I'd like to get rid of FC luns in my environment and we currently moving to a new netapp storage system on CDOT (8.2.1), just wondering if anyone can help or advise on the best way.
Currently we use snapdrive/SMSQL combo for taking snapshots of luns but with the new namespace feature with CDOT and NFS I tried the following..............
NFS Mounted into esx 5.5, I added the following datastores mounted in the root of the namespace.
NFS_Datastore_SQLDATA
NFS_Datastore_SQLLOGS
NFS_Datastore_SNAPINFO
For a test SQL server named SQLTEST1 with Snapdrive and SMSQL I created the following volumes and mounted into the namespace under the volumes above
NFS_Datastore_SQLDATA
------------------------------------ SQLTEST1_SQLDATA
NFS_Datastore_SQLLOGS
------------------------------------ SQLTEST1_SQLLOGS
NFS_Datastore_SNAPINFO
------------------------------------ SQLTEST1_SNAPINFO
In ESX I relocated VMDKS drives for SQLDATA,LOGS and SNAPINFO into their respective SQLTEST1_X folders, so now each VMDK was located on its own datastore.
Great so now snapdrive/SMSQL should talk to the storage and snap the distinct volumes where the VMDK's reside? Only it doesn't it simply snaps the volumes mounted at into ESX and doesn't follow the junctions in the namespace.
Does anyone out there know of anyway I can make this work? Is snapdrive still not aware of the namespace in CDOT and can't tell that it is in fact a distinct netapp volume under a junction.
This would be the neatest solution I can think of for getting rid of luns and still using snapdrive/SMSQL, does anyone know if this likely to ever work in future release?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can offer up any guidance\assistance.
