Oracle FS1-2 Flash Storage System
 

PLA-Support>Sun Systems>DISK>Flash Storage>SN-EStor: FSx
 

In this Document

Goal

Solution

VSphere 6.x and 5.x

VSphere 4.x

References

Created from <SR 3-10932350031>

Applies to:

Goal

This document will address how to configure multipathing for VMware Vsphere 6.x/5.x/4.x to work with the FS1-2 that supports Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA).

Solution

This document assumes the user is familiar with the esxcli commands that are required to make ESX configuration changes to support ALUA with the FS1-2, please refer to the VMware esxcli documentation for more information on how to use esxcli.

VSphere 6.x and 5.x

1. To list the SATPs that are currently loaded into the NMP system and displays information about those SATPs:
   
   % esxcli --server=<ip esx host> storage nmp satp list
    
2. To display the SATP rules run the following command:
   
   % esxcli --server=<ip esx host> storage nmp satp rule list
    
3. After executing the command in Step 2.  Check to see if there is a rule that already exists for the Oracle FS1-2 storage array.  If not, then add a new rule by executing the following command:
   
   % esxcli --server <ip esx host> storage nmp satp rule add --vendor="Oracle" --model="Oracle FS1-2" --claim-option="tpgs_on" --satp="VMW_SATP_ALUA" --description="Oracle FS System ALUA Support"
    
4. Set the default path policy to round robin for the new SATP rule:
   
   % esxcli --server <ip esx host> storage nmp satp set --default-psp="VMW_PSP_RR" --satp="VMW_SATP_ALUA"
    
5. After adding the new rule verify the new rule has been set:
   
   % esxcli --server=<ip esx host> storage nmp satp rule list
   
   
   NOTE: After adding a new satp rule you need to reboot the ESX host for the changes to take into effect.
    

VSphere 4.x

1. To list the SATPs that are currently loaded into the NMP system and displays information about those SATPs:
   
   % esxcli --server=<ip esx host> nmp satp list
    
2. To display the SATP rules run the following command:
   
   % esxcli --server=<ip esx host> nmp satp listrules
    
3. After executing the command in Step 2.  Check to see if there is a rule that already exists for the Oracle FS1-2 storage array.  If not, then add a new rule by executing the following command:
   
   % esxcli --server=<ip esx host> nmp satp addrule --vendor="Oracle" --model="Oracle FS1-2" --claim-option="tpgs_on" --satp="VMW_SATP_ALUA" --description="Oracle FS System ALUA Support"
    
4. Set the default path policy to round robin for the new SATP rule:
   
   % esxcli --server=<ip esx host> nmp satp setdefaultpsp --psp="VMW_PSP_RR" --satp="VMW_SATP_ALUA"
   
   
   NOTE: No reboot of the ESX server is necessary for the above command.
     
    

References

This solution has no attachment