old fibre channel SAN
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I have a question regarding an old fibre channel SAN.
We have the HP MSA2200 SAN with a fibre channel switch.
And each Server has a Fibre channel adapter to the fibre swich.
Now we implement vsphere with iscsi.
But how I can connect the migrated VM´s to the fibre channel ?
And do I loose IO Performance ?
I have a question regarding an old fibre channel SAN.
We have the HP MSA2200 SAN with a fibre channel switch.
And each Server has a Fibre channel adapter to the fibre swich.
Now we implement vsphere with iscsi.
But how I can connect the migrated VM´s to the fibre channel ?
And do I loose IO Performance ?
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ok but how to connect my vm´s to the MSA ?
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We just implement vmware.
We just need a smal environment so we go for thre hosts and Essentials plus.
And therefore iscsi is the cheapest way to connect to out environment.
But how to connect to my fibre channel SAN ?
So that the vm´s can access the data after migration.
We just need a smal environment so we go for thre hosts and Essentials plus.
And therefore iscsi is the cheapest way to connect to out environment.
But how to connect to my fibre channel SAN ?
So that the vm´s can access the data after migration.
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ok can you explain how to connect the hosts or vm´s to the FC ?
I have checked the NPIV settings on my VM, but all is greyed out.
I have checked the NPIV settings on my VM, but all is greyed out.
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You give all the storage to your VM host. The host can see FC. Then the host presents LUNs from its available storage to the virtual machines themselves.
Hi SelfGovern, does it mean I need special HBA cards in the host ?
Now I just have 12 Nics in my hosts.
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Thanks for your help, now I know what to do in the future.
First I scan my network for one week what kind of IO we have.
Then I decide which way ISCSI 10Gbit or FC.
First I scan my network for one week what kind of IO we have.
Then I decide which way ISCSI 10Gbit or FC.
You have FC disk, that you can bridge into 10GBPS NFS if you want to put hardware to use
In year or two you may want to get rid of FC, and can copy VMDKs to better place, a bit harder with iSCSI, especially for concurrent access from multiple VM hosts etc.
In year or two you may want to get rid of FC, and can copy VMDKs to better place, a bit harder with iSCSI, especially for concurrent access from multiple VM hosts etc.
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And the servers have regular ethernet ports.
Now when I want to migrate a server to a vm or create a new vm, how to connect to the SAN ?
We use Vmware vSphere 5.5.