Sharing storage - 2 DLD585's and EVA3000

[kevin79]

I am in the process of adding a second DL585 G1 running ESX 3.0.1 to my farm. I already have a DL585 G1 running ESX 3.0.1 that is connected to my HP EVA 3000. I want to share the LUNs with my second ESX server but when I go to add the LUNs, ESX tries to format them. How do I add the LUNs to my second server? I looked through the install guide but I didn't see anything. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong one or something, I don't know. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I don't have Virtual Center.

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[christianZ · Accepted solution]

You shouldn't add the storage on the second host - just only "rescan" and the second host should see the lun too.

You must of course first set up the lun access right for your second host.

Hope that's clear.

[kevin79]

I did that. If I look under "Storage Adapters" and choose one of my FC cards, it shows 2 targets with all of my LUNs. (The LUN ID doesn't match between servers, should it?) but when I click on "Storage (SCSI, SAN, and NFS) I only see the vmfs volume that is on the local drives, nothing on the SAN. What am I doing wrong?

[christianZ]

(The LUN ID doesn't match between

servers, should it?)

YES it must be identical for both server.

[kevin79]

Ok, how would I do this then?

[kevin79]

Just to give some more information.

On the details for the FC cards:

Server 1:

SCSI Target 0

Path Canonical Path Capacity LUN ID

vmhba1:0:0 vmhba1:0:0 0

vmhba1:0:2 vmhba1:0:2 200.00GB 2

vmhba1:0:3 vmhba1:0:3 100.00GB 3

vmhba1:0:5 vmhba1:0:5 250.00GB 5

vmhba1:0:6 vmhba1:0:6 150.00GB 6

SCSI Target 1

Path Canonical Path Capacity LUN ID

vmhba1:1:0 vmhba1:0:0 0

vmhba1:1:1 vmhba1:1:1 20.00GB 1

vmhba1:1:4 vmhba1:1:4 25.00GB 4

Server 2:

SCSI Target 0

Path Canonical Path Capacity LUN ID

vmhba1:0:0 vmhba2:0:0 0

vmhba1:0:1 vmhba1:0:1 200.00GB 1

vmhba1:0:2 vmhba1:0:2 250.00GB 2

vmhba1:0:4 vmhba1:0:4 150.00GB 4

vmhba1:0:5 vmhba1:0:5 100.00GB 5

SCSI Target 1

Path Canonical Path Capacity LUN ID

vmhba1:1:0 vmhba2:0:0 0

vmhba1:1:3 vmhba1:1:3 25.00GB 3

vmhba1:1:6 vmhba1:1:6 20.00GB 6

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[kevin79]

Nevermind, I figured it out and the second server can see the storage now. Thanks.

[jparnell]

Using Command View EVA, when you present the vdisks to each host, make sure you assign the same LUN numbers to each vdisk presentation. i.e. Server 1 must see the 200GB vdisk as LUN 1, and Server 2 must see the 200GB vdisk as LUN 1 too.