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groobo
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‎02-08-2008 11:02 AM

ESX 3.5 adding SAN storage can see LUNs

We just set up and installed a new ESX server it is attached to a Brocade switch and is zoned with our SAN. I am having issues adding the LUNs to the ESX storage. I have another ESX server 3.0.2 that when I go to Config tab and look under storage I see all of the names of the LUN's etc. everything is correct. When I look at the new ESX 3.5.0 Config tab under storage and I only see the default datastore1. Under Storage Adapters I can see the FC card and the SCSI target 0 shows all the LUN's by path but not by name. How can I add these LUN's so they are accessible to the ESX server? Thank in advance.

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christianZ
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‎02-08-2008 11:50 AM

For shared luns you must use the same lun id for each Esx host to present it.

Please post the output from

esxcfg-mpath -l

from your Esx 3.0.2 (where you can see the data stores)

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groobo
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‎02-25-2008 09:20 AM

This is the result of esxcfg-mpath-l sorry for the delay, multiple projects going.

Disk vmhba0:0:0 /dev/cciss/c0d0 (139979MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed

Local 6:0.0 vmhba0:0:0 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:0 /dev/sda (199702MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed

FC 11:0.0 10000000c964af66<->500a098188fc490b vmhba1:0:0 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:1 /dev/sdb (711770MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed

FC 11:0.0 10000000c964af66<->500a098188fc490b vmhba1:0:1 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:2 /dev/sdc (99328MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed

FC 11:0.0 10000000c964af66<->500a098188fc490b vmhba1:0:2 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:3 /dev/sdd (71680MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed

FC 11:0.0 10000000c964af66<->500a098188fc490b vmhba1:0:3 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:4 /dev/sde (102400MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed

FC 11:0.0 10000000c964af66<->500a098188fc490b vmhba1:0:4 On active preferred

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