using XPINFO utility on VMware guests

[DBruno]

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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[Torsten.]

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.

[Uwe Zessin]

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.

[DBruno]

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.

[Uwe Zessin]

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.

[DBruno]

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