Celerra NFS Plugin

Question

Hi all.

I am trying to complete the installation of the Celerra NFS plugin for vSphere, to test against a VSA.

I am able to install the plugin and get most of the functionality working except for a few things

1. Tasks plugin - click to install - does not do anything but timeout - "Unable to connect to the remote server"

2. Fast clone - I can go through all stages - but keep on getting - "DHSM username and password is invalid"

I have a suspicion that this has to do with me having to go through a proxy.

If proxy is checked, then I cannot enable the plugin (Bad Gateway 502 Error)

Remove Proxy - and plugin is fine

But still getting these errors above.

Any ideas?

itzikr · Answer

Hi Maish,

im not sure what the effect of the proxy server are in the way it's tunneling your credentials.

why don'y you either:

1. use VMware workstation to host the ESX(i), the vCenter server and the VSA or

2. use one ESX server and install the vCenter server and the VSA on it.

I have the vSphere in a box running inside my workstation so i can ship or demo this to you.

we can also arrange a meeting in our office (since we live in the same country..) and demo this along with a Pre-GA demo of UniSphere (can do it now that it's out of the door !)

Itzik Reich
Solutions Architect, IL Virtualization Technical Team Leader

VCI,VCP4,3,VTSP4,MCTS,MCITP,MCSE,CCA,CCNA

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Maish2 · Answer

Unfortunatly neither of the options are viable at the moment

It is an authentication issue

ERROR 2010-05-12 12:28:04 [com.emc.celerra.vmware.nfs.ExtensionAwareTMI]: System.Exception: The DHSM username or password is invalid.
at com.emc.celerra.vmware.nfs.engine.CloneController.FastClone(String sourceObjectId, String sourceObjectType, String originalDestinationObjectId, String originalDestinationObjectType, Int32 cloneCount, String cloneBaseName, Boolean powerOn, String customizationSpecification)
at com.emc.celerra.vmware.nfs.ExtensionAwareTMI.<>c__DisplayClasse. b__5()

I am certain that the username and password were entered correctly

Maish2 · Answer

DHSM interface is configured

server_2 : done
DHSM FACILITY CONFIGURATION
Service name       : EMC File Mover service
Comment            : Service facility for getting DHSM attributes
Active             : True
Port               : 5080
Threads            : 16
Max requests       : 300
Timeout            : 60 seconds
ACCESS CONTROL
    Allowed IPs        : 10.x3.xx.42,10.x3.xx1.231,192.168.165.51
    Authentication     : digest ,Realm : DHSM_Authorization
    Allowed user       : maish
SSL CONFIGURATION
    Mode               : OFF
    Persona            : default
    Protocol           : default
    Cipher             : default

[nasadmin@itlabvsa1 ~]$ /nas/bin/server_http ALL -service dhsm -stats
server_2 : done

Statistics report for HTTPD facility DHSM :
   Thread activity
      Maximum in use count          : 1
   Connection
      IP filtering rejection count : 0
   Request
      Authentication failure count : 5
   SSL
      Handshake failure count       : 0

Maish2 · Answer

More progress.

I re-installed the plugin - and it looks now that I am authenticating properly, for some reason the password was not being updated in the

Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins\EMC Celerra\cfg\EMC_Celerra_Credentials.xml file

Once I removed it - I could authenticate.

But It seems that My ip is not authenticated - I am behind a NAT interface -

Statistics report for HTTPD facility DHSM :
   Thread activity
      Maximum in use count          : 1
   Connection
      IP filtering rejection count : 1
   Request
      Authentication failure count : 5
   SSL
      Handshake failure count       : 0

ERROR 2010-05-12 01:16:27 [com.emc.celerra.vmware.nfs.ExtensionAwareTMI]: System.Exception: Your client IP Address does not have access to DHSM on the Celerra. Please authorize your client on the Celerra and try again.

Where can I find the log?

richard71 · Answer

I've got the same problem.

Installed and reinstalled the plugging and still getting the same error.

Using VSA 5.6.48.701 with vsphere 4 update 1

https://10.97.1.5/servlets/wizards?object=interface&command=list&properties=name,address,mover,device
DEBUG 2010-05-12 02:41:10 [com.emc.celerra.tools.engine.apl.HttpsConnection]: Received response from Celerra: interface mover:string="server_2" address:string="10.93.1.113" name:string="nfs" device:string="cge0"
interface mover:string="server_2" address:string="128.221.253.2" name:string="el31" device:string="el31"
interface mover:string="server_2" address:string="128.221.252.2" name:string="el30" device:string="el30"
interface mover:string="server_2" address:string="10.93.1.117" name:string="iSCSI" device:string="cge1"
ERROR 2010-05-12 02:41:10 [com.emc.celerra.vmware.nfs.engine.Controller]: Compress failed for VM [test-nfs] test-terminal/test-terminal.vmx System.Exception: The DHSM username or password is invalid.
    at com.emc.celerra.vmware.nfs.engine.DhsmAdapter.ValidateNetworkInterfaceForDatamover(String nonValidatedDatamoverIp, String csHostname)
    at com.emc.celerra.vmware.nfs.engine.Controller.GetVmFlatFileType(String vmId)
    at com.emc.celerra.vmware.nfs.engine.Controller.ModifyDedupeState(Boolean dedupeEnabled, String objectId, String objectType)

any ideas what to check?

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Celerra NFS Plugin

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