MSA1500 Selective Storage Presentation (SSP) with Raw Device Mapping (RDM)

[Luca_Deboli]

Hi to all,

our migration strategy is based on leaving the OS Partition on a VMFS disk while the Data disk will be on RDM.

The Servers involved in the migration will be a SQL Server and a Web Server, both on Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

While obviously the SSP for the LUN containing the OS partition will be LINUX, how should i set the SSP for the RDM Luns ?

Linux or Windows?

Thank in advance for your kind support, bye, Luca

[dconvery]

Luca-

Set the RDM LUN for the guest OS.

Dave

[BUGCHK · Accepted solution]

The operating system profile is a characteristic of a "connection" object, which describes a link from the servers Fibre Channel Adapter (WWN) to a specific controller port. You cannot assign a profile to a logical disk (LUN).

Even if you would run any RDM LUNs through a different physical adapter, you would set the profile to what is required for the VMware ESX server, because RDMs are handled by the VMkernel.

[dconvery]

DOH!!!! Sorry...Bugchk is correct.

Luca-

Set the RDM LUN for VMware ESX. And mark bugchk as the correct answer.

Dave