Navisphere Agent Support on ESX

[r_engel]

Guys

Where is the doco or statement which says that Vmware do not support (or sanction) the installation of the Navisphere Agent on the ESX Host?

[TomHowarth]

I do not think there is one, VMware only recommend keeping 3rd party agents to a minumun. In fact this document shows how to configure it. it is however based on 2.5 ESX.

Tom Howarth

VMware Communities User Moderator

[TomHowarth]

another one for you this time of EMC's site on how to configure it of VI3

note all Naviagent does it make it eaiser to Zone. this can still be done manually.

Tom Howarth

VMware Communities User Moderator

[epping]

Hi i have it installed on all hosts since ESX 2.x without problems

[jguidroz]

We have it running on our ESX 3.5 hosts. No issues. Our EMC rep told us about VMware not recommending installing the agent.

[vmmeup]

It works with no problems just be aware if you have Dell servers and you don't disable the virtual media the naviagent will throw a bunch of errors about them not haivng valid partitions etc.....and it does it somewhat frequesntly.

[jose_maria_gonz]

Hi there,

Although it is better to have naviagent running within the COS (it register automatically the ESX server against the array) it can also be register manually without any agent..

rgds,

J.

[KyawH]

EMC recommends and supports installation of Navisphere Agent and CLI on all ESX 3.x hosts. When EMC supports, they have tested rigorously beforehand, and hence, no issues at all. We install EMC arrays and ESX 3.5 hosts on Dell servers days in & days out. Never had any issues. I have just installed Navisphere agents and cli on 7 ESX 3.5 hosts just a few hours ago in my very recent project, and there's no issue at all, as always. It's much more easier from the storage array management perspective if you installed the agent on the host. The agent does more than just registering with the array. Manually registering is a pain in the neck, and prone to human errors.

[bszira]

I need some help to manual register esx 3.5 to Navisphere. I don't have Navispher agent for ESX 3.5. Is there any docs which I can follow. Any help will be appricated.

Thx - BJ

[AndreTheGiant]

I use Navigent (and Navicli) RPMS both on ESX 3.x and 4.0 with no problems.

Is more flexible than use manual host registration.

Remember also to open ESX firewall ports.

Andre