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homermg
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SAS P2000 Storage and Vmotion and RAW support

Hi all,

we are just thinking about a HP P2000 SAS Storage with 2 controller and 2 new hp proliant 360 hosts with sas card with min. 2 sas ports.

The only thing I'm not sure is, is this config/ hardware supports vmotion and raw device mapping on my vcenter 5.1 and 5.1 hosts?

I can't find any infos at the vmware homepage about storage connected via sas. Hope you can help me. I only have expirince with fc and iscsi storage. Was never installing sas on vmware.

Hope here some admin who did it allready.

Thanks in advance

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bekatro
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Hi,

your configuration does support vmotion and raw devices.

But I dont think this is a good way to build a VMware environment.

I dont really like direct attched storage since you do not have any scalability. And the worst way to do this is to use SAS direct attached storage.

Since you want to save some bugs, consider using FC direct attached to the P2000, since if your environment grows you call always build up the required FC fabric with FC switches to support additional servers.

With the SAS configuration you need additional SAS cables and SAS cards in the servers as well, so can use FC cards and cables as well.

Additionally have a look at the P2000 SAN Virtualization Starter kit with gbics, cables, switches for a complete, low price SAN fabric with high performance and an option to grow in size Smiley Happy

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homermg
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Hi Bekatro,

thank you for answering my question.

I'm with you, i would do that also with FC but unfortunatly for thic branch office it is the way have to do that. Other location we have p2000 with fabric installed.

Is the any information on the vmware hopeage about the p2000 sas and vmotion and raw? i can't find anything, only this: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/detail.php?deviceCategory=san&productid=17132&vcl=true

but they are no vmotion or raw options listed

Thanks

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bekatro
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Hi,

there is no specual list for vMotion or Raw Device Compatibility.

If the storage system is supported, vMotion and raw devices are configurable.

Check this thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/305217

It think this adds some additional experience from guys doing the same setup.

Hope this helps.

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