Dynamic workload movement with BladeSystem Matrix: Fluid movement between physical and virtual resources for flexibility and cost-effective recovery

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Logical servers can be made portable through techniques described earlier in this whitepaper.
However, only administrators and end-users can determine if the provisioned operating system within
a logical server truly performs as desired under a variety of platforms. If a logical server has never
been active on a platform type, ID-VSE will show a warning for each target of that type in the Target
Selection page during moves and activations. It will be up to the administrator to determine if the
target is valid or not.
Storage Definition
Storage can be defined via Storage Pool entries or Storage Entries tied directly to a logical server just
as with standard logical servers. Cross-technology logical servers require their storage to be SAN-
based. This approach uses the normal SAN-boot approach within Virtual Connect and leverages
ESX‟s Raw Disk Mapping (RDM) technology which presents boot and data LUNs directly to the virtual
machine.
When defining storage for a portable logical server, you must select “SAN Storage Entry”.
To allow flexibility and movement between underlying technology types, storage must be presented to
both the WWNs tied to the Virtual Connect server profile as well as to any ESX VM Hosts that are
potential targets for the logical server.