Or just the physical WWN's from the mezz cards? I've had some of our ESX blades have issues with updating the storage from the SAN, whether it's allocating additional storage from the SAN or extending the LUN. What update version of ESX are you running? Also, what is the firmware for the HBA's on the ESX Hosts?

Re: Vmware Lun

JKytsi — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:01:15 GMT

Do You see the LUN from HBA BIOS (CTRL+Q in server POST) ? If not, then there is a zoning issue or physical connection is not right.

Re: Vmware Lun

GB7 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:44:50 GMT

The problem was with Mezz card.
got them replaced, now everything is working fine.

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