Hi,
We are installing msa 2324i G2 sas storage array and 2 dl380 g7 servers in vmware cluster. Each server has the 2 x p411 array controllers to connect to the storage array i want to enable multipathing.
The Storage Array is built with vdisks and luns I have mapped the luns so every sas port on the array has read write access to all luns. The 4 hosts were autodiscovered no problem and they have explicit mappings read write to all luns.
We have built vmware with hp flavour esxi 4.1 update 1. The 2 p411 are picked up in the vmware esxi on each server.
I have connected both servers to the storage array. Only 1 p411 controller on 1 servers can see the luns. .
The other just do not show any paths to the storage array. I have tried multiple cabling scenerios but does not work i have tried plugging one of the non working controllers into every sas port on the array scan rescan does not work. I have tried deleting the hosts on the storage array and rediscovering I have tried rebuilding esxi not working.
The 4 x p411 controllers are dual controllers but until we get more sas cables we are just using one sas port on each controoler. If i dual cable up the working p411 i see multiple paths in vmware esxi.
Has anyone any ideas why this is not working for the other storage array.
Thks
Eoghan
UPDATE: The issue appeared to be hardware compatability i rang hp and they could not find if the p411 were supported in this configuration they sent me 4 SCo8ge hbas and it worked. Just to confirm this is not msa 2324i it is the sas msa 2324 G2 SAS
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