topic Re: Primera A650 array, VShere 8.01, WSFC Cluster in HPE Primera Storage

Primera A650 array, VShere 8.01, WSFC Cluster

Simon-Merry — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 07:35:43 GMT

Primera A650 SW Version 4.5.7

Has anyone succesfully configured Windows Failove Cluster on VMWARE with storage provided by Primera?

I have tried with vvol provisioned deisk and vmfs provisioned disk, followed the documentation about 2nd SCSI Paravirtual, Physical Bus Sharing, etc

But when I get to build the cluster in windows the validation checks fail with

Test Disk x does not support SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations commands needed by clustered storage pool that use the Storage Spaces subsystems.

Cannot find any information online about whether this is even supported with Primera.

Thankyou

Re: Primera A650 array, VShere 8.01, WSFC Cluster

veeyarvi — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 09:45:31 GMT

Hi Simon-Merry

Primera arrays support SCSI-3 persistent reservations. What is the host persona in use for these hosts?

Regards,

Veeyarvi

Re: Primera A650 array, VShere 8.01, WSFC Cluster

Simon-Merry — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:09:03 GMT

I was using Windows Server 2016 on the hosts, and these had been migrated from another Vcentre setup hosted with different stroage..

I have since recreated the WSFC cluster from scratch with the Primera using Windows Server 2019 and am pleased to report this is working no issue.

I guess with the migration of the original VMs there must be some legacy setup relating to the original hosts and storage that prevented it working with the Primera.

Issue is now resolved.

Re: Primera A650 array, VShere 8.01, WSFC Cluster

Sunitha_Mod — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:17:31 GMT

Hello @Simon-Merry,

That's awesome!

We are extremely glad to know you were able to find the solution and we appreciate you for keeping us updated.