HP 3PAR VMware ESX Implementation Guide

Figure 29 iSCSI Software Initiator Configuration
NOTE: When multiple teamed NICs are configured, all HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage iSCSI ports
and ESX iSCSI NICs must be in the same VLAN of the IP switch.
NOTE: NIC teaming is not supported in ESXi 5.x
Installing Virtual Machine Guest Operating System
The VMware ESX documentation lists recommended virtual machine guest operating systems (GOS)
and their installation and setup as virtual machines. See the VMware ESX documentation for
information on setting up your virtual machine configuration at VMware.
CAUTION: In VMware KB 51306, VMware identifies a problem with RHEL 5 (GA), RHEL 4 U4,
RHEL 4 U3, SLES 10 (GA), and SLES 9 SP3 guest operating systems. Their file systems may become
read-only in the event of busy I/O retry or path failover of the ESX host’s SAN or iSCSI storage.
See KB 51306 on the VMware Knowledge Base website: VMware
HP does not recommend and does not support the use of RHEL 5 (GA), RHEL 4 U4, RHEL 4 U3,
SLES 10 (GA), and SLES 9 SP3 as guest operating systems for virtual machines on VMware ESX
hosts attached to HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems.
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