ESX v3.0.1, EVA3000 - Do I need Securepath??

[Jules Payne.]

Hello again! Right then(!)...
I now have a blade enclosure cascaded off my EVA fabric. We've installed ESX v3 on one of the blades and have a couple of test VM servers. I want to use the EVA disk space to start looking into VMotion. To allow the ESX servers to have an EVA disk presented to it, do I need to install Secure Path on the Esx server, and if so, what OS version ? Thanks for any help!

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

VMware ESX server has the multipath driver embedded in the VMkernel - there is no optional software to install. Make sure that you present the virtual disk(s) at the same LUN addresses for both servers and set the correct failover policy (MRU for VCS V3) on the ESX servers.

[S-tog a s]

Hi Jules,

Upgrade your EVA3K to latest VCS release and you'll never have to worry about expensive Securepath licenses or drivers either in VMware or Windows.
NB. Easy said and easy done IF you plan correctly.

Best reg,
-Claus Bohm-

[Jules Payne.]

I dont think I can go down the VCS upgrade path as of yet - too many critical apps and quite frankly, wouldn't trust myself to do it ;-)

Anyway, on my fibre switch, I've created a new zone that just includes the EVA, managment appliance and the new ESX server.

When I goto add a new host on the EVA, the WWN doesn't appear in the drop down so I've manually added the WWN, set the OS type to Custom and given a HEX value of 000000002200282E. I've created a VDisk and presented to this host.

Is there anyway of checking if the ESX server (ESX V3 by the way) can "see" it ? I've done a vmkfstools -s on the vmhba's, but nothing returned. Am I going down the right path?! Thanks for anymore help.

[Jules Payne.]

Doh! Forgot to add the newly created zone on my fabric switch, into the active ones! Thanks for your help tho guys. Points awarded.