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steveshepherd

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July 11th, 2013 04:00

PS4100 with ESXi 5.1

Hello,

We've recently purchased a PS4100 and are trying to get it configured with our ESXi hosts.

We are familiar with configuring iSCSI with storage from other vendors so assumed it would work in the same way.

We don't have an enterprise license for VMware so we can't use MEM.  We were planning to use round-robin instead.

We setup the iSCSI networking on the ESXi host as usual - 2 vmkernel ports with one physical NIC active on each. 

But the iSCSI port binding tab shows something I haven't seen before.  It is showing one path as "Not Used" status.

I've googled this but can't find anything which seems relevant.  I've checked the IP addressing and it looks ok.

How do I get this path to be active?

Thanks,

Steve

steveshepherd

9 Posts

July 12th, 2013 01:00

Yes that's the doc we followed to do the setup.  Will raise a support call anyway.

Thanks,

Steve

steveshepherd

9 Posts

July 12th, 2013 08:00

Yes we tried but there only seems to be one path available so we end up with this:

steveshepherd

9 Posts

July 15th, 2013 02:00

Thanks Don.  The output from those commands is:

~ # esxcli storage nmp device list

naa.6019cb41d4dc7744cd1aa591b4734d02

  Device Display Name: EQLOGIC iSCSI Disk (naa.6019cb41d4dc7744cd1aa591b4734d02)

  Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_EQL

  Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_EQL does not support device configuration.

 Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_RR

  Path Selection Policy Device Config: {policy=rr,iops=1000,bytes=10485760,useANO=0;lastPathIndex=0: NumIOsPending=0,numBytesPending=0}

  Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

  Working Paths: vmhba33:C0:T4:L0

  Is Local SAS Device: false

  Is Boot USB Device: false

naa.6019cb41d4dc773acb1a5591b473edab

  Device Display Name: EQLOGIC iSCSI Disk (naa.6019cb41d4dc773acb1a5591b473edab)

  Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_EQL

  Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_EQL does not support device configuration.

 Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_RR

  Path Selection Policy Device Config: {policy=rr,iops=1000,bytes=10485760,useANO=0;lastPathIndex=0: NumIOsPending=0,numBytesPending=0}

  Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

  Working Paths: vmhba33:C0:T3:L0

  Is Local SAS Device: false

  Is Boot USB Device: false

naa.6019cb41d4dc3727e01a0592b473ed2f

  Device Display Name: EQLOGIC iSCSI Disk (naa.6019cb41d4dc3727e01a0592b473ed2f)

  Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_EQL

  Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_EQL does not support device configuration.

  Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_RR

  Path Selection Policy Device Config: {policy=rr,iops=1000,bytes=10485760,useANO=0;lastPathIndex=0: NumIOsPending=0,numBytesPending=0}

  Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

  Working Paths: vmhba33:C0:T5:L0

  Is Local SAS Device: false

  Is Boot USB Device: false

naa.6019cb41d4dc5798e01a6592b4730dbd

  Device Display Name: EQLOGIC iSCSI Disk (naa.6019cb41d4dc5798e01a6592b4730dbd)

  Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_EQL

  Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_EQL does not support device configuration.

 Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_RR

  Path Selection Policy Device Config: {policy=rr,iops=1000,bytes=10485760,useANO=0;lastPathIndex=0: NumIOsPending=0,numBytesPending=0}

  Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

  Working Paths: vmhba33:C0:T7:L0

  Is Local SAS Device: false

  Is Boot USB Device: false

naa.6019cb41d4dce79fc91ac590b473cd38

  Device Display Name: EQLOGIC iSCSI Disk (naa.6019cb41d4dce79fc91ac590b473cd38)

  Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_EQL

  Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_EQL does not support device configuration.

  Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_RR

  Path Selection Policy Device Config: {policy=rr,iops=1000,bytes=10485760,useANO=0;lastPathIndex=0: NumIOsPending=0,numBytesPending=0}

  Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

  Working Paths: vmhba33:C0:T0:L0

  Is Local SAS Device: false

  Is Boot USB Device: false

naa.600508b1001c9f05bd46c3b0d2656a11

  Device Display Name: HP Serial Attached SCSI Disk (naa.600508b1001c9f05bd46c3b0d2656a11)

  Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_LOCAL

  Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support device configuration.

  Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_FIXED

  Path Selection Policy Device Config: {preferred=vmhba1:C0:T0:L1;current=vmhba1:C0:T0:L1}

  Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

  Working Paths: vmhba1:C0:T0:L1

  Is Local SAS Device: true

  Is Boot USB Device: false

~ # esxcli iscsi networkportal list

vmhba33

  Adapter: vmhba33

  Vmknic: vmk1

  MAC Address: ac:16:2d:70:ba:25

  MAC Address Valid: true

  IPv4: 10.0.1.5

  IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

  IPv6: fe80::250:56ff:fe6e:7a/64

  MTU: 1500

  Vlan Supported: true

  Vlan ID: 0

  Reserved Ports: 63488~65536

  TOE: false

  TSO: true

  TCP Checksum: false

  Link Up: true

  Current Speed: 1000

  Rx Packets: 1178513507

  Tx Packets: 3423404432

  NIC Driver: tg3

  NIC Driver Version: 3.124c.v50.1

  NIC Firmware Version: 5719-v1.29 NCSI v1.0.88.0

  Compliant Status: compliant

  NonCompliant Message:

  NonCompliant Remedy:

  Vswitch: vSwitch1

  PortGroup: iSCSI 01

  VswitchUuid:

  PortGroupKey:

  PortKey:

  Duplex:

  Path Status: last path

vmhba33

  Adapter: vmhba33

  Vmknic: vmk2

  MAC Address: ac:16:2d:70:ba:27

  MAC Address Valid: true

  IPv4: 10.0.1.6

  IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

  IPv6: fe80::250:56ff:fe69:3bf7/64

  MTU: 1500

  Vlan Supported: true

  Vlan ID: 0

  Reserved Ports: 63488~65536

  TOE: false

  TSO: true

  TCP Checksum: false

  Link Up: true

  Current Speed: 1000

  Rx Packets: 1887589

  Tx Packets: 782

  NIC Driver: tg3

  NIC Driver Version: 3.124c.v50.1

  NIC Firmware Version: 5719-v1.29 NCSI v1.0.88.0

  Compliant Status: compliant

  NonCompliant Message:

  NonCompliant Remedy:

  Vswitch: vSwitch1

  PortGroup: iSCSI 02

  VswitchUuid:

  PortGroupKey:

  PortKey:

  Duplex:

  Path Status: unused

~ # esxcfg-vmknic -l

Interface  Port Group/DVPort   IP Family IP Address                              Netmask         Broadcast       MAC Address       MTU     TSO MSS   Enabled Type

vmk0       Management Network  IPv4      172.16.1.70                             255.255.255.0   172.16.1.255    ac:16:2d:70:ba:24 1500    65535     true    STATIC

vmk0       Management Network  IPv6      fe80::ae16:2dff:fe70:ba24               64                              ac:16:2d:70:ba:24 1500    65535     true    STATIC, PREFERRED

vmk1       iSCSI 01            IPv4      10.0.1.5                                255.255.255.0   10.0.1.255      00:50:56:6e:00:7a 1500    65535     true    STATIC

vmk1       iSCSI 01            IPv6      fe80::250:56ff:fe6e:7a                  64                              00:50:56:6e:00:7a 1500    65535     true    STATIC, PREFERRED

vmk2       iSCSI 02            IPv4      10.0.1.6                                255.255.255.0   10.0.1.255      00:50:56:69:3b:f7 1500    65535     true    STATIC

vmk2       iSCSI 02            IPv6      fe80::250:56ff:fe69:3bf7                64                              00:50:56:69:3b:f7 1500    65535     true    STATIC, PREFERRED

vmk3       VMotion             IPv4      10.1.0.1                                255.255.255.0   10.1.0.255      00:50:56:6e:16:db 1500    65535     true    STATIC

vmk3       VMotion             IPv6      fe80::250:56ff:fe6e:16db                64                              00:50:56:6e:16:db 1500    65535     true    STATIC, PREFERRED

~ # esxcfg-vswitch -l

Switch Name      Num Ports   Used Ports  Configured Ports  MTU     Uplinks

vSwitch0         128         6           128               1500    vmnic0,vmnic5

 PortGroup Name        VLAN ID  Used Ports  Uplinks

 Management Network    0        1           vmnic0,vmnic5

Switch Name      Num Ports   Used Ports  Configured Ports  MTU     Uplinks

vSwitch1         128         7           128               1500    vmnic1,vmnic3

 PortGroup Name        VLAN ID  Used Ports  Uplinks

 iSCSI 02              0        1           vmnic3

 iSCSI 01              0        1           vmnic1

Switch Name      Num Ports   Used Ports  Configured Ports  MTU     Uplinks

vSwitch2         128         6           128               1500    vmnic4,vmnic8

 PortGroup Name        VLAN ID  Used Ports  Uplinks

 VMotion               0        1           vmnic4,vmnic8

Switch Name      Num Ports   Used Ports  Configured Ports  MTU     Uplinks

vSwitch3         128         12          128               1500    vmnic11,vmnic7

 PortGroup Name        VLAN ID  Used Ports  Uplinks

 VM Nics               0        7           vmnic11,vmnic7

steveshepherd

9 Posts

July 16th, 2013 03:00

OK thanks for your help anyway.

Steve

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