Solved: How do you add/configure a new HOST and pointer on MD3200i?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Firstly you must create the LUNs for the new physical Windows 2008 servers, that you require for clustering.

It is then important to make a note of the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator names from the two Windows 2008 servers, and ONLY allocate these iSCSI Initiator names to have access to the LUNs.

Usually you map these initiators to the LUN. Make sure that the ESX hosts do not also connect to these LUNs.

In the Microsoft iSCSI initiator on the Windows 2008 server, you must specifiy the SAN IP address or addresses?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

After you connect to the array with the iSCSI initiator from the Windows 2008 Servers, you will have to go back to the array (MD Storage Manager), create hosts with this new iqn . You should then map the new raid 10 VD map it to the new hosts. Once you do this, you should be able to see the disks show up under disk management.

Jaime Campos

ASKER

hanccocka, Thanks so much!!!!

I'm going to give it a try in the morning. I'll post my results soon.

Thanks,

nimdatx

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

be very careful and DO NOT assign access to the ESX LUNs! from the Windows Servers.

Jaime Campos

ASKER

Firstly you must create the LUNs for the new physical Windows 2008 servers, that you require for clustering.

STANDARD VIRTUAL DISKS------------------------------

SUMMARY

Number of standard virtual disks: 4

See other Virtual Disks sub-tabs for premium feature information.

NAME STATUS CAPACITY RAID LEVEL DISK GROUP MEDIA TYPE INTERFACE TYPE
1 Optimal 1,316.316 GB 5 0 Hard Disk Physical Disk SAS
2 Optimal 1,126.309 GB 5 0 Hard Disk Physical Disk SAS
3 Optimal 837.371 GB 10 EMRDATA Hard Disk Physical Disk SAS
4 Optimal 814.188 GB 5 0 Hard Disk Physical Disk SAS

Note: Disk Group 0 is ESX Servers and EMRDATA is for Windows servers 2008 Enterprise.

PROFILE FOR STORAGE ARRAY: MD3200i (Tue Apr 19 09:26:40 CDT 2011)

MAPPINGS (Storage Partitioning - Enabled (2 of 32 used))-------------------

Virtual Disk Name LUN RAID Controller Module Accessible by Virtual Disk status
Access Virtual Disk 31 0,1 Host Group VMCluster Optimal
1 0 0 Host Group VMCluster Optimal
2 1 1 Host Group VMCluster Optimal
4 2 1 Host Group VMCluster Optimal
Access Virtual Disk 31 0,1 Host Group emrdbcluster Optimal
3 0 0 Host Group emrdbcluster Optimal
Access Virtual Disk 31 0,1 Storage Array Optimal

TOPOLOGY DEFINITIONS

STORAGE ARRAY
Default type: Windows
Initiator: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:esx1-74b0d1e6
Initiator: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:esx2-0229ad52
Initiator: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:esx3-5f6ec69a
Initiator: iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:emrdatabase1.rapa.local
Initiator: iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:emrdatabase2.rapa.local

Default Group

Host Group: VMCluster
Host: esx1
Host type: VMWARE
Interface type: iSCSI
Initiator: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:esx1-74b0d1e6
Alias: None
Label: esx1-1
CHAP secret: None

Host: esx2
Host type: VMWARE
Interface type: iSCSI
Initiator: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:esx2-0229ad52
Alias: None
Label: esx2-1
CHAP secret: None

Host: esx3
Host type: VMWARE
Interface type: iSCSI
Initiator: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:esx3-5f6ec69a
Alias: None
Label: esx3-1
CHAP secret: None

Host Group: emrdbcluster
Host: emrdatabase1
Host type: Windows
Interface type: iSCSI
Initiator: iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:emrdatabase1.rapa.local
Alias: None
Label: emrdb1
CHAP secret: None

Host: emrdatabase2
Host type: Windows
Interface type: iSCSI
Initiator: iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:emrdatabase2.rapa.local
Alias: None
Label: emrdb2
CHAP secret: None

NVSRAM HOST TYPE DEFINITIONS

NOTE: The following indexes are not used: 3 - 31

HOST TYPE AVT STATUS ASSOCIATED INDEX
Linux Disabled 1
VMWARE Disabled 2
Windows Disabled 0 (Default)

CONTROLLERS------------------------------
Number of RAID controller modules: 2

RAID Controller Module in Enclosure 0, Slot 0

Status: Online

Current configuration
Firmware version: 07.70.06.63
Appware version: 07.70.06.63
Bootware version: 07.70.06.63
NVSRAM version: N26X0-770890-005
Pending configuration
Firmware version: None
Appware version: None
Bootware version: None
NVSRAM version: None
Transferred on: None
Model name: 2650
Board ID: 2660
Submodel ID: 143
Product ID: MD32xxi
Revision: 0770
Replacement part number: A00
Part number: 0770D8
Serial number: 0CH006W
Vendor: DELL
Date of manufacture: December 23, 2010
Trunking supported: No

Data Cache
Total present: 1744 MB
Total used: 1744 MB
Processor cache:
Total present: 304 MB
Cache Backup Device
Status: Optimal
Type: SD flash physical disk
Location: RAID Controller Module 0, Connector USB 1
Capacity: 7,639 MB
Product ID: Not Available
Part number: Not Available
Serial number: 00000e0c
Revision level: 10
Manufacturer: Lexar
Date of manufacture: October 1, 2010
Host Interface Board
Status: Optimal
Location: Slot 1
Type: iSCSI
Number of ports: 4
Board ID: 0501
Replacement part number: PN 0770D8A00
Part number: PN 0770D8
Serial number: SN 0CH006W
Vendor: VN 13740
Date of manufacture: Not available
Date/Time: Tue Apr 19 09:44:35 CDT 2011

Associated Virtual Disks (* = Preferred Owner):
1*, 3*

RAID Controller Module DNS/Network name: FY0JXP1
Remote login: Disabled

Ethernet port: 1
Link status: Up
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:04:a3:a2
Negotiation mode: Auto-negotiate
Port speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.1.187
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.250

Physical Disk interface: SAS
Channel: 1
Port: Out
Status: Up
Maximum data rate: 6 Gbps
Current data rate: 6 Gbps

Physical Disk interface: SAS
Channel: 2
Port: Out
Status: Up
Maximum data rate: 6 Gbps
Current data rate: 6 Gbps

Host interface: iSCSI
Channel: 1
Port: 0
Link status: Connected
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:04:a3:a3
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Configured port speed: 1000 Mbps
Current port speed: 1000 Mbps
Maximum port speed: 1000 Mbps
iSCSI RAID controller module
Vendor: ServerEngines Corporation
Part number: ServerEngines SE-BE4210-S01
Serial number: 782bcb04a3a3
Firmware revision: 2.300.310.14
TCP listening port: 3260
Maximum transmission unit: 9000 bytes/frame
ICMP PING responses: Enabled
IPv4: Enabled
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.130.101
Configuration status: Configured
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
IPv6: Disabled
Auto-configuration: Enabled
Local IP address: fe80:0:0:0:7a2b:cbff:fe04:a3a3
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 1: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 2: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Router IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
Hop limit: 64
Neighbor discovery
Reachable time: 30000 ms
Retransmit time: 1000 ms
Stale timeout: 30000 ms
Duplicate address detection transmit count: 1

Host interface: iSCSI
Channel: 2
Port: 1
Link status: Connected
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:04:a3:a4
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Configured port speed: 1000 Mbps
Current port speed: 1000 Mbps
Maximum port speed: 1000 Mbps
iSCSI RAID controller module
Vendor: ServerEngines Corporation
Part number: ServerEngines SE-BE4210-S01
Serial number: 782bcb04a3a3
Firmware revision: 2.300.310.14
TCP listening port: 3260
Maximum transmission unit: 9000 bytes/frame
ICMP PING responses: Enabled
IPv4: Enabled
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.131.101
Configuration status: Configured
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
IPv6: Disabled
Auto-configuration: Enabled
Local IP address: fe80:0:0:0:7a2b:cbff:fe04:a3a4
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 1: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 2: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Router IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
Hop limit: 64
Neighbor discovery
Reachable time: 30000 ms
Retransmit time: 1000 ms
Stale timeout: 30000 ms
Duplicate address detection transmit count: 1

Host interface: iSCSI
Channel: 3
Port: 2
Link status: Connected
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:04:a3:a5
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Configured port speed: 1000 Mbps
Current port speed: 1000 Mbps
Maximum port speed: 1000 Mbps
iSCSI RAID controller module
Vendor: ServerEngines Corporation
Part number: ServerEngines SE-BE4210-S01
Serial number: 782bcb04a3a3
Firmware revision: 2.300.310.14
TCP listening port: 3260
Maximum transmission unit: 9000 bytes/frame
ICMP PING responses: Enabled
IPv4: Enabled
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.132.101
Configuration status: Configured
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
IPv6: Disabled
Auto-configuration: Enabled
Local IP address: fe80:0:0:0:7a2b:cbff:fe04:a3a5
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 1: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 2: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Router IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
Hop limit: 64
Neighbor discovery
Reachable time: 30000 ms
Retransmit time: 1000 ms
Stale timeout: 30000 ms
Duplicate address detection transmit count: 1

Host interface: iSCSI
Channel: 4
Port: 3
Link status: Connected
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:04:a3:a6
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Configured port speed: 1000 Mbps
Current port speed: 1000 Mbps
Maximum port speed: 1000 Mbps
iSCSI RAID controller module
Vendor: ServerEngines Corporation
Part number: ServerEngines SE-BE4210-S01
Serial number: 782bcb04a3a3
Firmware revision: 2.300.310.14
TCP listening port: 3260
Maximum transmission unit: 9000 bytes/frame
ICMP PING responses: Enabled
IPv4: Enabled
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.133.101
Configuration status: Configured
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
IPv6: Disabled
Auto-configuration: Enabled
Local IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 1: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 2: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Router IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
Hop limit: 64
Neighbor discovery
Reachable time: 30000 ms
Retransmit time: 1000 ms
Stale timeout: 30000 ms
Duplicate address detection transmit count: 1

RAID Controller Module in Enclosure 0, Slot 1

Status: Online

Current configuration
Firmware version: 07.70.06.63
Appware version: 07.70.06.63
Bootware version: 07.70.06.63
NVSRAM version: N26X0-770890-005
Pending configuration
Firmware version: None
Appware version: None
Bootware version: None
NVSRAM version: None
Transferred on: None
Model name: 2650
Board ID: 2660
Submodel ID: 143
Product ID: MD32xxi
Revision: 0770
Replacement part number: A00
Part number: 0770D8
Serial number: 0CB00AI
Vendor: DELL
Date of manufacture: December 22, 2010
Trunking supported: No

Data Cache
Total present: 1744 MB
Total used: 1744 MB
Processor cache:
Total present: 304 MB
Cache Backup Device
Status: Optimal
Type: SD flash physical disk
Location: RAID Controller Module 1, Connector USB 1
Capacity: 7,639 MB
Product ID: Not Available
Part number: Not Available
Serial number: 000002fe
Revision level: 10
Manufacturer: Lexar
Date of manufacture: September 1, 2010
Host Interface Board
Status: Optimal
Location: Slot 1
Type: iSCSI
Number of ports: 4
Board ID: 0501
Replacement part number: PN 0770D8A00
Part number: PN 0770D8
Serial number: SN 0CB00AI
Vendor: VN 13740
Date of manufacture: Not available
Date/Time: Tue Apr 19 09:43:25 CDT 2011

Associated Virtual Disks (* = Preferred Owner):
2*, 4*

RAID Controller Module DNS/Network name: FY0JXP1
Remote login: Disabled

Ethernet port: 1
Link status: Up
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:05:96:86
Negotiation mode: Auto-negotiate
Port speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.1.186
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.250

Physical Disk interface: SAS
Channel: 1
Port: Out
Status: Up
Maximum data rate: 6 Gbps
Current data rate: 6 Gbps

Physical Disk interface: SAS
Channel: 2
Port: Out
Status: Up
Maximum data rate: 6 Gbps
Current data rate: 6 Gbps

Host interface: iSCSI
Channel: 1
Port: 0
Link status: Connected
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:05:96:87
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Configured port speed: 1000 Mbps
Current port speed: 1000 Mbps
Maximum port speed: 1000 Mbps
iSCSI RAID controller module
Vendor: ServerEngines Corporation
Part number: ServerEngines SE-BE4210-S01
Serial number: 782bcb059687
Firmware revision: 2.300.310.14
TCP listening port: 3260
Maximum transmission unit: 9000 bytes/frame
ICMP PING responses: Enabled
IPv4: Enabled
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.130.102
Configuration status: Configured
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
IPv6: Disabled
Auto-configuration: Enabled
Local IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 1: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 2: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Router IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
Hop limit: 64
Neighbor discovery
Reachable time: 30000 ms
Retransmit time: 1000 ms
Stale timeout: 30000 ms
Duplicate address detection transmit count: 1

Host interface: iSCSI
Channel: 2
Port: 1
Link status: Connected
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:05:96:88
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Configured port speed: 1000 Mbps
Current port speed: 1000 Mbps
Maximum port speed: 1000 Mbps
iSCSI RAID controller module
Vendor: ServerEngines Corporation
Part number: ServerEngines SE-BE4210-S01
Serial number: 782bcb059687
Firmware revision: 2.300.310.14
TCP listening port: 3260
Maximum transmission unit: 9000 bytes/frame
ICMP PING responses: Enabled
IPv4: Enabled
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.131.102
Configuration status: Configured
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
IPv6: Disabled
Auto-configuration: Enabled
Local IP address: fe80:0:0:0:7a2b:cbff:fe05:9688
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 1: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 2: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Router IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
Hop limit: 64
Neighbor discovery
Reachable time: 30000 ms
Retransmit time: 1000 ms
Stale timeout: 30000 ms
Duplicate address detection transmit count: 1

Host interface: iSCSI
Channel: 3
Port: 2
Link status: Connected
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:05:96:89
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Configured port speed: 1000 Mbps
Current port speed: 1000 Mbps
Maximum port speed: 1000 Mbps
iSCSI RAID controller module
Vendor: ServerEngines Corporation
Part number: ServerEngines SE-BE4210-S01
Serial number: 782bcb059687
Firmware revision: 2.300.310.14
TCP listening port: 3260
Maximum transmission unit: 9000 bytes/frame
ICMP PING responses: Enabled
IPv4: Enabled
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.132.102
Configuration status: Configured
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
IPv6: Disabled
Auto-configuration: Enabled
Local IP address: fe80:0:0:0:7a2b:cbff:fe05:9689
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 1: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 2: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Router IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
Hop limit: 64
Neighbor discovery
Reachable time: 30000 ms
Retransmit time: 1000 ms
Stale timeout: 30000 ms
Duplicate address detection transmit count: 1

Host interface: iSCSI
Channel: 4
Port: 3
Link status: Connected
MAC address: 78:2b:cb:05:96:8a
Duplex mode: Full duplex
Configured port speed: 1000 Mbps
Current port speed: 1000 Mbps
Maximum port speed: 1000 Mbps
iSCSI RAID controller module
Vendor: ServerEngines Corporation
Part number: ServerEngines SE-BE4210-S01
Serial number: 782bcb059687
Firmware revision: 2.300.310.14
TCP listening port: 3260
Maximum transmission unit: 9000 bytes/frame
ICMP PING responses: Enabled
IPv4: Enabled
Network configuration: Static
IP address: 192.168.133.102
Configuration status: Configured
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
IPv6: Disabled
Auto-configuration: Enabled
Local IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 1: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Routable IP address 2: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Configuration status: Unconfigured
Router IP address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Ethernet priority: Disabled
Priority: 0
Virtual LAN (VLAN): Disabled
VLAN ID: 0
Hop limit: 64
Neighbor discovery
Reachable time: 30000 ms
Retransmit time: 1000 ms
Stale timeout: 30000 ms
Duplicate address detection transmit count: 1

It is then important to make a note of the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator names from the two Windows 2008 servers, and ONLY allocate these iSCSI Initiator names to have access to the LUNs.

Host:
emrdatabase1
Host type: Windows
Interface type: iSCSI
Initiator: iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:emrdatabase1.rapa.local
Alias:None
Label: emrdb1
CHAP secret: None
Associated host group:emrdbcluster
Associated host:emrdatabase1

Host: emrdatabase2
Host type: Windows
Interface type: iSCSI
Initiator: iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:emrdatabase2.rapa.local
Alias: None
Label: emrdb2
CHAP secret: None
Associated host group: emrdbcluster
Associated host: emrdatabase2

Usually you map these initiators to the LUN. Make sure that the ESX hosts do not also connect to these LUNs.

I do not see them within my VM Client Server

In the Microsoft iSCSI initiator on the Windows 2008 server, you must specifiy the SAN IP address or addresses?

Which IP Address would this be?

How does everything look so far?

Thanks,

nimdatx

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Lot of information here, let me have a look through it.

I've had a quick look, let me have a further look.

IP address of the SAN (MD3200i)

Jaime Campos

ASKER

You say my IP address of my SAN, so this is what I think you mean?

My iSCSI Host ports:
Raid Controller Module 0, Port 0 = 192.168.130.101 – 255.255.255.0 – No DG
Raid Controller Module 0, Port 1 = 192.168.131.101 – 255.255.255.0 – No DG
Raid Controller Module 0, Port 2 = 192.168.132.101 – 255.255.255.0 – No DG
Raid Controller Module 0, Port 3 = 192.168.133.101 – 255.255.255.0 – No DG
Raid Controller Module 1, Port 0 = 192.168.130.102 – 255.255.255.0 – No DG
Raid Controller Module 1, Port 1 = 192.168.130.102 – 255.255.255.0 – No DG
Raid Controller Module 1, Port 2 = 192.168.130.102 – 255.255.255.0 – No DG
Raid Controller Module 1, Port 3 = 192.168.130.102 – 255.255.255.0 – No DG

Now, my two physical servers (Win2k8 Enterprise) that will be setup as a failover cluster are on the 1.0 subnet, so I enabled another physical NIC, plugged into my two dedicated SCSI switches and assigned a static IP address 192.168.130.50, 255.255.255.0, DG none on emrdatabase1 (server) and tested iSCSI initiator again.

I went to discovery tab and entered 192.168.130.101 (SAN) and I was able to see target Dell powervault md3200i. I then auto set volumes and devices. When I went to Disk management I saw 837.371 GB, RAID 10, EMRDATA. I did not see ESX LUN, which is good in my mind.

Is this the way to do it? I didn't want to proceed until I get your thoughts. Another thing....when I went to vSphere and looked at all me ESX servers networking properties (just to double check everything) I noticed that under two of my ESX server vSwitch properties - Network adapters, I see Opserved IP addresses: 192.168.130.50, which is the Static IP I assigned to the second nic on the physical server (Win2k8 Enterprise). Not sure why this happened, since I did nothing within ESX.

Thanks,

nimdatx

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Yes, that's good and working.

So you need to format that disk/volume with the correct filing system NTFS from that Windows host.

Only one Windows 2008 Server can see the actual disk at one time. This is normal, and how clustering works.

Connect the second Windows 2008 Server, and see if you can see the disk, now this will appear at present as the 837GB disk, but it will probably appear as Unknown/RAW format, and that's normal, until clustering is up and running.

So now you can complete the Microsoft Clustering Wizard and add the disk resource.

and then add the second node to the cluster, and then you should be able to add a Clustered File Share on the disk. and test failover.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

here's a Guide for File Server and File Sharing Cluster, if that what you are wanting to do

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844%28WS.10%29.aspx

Jaime Campos

ASKER

Thank so much.

What about the observed IP address range? What is that?

Can you help me understand how the HOST port communicate with VSpere, these physical servers and my LAN 1.0 subnet? That confuses me so much.

I can not believe I got this far with virtualization and now clustering. Thanks so much.

nimdatx

Jaime Campos

ASKER

What about the observed IP address range? What is that?

Can you help me understand how the HOST port communicate with VSpere, these physical servers and my LAN 1.0 subnet? That confuses me so much.

I can not believe I got this far with virtualization and now clustering. Thanks so much.

nimdatx