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Trouble setting up multipath SAN

Asked by Sentinel8o in Storage Technology, VMware, Computer Servers

Tags: VMware, ESX, 3.5, Running on HP DL380 G5, HP, MSA2012i, Dual Controller ISCSI SAN

Hello,

I am having a hard time setting up multipath on ESX 3.5, the button is greyed out and i cant figure out why. I can see both vdisks on the SAN.

I have one ESX 3.5 server connected to a dual controller SAN. I have two virtual disks setup, one called vmachines and the other filestorage on the SAN. One is owened by controller A and the other is owned by controller B. The ESX server is connected DIRECTLY to the san array port 0 on controller a and port 0 on controller b. Now I know that the two different paths are working beacause if i disable controller a on the SAN then i lose connection to vservers but i still have access to filestorage. I checked the SAN to see if failover was active and it says it is so i dont know whats up. Any input would be great.

vswitch1
service console - 192.168.0.7
vmkernal - 192.168.0.3
san Conroller A IP adress - 192.168.0.2
subnet - 255.255.255.0

vsiwtch2
service console - 192.168.1.7
vmkernal - 192.168.1.3
san Controller B IP address -192.168.1.2
subnet 255.255.255.0

Equipment:
HP DL380 G5
MSA 2012i
 
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