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Help with creating LUNs on HP MSA 1000 SAN
Hi. I've got pretty much no experience with SANs, and I'm trying to configure one at our DR site for use with a single VMWare server. I have created the arrays with HP ACU and a single volume (which I guess is a LUN) for to hold the VMWare VM files on. However, when I created the volume I expected it to ask which server I want to allocate this to (is this zoning?) - presumed it would ask for a WWN of a HBA? Or does it realise that I have only one server connected to the SAN?
When I install VMWare ESX 3.0 it sees the LUN and can format it in VMFS without a problem, but I obviously won't want each VM to see each others LUN that I'm going to create.
Can someone please tell me the correct process for creating different volumes? Thanks.
The server has two HBAs (QLogic) each of which connects to a different switch, each switch connects to a sepereate module in the MSA. The MSA was in production but has been replaced and is now going to be used for DR (i.e. it has been configured before, but I cleared all the config from the ACU)
When I install VMWare ESX 3.0 it sees the LUN and can format it in VMFS without a problem, but I obviously won't want each VM to see each others LUN that I'm going to create.
Can someone please tell me the correct process for creating different volumes? Thanks.
The server has two HBAs (QLogic) each of which connects to a different switch, each switch connects to a sepereate module in the MSA. The MSA was in production but has been replaced and is now going to be used for DR (i.e. it has been configured before, but I cleared all the config from the ACU)
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Thanks for the comment. My concern is that the VMs themselves are going to have drives on the SAN e.g the file server will have a 100GB volume on there. I wouldn't want another VM (e.g. the Exchange server) to be able to see that volume.
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Thanks for the info.
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Since you can't use SAN based replication for the MSA1000 it shouldn't matter since you use VMFS and VMware decides which VM sees what vmdk file.