Sun StorageTek 6140 Storage and ESX 3.0.2 - Host mode for path failover

[Donghwan_Kang]

Hello, all.

I try to install SunBlade 8000(ESX Server), Brocade Silkworm 200E SAN and Sun StorageTek 6140(Dual Controller, Active/Passive).

I had been created volume(RAID-5) on the 6140 storage and mapped to the ESX host. but, there are some configurable parameter

for mapping the volume to the host such as "Host Type".

- Host type list

Solaris (with Traffic Manager)

Solaris (with Veritas DMP or other)

Sun StorageTek 6920/6940

Sun StorageTek 53xx NAS Gateway

Windows 2000/Server 2003 non-clustered

Windows 2000/Server 2003 clustered

Windows 2000/Server 2003 non-clustered (with Veritas DMP)

Windows 2000/Server 2003 clustered (with Veritas DMP)

AIX

AIX (with Veritas DMP)

AIX failover

IBM - SAN Volume Contoller

HPUX

Irix

Linux

Netware failover

I choose Netware failover type, because Hostmode of Hitachi UPS is Netware on the VMware documents.

I'm not sure which type will be correct for ESX Server.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

[Crowey]

If you mean the Host Type under Storage Systems | <your SAN name> | Physical Devices | Initiators in Sun's CAM (in my case version 5.x), then you should choose Linux.

(At least that's what we've done using a Sun 6540 SAN connecting to 3 x B8000 blades running ESX 3.0.2)

[Donghwan_Kang]

Thanks, Crowey.

I will try that.

[Crowey · Accepted solution]

You'll be right mate, it was a Senior Sun/StorageTek engineer that configured our SAN (including ESX LUNs) for us ...

[Optic_Nerve]

Hi,

I use Linux host type for our Sun 6140, and Netware for our Hitachi UPS.

Cheers,

David

[Donghwan_Kang]

Thanks all,

solved the problem. STK6140 storage host type for VMware ESX is "Linux".