topic Re: using XPINFO utility on VMware guests in XP Storage

using XPINFO utility on VMware guests

DBruno — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 01:37:48 GMT

Hi, using XPINFO on our stand-alone Windows servers works but fails on our VMWare guests. Is there a way to make it work or do the innerworkings of XPINFO prevent it from being run on a VM?

Thanks!

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Re: using XPINFO utility on VMware guests

Torsten. — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:49:13 GMT

The release notes lists all supported platforms, but no virtual machines. Because it doesn't work on your system, I would expect this is normal behavior.

Re: using XPINFO utility on VMware guests

Uwe Zessin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:05:45 GMT

In most cases the VMkernel filters and modifies the SCSI commands from the VM pretty thoroughly. You can try if you get more information with virtual or physical-mode RDMs.

Re: using XPINFO utility on VMware guests

DBruno — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:14:04 GMT

Thank you for your responses. I thought it would be the case in a virtualized environment. Do you know of any alternative utility (HP or not) or procedure that would allow a VM to "see" the LUN #s/XP ports/LDEVs? Tahnks in advance guys.

Re: using XPINFO utility on VMware guests

Uwe Zessin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:21:19 GMT

Not off-hand. You would have to find out which VMDK or RDM is bound to which VM's adapter:SCSI_ID address. Then on which datastore the VMDK is located. A datastore can be located on local disk, NFS or SAN (iSCSI / FC) storage and it can be made of multiple disks(=LUNs). Then you would have to map those disk addresses to the XP-internal ressources.

Those non-XP things can certainly be extracted using the VMware APIs, but I am not aware of a single utility you can download.

Re: using XPINFO utility on VMware guests

DBruno — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:23:59 GMT

Thanks a lot guys. I'll post a solution if and when I come up with one. :-)