SAN

MetaLun EMC SAN and ESX 4 (vSphere)

Posted by admin on 08/12/2009 at 1:01 pm

 Expand the CLARiiON LUN on the ClaRiiON  storage system to the desired LUN size, issue a rescan at the ESX level. Sometimes you have to rescan again before your metalun will be shown.(I have to find out why) Your old disk will disappear from storage adapter view and the new metalun wil be shown.   [...]

Using a Qlogic QLE220 HBA with ESX 4

Posted by admin on 19/11/2009 at 3:34 pm

After installing ESX4, we see that the HBA is not recognized. Put the server in maintenance mode. To get it working you have to modify your qla2xxx.xml file. So login to your ESX4 server using putty and change to /etc/vmware/pciid the mentioned file will be there. copy this part <device id=”5432″>   <vmware label=”fc”>     [...]