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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices
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By default, vSphere 4.x claims all HBAs installed in the system, as shown in the vSphere Client view presented in Figure E-1.
Figure E-1. Storage Adapters view, available under the Configuration tab of vSphere Client
This appendix shows how to assign HBA3 to VM2 in vSphere 4.x.
EVA configuration
This example uses four ports on an EVA8100 array (Ports 1 and 2 on each controller). A single EVA disk group was created.
The EVA configuration is summarized in Table E-2.
Table E-2. EVA array configuration summary
Component
Description
EVA disk group
Default disk group, with 13 physical disks
Vdisks
\VMDirectPath\ESX-VMFS-LUN1: 50GB
ESX LUN 1
Path A Failover/Failback
\VMDirectPath\ESX-VMFS-LUN1: 50GB
ESX LUN 2
Path B Failover/Failback
\VMDirectPath\ESX-VM-RDM-Win2k8: 40GB
ESX LUN 3
WIN VM:
disk1 (RDM)
Path A Failover/Failback
\VM-DirectLUNs\Win2k8-VM-dLUN1: 30GB
WIN LUN1
Path A Failover/Failback
\VM-DirectLUNs\Win2k8-VM-dLUN2: 30GB
WIN LUN2
Path B Failover/Failback
Vdisk
presentation
vSphere server
HBA1
Port 1: 5006-0B00-0063-A7B4
Port 2: 5006-0B00-0063-A7B6
Vdisks
\VMDirectPath\ESX-VMFS-LUN1: 50GB
\VMDirectPath\ESX-VMFS-LUN1: 50GB
\VMDirectPath\ESX-VM-RDM-Win2k8: 40GB
\VMDirectPath\ESX-VM-RDM-RHEL5: 40GB