Hi,
I have the following setup:
An FSA2020A (12 disks) with 2 nodes (Node A & Node B) connected with a DS14mk4 (14 disks) using FC runnig Data OnTap 7.3.2 and configured as active/active cluster.
- Node A using FSA2020A disks
- Node B using DS14mk4 disks
- Node A FC port 0a connected with blade center brocade switch 3
- Node B FC port 0a connected with blade center brocade switch 4
- Node A FC port 0b connected with DS14mk4
- Node B FC port 0b connected with DS14mk4
Blade center with 5 blades installed with VMware ESX 4 installed locally.
Configured LUNs on both nodes. Configured zones and igroups. Attached the configured LUNs to each respective blade. Installed virtual machines successfully.
From the above configuration and steps didn't encounter any problems but the big problem I'm facing is when i try to takeover one of the nodes to test redundancy. Basically what is happening is that when 1 of the nodes is down i cannot access the LUN that is configured on the 'failed' node from the blades that are attached to it. I can still access the Volumes and LUNs from the filer view or from the system manager but not from the ESX server.
What i'm noticing when all node are up is that from the vsphere client under storage tab there is olny 1 active connection to the LUN. I think that i should see a second passive connection to the LUN from the same HBA for multipathing.
Do you have any idea what can be wrong?
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks,
Dorian
