Running CommandViewEVA on Virtual Server?

[Brenda Morgan]

We have EVA4000 disk arrays managed by Command View currently running on a physical server- DL380.
We'd like to virtualize this server (probably using Virtuozzo). Is this supported? Has anyone already tried this? Any warnings, suggestions?

[Uwe Zessin]

I've once tried something similar under VMware, by mapping the SACD as a "raw LUN" to a VM. CV-EVA claimed it saw an uninitialized storage array, but it's possible that I did not hit the master controller. Unfortunately I ran out of time and aborted that experiment.

Does Virtuozzo map the Fibre Channel adapter into the virtual server or can it map a "raw SCSI LUN"?

If that does not work, can't you just keep CV-EVA in the physical Windows environment?

[Brenda Morgan]

Thanks. I don't know the answer... That is a good question for us to throw at Virtuozzo.
We're in the planning stages of our server virtualization project so we can leave it on a physical box if needed.

[gurdeep_2 · Accepted solution]

I'd much rather have a physical box connected to an EVA. If you only have one server w/command view and it crashes, you have no way to manage your EVA. We have a virtual environment but my command view server sits on a physical box.

[Uwe Zessin]

I agree - a virtualized server, even if it worked, is not supported.

[Brenda Morgan]

Thanks to you both for your input. We won't pursue virtualizng this server.

[Basil Vizgin]

Unfortunately, EVA lacks out-of-band management.
Some of our clients have pure linux environment, so they did not want to buy extra windows server for EVA management. I think, this will be the great thing to get CommandView/BC/CA worked inside the virtual machine...

[Khile Klock]

It would also be a great thing to get into the UX/Linux OS!! Then we wouldn't need an extra Box in the first place... let alone a Windoze Box...