ESX 3.5 update 3
We run all of our VMs from NFS mounts on a NetApp SAN. Since SnapDrive
6 now supports Fibre Channel RDMs, we would like to take advantage of
that.
My issue is that I cannot get the RDM LUNs mapped to our test VM unless
I put the mapping file on a VMFS LUN. I cannot figure out a way to do
this through SnapDrive, only through the Virtual Console (which then
prevents connecting to the LUN via SnapDrive).
I suppose another option is to create another win2003 VM template on a
LUN instead of an NFS mount, but that eliminates the benefits of having
the VM stored on NFS & taking advantage of Snapshots &
Snapmirrors.
Has anyone found a way to use FC RDMs, SnapDrive 6.01, and an NFS mounted VM together?
(I realize we could probably use iSCSI, but we only have 1 open NIC
port left on our ESX hosts, so we would either have to buy all new
servers or forgo iSCSI dual paths.)
