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FrancisVD

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December 3rd, 2015 06:00

Can't ingest unmanaged VPLEX volumes

Hello,

I'm doing a PoC with VIPR Controller 2.4 to manage existing VPLEX Metro volumes with VNX backend storage

VPLEX Metro version 5.3.0.02

VNX Backend: VNX5200

vCenter with ESX hosts: v5.1

I successfully managed to setup VIPR to create new distributed volumes.

When I do a discover unmanaged volumes, I see 115 volumes discovered in the log file.

But when I run ingest exported volumes, I only see 1 volume.

This volume happens to be a traditional LUN on Raid-5 Raid Group, while all other LUNs are on Fast-VP Pool.

Thanks for any advice or similar experiences,

More generally, how can I get support on this from EMC if we don't have a PO yet. It I can't get the PoC to work, then no PO will follow.

thanks

Francis

julien3192

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December 7th, 2015 01:00

Ddi you also discover the VNX backend array?

Do you have any vPool with the exact same definition as the volume you want to ingest ? your host is properly added/discovered into VIPR ?

You can try the following REST API command that may give you some hints (put the urn of your volume:

https://your_vipr_IP_address:4443/vdc/unmanaged/volumes/urn:storageos:UnManagedVolume:2591650b-7802-49bb-9839-c568bb0f6e33:vdc1?u…

https://your_vipr_IP_address:4443/vdc/unmanaged/bulk to get a list of all unmanaged volumes

or better run on ssh VIPR node: ./opt/storageos/bin/dbcli list UnManagedVolume to get the same.


See also ViPR 2.4 REST API (you may need to install a plugin like Postman on Chrome to send POST commands)

FrancisVD

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December 10th, 2015 05:00

Thanks Julien,

Sorry i forgot to mention that in the mean time I managed to ingest the unmanaged VPLEX volumes, including their VNX backend. I restarted VIPR config from scratch and then turned on the multi volume consistency group on the Virtual Pool definition.

It now ingests distributed volumes, but when I run the "Remove volume" service request, VIPR only removes the volume from one VPLEX cluster and not from the remote VPLEX cluster, so the service request then fails.

It's difficult doing a VIPR Controller PoC with the freewre version if one cannot involve EMC support tickets.

Regards

Francis

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