HP P2000 G3 FC Direct Attach?

[goppi]

Hi.

Does anybody know if the HP P2000 G3 FC dual controller array is supported in a direct attach scenario of two VSphere 5.1 hosts?

If this works which HP HBAs are required to support it?

Thanks.

Regards

goppi.

[goppi]

What I found so far from the HCL is that "FC Direct Attach"

for the P2000 G3 FC is supported for the driver

"qla4xxx 5.01.03.2-3vmw" with the following features:

VMW_SATP_ALUA, VMW_PSP_MRU, VMW_PSP_RR

I assume this is a QLogic one. But what HBAs

are exactly supported this driver is for?

I also found the attached cabeling diagram from

the HP quickspec which shows the configuration

supported as well.

But do I have the full feature set availabe if

two ESXi hosts are connected to the storage

unit similar to when they are connected via fabric?

I'm especially interrested in sharing the same datastore

between both hosts and VMotion.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Regards.

[mikeyb79]

The Qlogic 4000 (qla4xxx) family are iSCSI HBAs.Not sure why they would show on the HCL as being suitable for FC Direct Attach.

[goppi]

mikeyb79 schrieb:

The Qlogic 4000 (qla4xxx) family are iSCSI HBAs.Not sure why they would show on the HCL as being suitable for FC Direct Attach.

Yes you are right.

Thanks for the answer.

Do you have any idea how to find out which controller is supported for

FC Direct Attach. The HCL seems to be wrong here.

Regards,

goppi.

[goppi]

Today I received an answer to my request from VMware partner support.

They confirmed that the P2000 G3 FC is supported in a FC direct attach configuration.

I post this here as the information may be usfule to others as well.

Cheers.