Can I mount two ESX3.5 servers on the same LUN hosted on my Clariion?

[Pasta_Fazole]

I want my two ESX servers to be able to run virtual machines located on a lun. Can I do this?

[AWo]

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[Pasta_Fazole]

AWoYour answer came to me via email, but didn't show up in the thread. Thanks, this answers my question. I appreciate your kind help.You said:"Yes. I fact when you want to use VMotion you have to do it as both ESX servers needs to the the VMFS volume and the virtual maschines located on this LUN."

[Pasta_Fazole]

The answer was: "Yes. I fact when you want to use VMotion you have to do it as both ESX servers needs to the the VMFS volume and the virtual maschines located on this LUN."

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[Rumple]

In navmanager you create a storage group.

Assign the Lun's to the storage group and then assign the host's to the storage group.

I would recommend manually setting the LUN ID as you don't want to assign LUN ID 0....

[Pasta_Fazole]

What is "navmanager" it doesn't come up under the Virtual Infrastructure Client help tool. According to Google it is a maritime navigation tool.

http://www.navsim.com/products/help/navmanager.html#aboutnavmanager

Are you referring to Virtual Infrastructure Client Resource Pools?

Rob

[IRIX201110141]

I think he mean the Service Manager which is part of Navisphere's management suite. After configuration of the zonning and pathing (FC) the LUN comes visible (rescan needed) to both servers. By the use of VMware VMFS both servers can read and write to the same LUN.

Is your clarion a FC or iSCSI modell?

regards

Joerg

[Rumple]

Altix is correct. I meant the management page on the Clariion's...forgot about the Clariion's supporting iscsi, I've only hooked up FC to them.

[Pasta_Fazole]

It is an FC.

[AWo]

Sorry, for deleting the message, the answer you received was really the answer I wanted to give.

[Pasta_Fazole]

No problem