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New ESX 3i Install - Connect to Existing MSA 500 Storage

In a test environment, I created a CentOS / VMWare server system that had VMs running off a mount on HP MSA 500 storage.

I deleted the CentOS server and installed VMWare ESX 3i.

I want to connect to the VMs on the HP MSA 500 storage but cannot. I see an option in the Infrastructure Management Client to add storage but will delete everything on the existing MSA 500 storage.

When I SSH to the ESX server, I can see the storage (vmhba2 is the MSA 500 storage):

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~ # esxcfg-mpath -l
IDE CDROM vmhba0:0:0 /vmfs/devices/genide/vmhba0:0:0 (0MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed
Local 0:31.1 vmhba0:0:0 On active preferred

Disk vmhba1:0:0 /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhba1:0:0:0 (69455MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed
Local 2:1.0 vmhba1:0:0 On active preferred

Disk vmhba2:0:0 /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhba2:0:0:0 (173658MB) has 1 paths and policy of Fixed
Local 10:1.0 vmhba2:0:0 On active preferred

~ # esxcfg-vmhbadevs
vmhba1:0:0 /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhba1:0:0:0
vmhba2:0:0 /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhba2:0:0:0
~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/disks/vmhba2:0:0:0: 182.0 GB, 182094643200 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 43585 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/disks/vmhba2:0:0:1 1 43585 177826784 fb VMFS

Disk /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:0: 72.8 GB, 72829501440 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 69455 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:1 5 750 763904 5 Extended
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:2 751 4845 4193280 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:3 4846 69456 66161280 fb VMFS
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:4 * 1 4 4080 4 FAT16 <32M
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:5 5 52 49136 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:6 53 100 49136 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:7 101 210 112624 fc VMKcore
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:8 211 750 552944 6 FAT16
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Please see the attached screenshots.

Is there a way to open the VMs located on the MSA 500 storage?

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Jeremy_in_Japan

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Thank you for your advice. I will give it a try.

What I was trying to do was copy-a-copy of a VM from production into our test environment to test a database restore. The VM was running under ESX and had snapshots applied so that is why I zapped the CentOS and installed ESX, thinking that I could just open the VM.

I am not familiary with configuring VMKernel Ports but I found this document which has pointed me into the right direction:

http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/TAC9689-A.pdf

Jeremy_in_Japan

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kumarnirmal - Unfortunately, I was not able to see the VMs.

Since this is a test environment, I will just zap the array and copy the VM again. Thanks to the both of your for your advice and pointing me in the right direction.

Jeremy_in_Japan

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Thank you again for your help.