I had this Dell 1950 with ESX 3.0.2 working fine with an EMC AX4-5i when it was all on the same subnet. Now that the new switch is here, I'd like to put the SAN on a seperate vlan using the 2nd nic of the server (I have to do this for a ton of servers, I'm just trying to get the first one right). The vlan is set up on the switch. Has no outside access and no gateway, nothing connected to it but the SAN and the server. It can't ping or vmkping the SAN, but I checked it on another switch and it has the same problem, there's no VLAN issue.(I connected a laptop to the vlan to check if I could ping the SAN, it works fine). Without the ping/vmkping, the naviserverutilcli can't see the SAN to register itself, and ESX can't find anything when I rescan the storage adapter.
I've looked through past posts about this and most of the time some command output was requested, so here's what's commonly asked for:
route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 vswif1
192.168.20.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vswif0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 vswif1
0.0.0.0 192.168.20.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 vswif0
(no idea where 169.254 came from)
esxcfg-vswif -l
Name Port Group IP Address Netmask Broadcast Enabled DHCP
vswif0 Service Console 192.168.20.98 255.255.255.0 192.168.20.255 true false
vswif1 Service Console 2 192.168.0.10 255.255.255.128 192.168.0.127 true false
esxcfg-vswitch -l
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports Uplinks
vSwitch0 32 3 32 vmnic0
PortGroup Name Internal ID VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
VM Network portgroup1 0 0 vmnic0
Service Console portgroup0 0 1 vmnic0
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports Uplinks
vSwitch1 64 4 64 vmnic1
PortGroup Name Internal ID VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
Service Console 2 portgroup10 1 1 vmnic1
dev-esx1-san portgroup6 1 1 vmnic1
esxcfg-vmknic -l
Port Group IP Address Netmask Broadcast MAC Address MTU Enabled
dev-esx1-san 192.168.0.13 255.255.255.128 192.168.0.127 00:50:56:61:3d:9a 1514 true
So what are my next steps outside of 'reinstall the ESX box'?