HPE Storage Users Group

Hi.
Having a F400 system.
I have connected a vmwarecluster with 8 hosts and a Exchange 2007 CCR cluster.

I have problems with path in Windows enviroment.

In ESX hosts i see all 8 path to LUN. But in W2K8 i only see 4 path to LUN.
The zooning is exactly the same for ESX as Windows.
The persona for Win is 2 (customer runs Win2k8 NOT R2).

Why the h*** do we not see all 8 path to LUN?
And another thing is.
On the 2 Exc2007 nodes we see the disks from each other Exc2007 in diskman (we set the volumes offline in diskmanager.

We have 2 Exc2007 Nodes in 3Par and present 3 LUNS to each CCR node.
CCRNODE1=3 LUNS
CCRNODE2=3 LUNS
And in zooning the are separeted.......

Does anybody seen this
Im realy confused

/Bjorn

Persona 2 enables ALUA, I use Persona 1 for all my 2003/2008 servers and clusters. To be honest, I've never had the need for ALUA so I don't know a whole lot about it.

Make sure your Windows 2008 nodes have the MPIO role installed and configured for 3PAR.


If you can run these commands and post the output, please do:

showhost <exch server 1>
showhost <exch server 2>
showvlun -host <exch server 1>
showvlun -host <exch server 2>

question for 3PAR MPIO for ubuntu 12

I have ubuntu 12 server and need to hook up with a F400, is there any issue if i use the ubuntu native MPIO since there is no MPIO provide by 3PAR for ubuntu. Is there any concern on using the native MPIO?

Disclaimer: I am no linux expert.

While I believe it is possible for you to compile MPIO into your ubuntu... I believe the preferred method for multipathing in linux is "Device Mapper" and should already be part of the distro, no compiling required.

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/servergui ... p-overview

Richard is right - you should just need the bundled "multipathd" in Linux.

The command "multipath -l" should show you the device, and the devices it uses as the different paths.