hi,
I am currently designing a project:
1. Cisco UCS blades
2. EMC VNX 5300
3. ESXi 5.0
There are 9 blades and 2 x VNX boxes . i have created 4 x vHBA (2 for boot LUNs + 2 for other LUNs). First 2 vHBA are zoned properly with both FC Switches which further connected with both VNX boxes. i have created 4 x Boot LUNs on 1 VNX and 5 on other only for boot. more than 100 LUNs are data LUNs.
Confusion 1: How each ESX host will defferentiate that this is my boot LUN, when all LUNs and ESXi hosts will reside in single storage group? is Host LUN ID 0 will work on all 9 boot LUNs?
Confusion 2: do I need to keep replica of each boot LUN across the SAN boxes, so that in case 1 SAN box goes down, blade can acccess LUN from 2nd SAN?
Confusion 3: I was reading a blog, it was saying " We can create a storage group for each vSphere host and house the boot LUN there, containing that host’s vHBA0/vHBA1, and then a “cluster storage group” and containing the entire cluster of the hosts’ vHBA1/vHBA2 initiators." What is cluster storage group he is refering to. i dont have any idea of this term or I am interperating it wrong. Simply could getting this point?
It would be a great favor for me, as I am only stuck on these points, otherwise everything is on it quite place.
Thanks in advance!
Kaashif