VI3 and EMC installion instruction

[mirodriguez]

VI3 and EMC installion instruction

[weili]

How is the weather?

What EMC - AX, CX, DMX? Which Server, direct atteched?? more Infos please

Michael

[mirodriguez]

Weather is good, about 70 Degee.

I will be using EMC CX700, using 2 fiber channel cards, connect them to a cisco switch.

[weili]

Have a look at: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/clariion_wp_eng.pdf

What are your exact questions, Zoning, Storage Groups or Raid Groups?

[mirodriguez]

I need to know what kind of configuration I need to do on the VI3 side to connect to the EMC Storage.

[weili]

First of all you have do your zoning configuration and manually register your ESX Servers HBAs at the CX. After that you have to create a storage group where you put all your ESX Servers and LUNs in it.

Then you can do a rescan in VI Client -> Configuration -> Storage Adapter - please do it twice. Then when you select one of your HBAs you should see your LUNs. After that go into storage configuration an add a new Disk and format it with VMFS. That's all.

Tell me what you did already.

Michael

P.S. Sorry for my bad english

[oschistad]

Actually there is now an ESX-aware version of the Linux Navisphere agent and rather than register the ESX by hand from the GUI, you can let the host self-register by specifying system@<SP's IP address> for each storage processor on each EMC system you wish to connect with. This is a lot easier

[weili]

..... but not all flare code versions are supported with the navisphere agent!