Raid Utility Inside of ESX 3.5 VM Guest OS
I have a windows 2008 guest running on esx 3.5.
I am running a dell perc 5 i controller card. I am not able to get the dell server admin or lsi megaraid admin utility to detect the controller so that i can use the raid admin inside of the os. I have not installed the specific raid card drivers (esx detects the perc and loads a lsi driver for the raid controller), should I install the actual driver from dell inside the VM or are you suppose to use the "Virtual" device driver.
is there something else causing the problem? This is my first test vm box and i am not sure if it is general practice to load the specifc hard ware drivers like you normally would or if you are suppose to continue to use the somewhat more generic drivers that are presented to the OS.
I am running a dell perc 5 i controller card. I am not able to get the dell server admin or lsi megaraid admin utility to detect the controller so that i can use the raid admin inside of the os. I have not installed the specific raid card drivers (esx detects the perc and loads a lsi driver for the raid controller), should I install the actual driver from dell inside the VM or are you suppose to use the "Virtual" device driver.
is there something else causing the problem? This is my first test vm box and i am not sure if it is general practice to load the specifc hard ware drivers like you normally would or if you are suppose to continue to use the somewhat more generic drivers that are presented to the OS.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
JasonSTL739:
With ESX 3.5, VMware released a feature called NPIV:
Heres what it does:
NPIV supportESX Server 3.5 introduces support for N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) for Fibre Channel SANs. Each virtual machine can now have its own World Wide Port Name (WWPN). You can use this feature to enable per-virtual-machine traffic monitoring using third party tools and chargeback. In a future release, NPIV will enable per-virtual-machine LUN masking capabilities. Both Emulex and QLogic NPIV HBAs are supported in the default drivers shipped with ESX Server 3.5.
Baran711:
Unfortunately your Perc controller is not supported yet, but Emulex and Qlogic are supported.
With ESX 3.5, VMware released a feature called NPIV:
Heres what it does:
NPIV supportESX Server 3.5 introduces support for N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) for Fibre Channel SANs. Each virtual machine can now have its own World Wide Port Name (WWPN). You can use this feature to enable per-virtual-machine traffic monitoring using third party tools and chargeback. In a future release, NPIV will enable per-virtual-machine LUN masking capabilities. Both Emulex and QLogic NPIV HBAs are supported in the default drivers shipped with ESX Server 3.5.
Baran711:
Unfortunately your Perc controller is not supported yet, but Emulex and Qlogic are supported.
Unfortunatley, the support it provides for Emulex and Qlogic has nothing to do with standard RAID cards.
It is meant to allow SAN administrators to "get back" the management they had to the individual OS layer. Also, WWN's and local SCSI RAID are very, very different items... as is NPIV.
It is meant to allow SAN administrators to "get back" the management they had to the individual OS layer. Also, WWN's and local SCSI RAID are very, very different items... as is NPIV.
Ah yeah - my fault. Its only for SAN configuration - not for local unfortunately...
ASKER
thanks for all of the info guys, bleeuwen was the first to provide me with an answer so i will award him the points.
That should give you what you are after.