Can you see luns at the hardware level?

[Jae_Ellers]

I'm having problems with all of my paths and luns showing up to an eva8000. Vmware wants the qlogic cards to see the luns at the hardware level, so during boot hit Ctrl+q & enter Qlogic fastutil, then select adapter, then scan devices. I see nothing in this menu and I don't think we ever have. However, I have other servers working fine with our current zoning.

Anyone know the specifics of this? I just do the esx config and we have another san admin who controls the zoning, masking, & luns.

I have two fca2214 (qla2340) single port cards in HP dl380g4 systems. Cards & ports are set to 2 Gb. Cards are in slots 1&2.

[kharbin]

If the Qlogic adapter can not see the LUNs then ESX can not see the LUNs.

When the vmkernel loads the qla2x00 driver, it queries the Qlogic card to determine what LUNs are available for its use. The Qlogic card can only present LUNs to the vmkenel that the SAN fabric presents to the Qlogic card.

check the fabric again.

[Jae_Ellers]

Ok. Except it can.... Zip shows up at the device level from the fastutil. 6-7 paths of 8 show after a reboot on one server. The other server doesn't show one hba after reboot until a rescan. Then it shows 6 of 8.

Funky. More as it develops. Have cases open with HP & VMware

[BUGCHK]

Most likely this is a zoning error.

The EVA does always present a LUN at address 0, so you should be able to see it even if no virtual disk is presented.

[Jae_Ellers]

We did find a presentation error in that two of the lun ids for the misbehaving server were swapped.