NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices

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Figure 6) NetApp LUN Wizard. The next step in the LUN Wizard is LUN masking, which is accomplished by assigning an igroup to a LUN. With the LUN Wizard, you can either assign an existing igroup or create a new igroup. Important: The ESX Server expects a LUN ID to be the same on every node in an ESX cluster. Therefore NetApp recommends creating a single igroup for each cluster rather than for each ESX Server. To configure LUN masking on a LUN created in the FilerView GUI, follow these steps. 1. Select Add Group. 2. 3a. 3b. 4. Select the Use Existing Initiator Group radio button. Click Next and proceed to step 3a. Or Select the Create a New Initiator Group radio button. Click Next and proceed to step 3b. Select the group from the list and either assign a LUN ID or leave the field blank (the system will assign an ID). Click Next to complete the task. Supply the igroup parameters, including name, connectivity type (FC or iSCSI), and OS type (VMware), and then click Next (see Figure 7). For the systems that will connect to this LUN, enter the new SAN identifiers or select the known identifiers (WWPN or IQN). 5. Click the Add Initiator button. 6. Click Next to complete the task. 16
Figure 7) Assigning an igroup to a LUN. 4.4 CONNECTING FC AND FCOE DATASTORES The Fibre Channel service is the only storage protocol that is running by default on the ESX Server. NetApp recommends that each ESX Server have two FC HBA ports available for storage path redundancy. To connect to FC LUNs provisioned on a FAS system, follow these steps. 1 Open vCenter Server. 2 Select an ESX host. 3 In the right pane, select the Configuration tab. 4 In the Hardware box, select the Storage Adapters link. 5 In the upper-right corner, select the Rescan link. 6 Repeat steps 1 through 5 for each ESX Server in the cluster. 17
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Page 5 and 6: 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NetApp® techno
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