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Problem to link old EMC Clariion AX150 Storage to ESX 4.0

Hi to all,

I've installed the last esx 4.0 server and I've try to link to an existing storage, EMC Clariion AX150 , both connect directly with two Fibre Channel.

From the AX 150 I see the wwn hba of ESX 4.0. I've created a virtual pool in raid 5 and I've assigned it to esx server (like see below) .

From ESX I see like show in the image1.bmp

Informations of both devices:

EMC Clariion AX150:

FLARE-Operating-Environment:

02.20.150.5.024

-SnapshotManagement:

-

-SharedStorageControl:

-

-NavisphereExpress:

-

Virtual Disk Name:

esx4

RAID Type:

RAID5

State:

Normal

Size:

1337 GB

Disk Pool:

_

Disk Pool 1

_

Attached Connections:

_

esx1-vi4

_

Virtual Disk WWN:

60:06:01:60:1C:DE:1D:00:00:F8:6E:EF:90:56:DE:11

Disk Pool Name:

Disk Pool 1

State:

Normal

RAID Type:

RAID5

Total Free Space:

429 MB

Largest New Virtual Disk:

429 MB

Raw Capacity:

1783.23 GB

Number Of Virtual Disks:

1

Virtual Disks:

NameCapacity State

_

esx41337 GB Normal

_

Disks:

DiskCapacity State

Disk 0458 GB Normal

Disk 1458 GB Normal

Disk 2458 GB Normal

Disk 3458 GB Normal

 Virtual Disk esx4 assigned To server : esx1-vi4

ESX 4.0 release 140815

Linux esx1-vi4 2.6.18-92.ESX #1 Sun Dec 14 23:27:11 PST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

FC link status

root@esx1-vi4 ~# esxcfg-scsidevs -a

vmhba0 ata_piix link-n/a sata.vmhba0 (0:31.2) Intel Corporation ICH10 4 port SATA IDE Controller

vmhba1 ata_piix link-n/a sata.vmhba1 (0:31.5) Intel Corporation ICH10 2 port SATA IDE Controller

vmhba2 qla2xxx link-up fc.200000e08b8f0e05:210000e08b8f0e05 (7:2.0) QLogic Corp ISP2312-based 2Gb Fibre Channel to PCI-X HBA

vmhba3 qla2xxx link-up fc.200100e08baf0e05:210100e08baf0e05 (7:2.1) QLogic Corp ISP2312-based 2Gb Fibre Channel to PCI-X HBA

vmhba32 ata_piix link-n/a sata.vmhba32 (0:31.2) Intel Corporation ICH10 4 port SATA IDE Controller

vmhba33 ata_piix link-n/a sata.vmhba33 (0:31.5) Intel Corporation ICH10 2 port SATA IDE Controller

vmhba34 iscsi_vmk link-n/a iscsi.vmhba34 () Software iSCSI

From ESX I can see WWN name of FC but I cannot explore them/modify path or link new AX150 virtual disk like "Storage Adapter".

Anyone have suggests?

Thanks

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you should be able to just do a rescan and the assigned lun's will show up in ESX. you do not have to do any configuration on the ESX side until a rescan of the HBA's shows the lun's, at which point you goto storage and use the add button to create your vmfs volume.

You may want to check the flare and FC firmware levels to ensure you are running a supported configuration.

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