Hello,
I have a new installation of VMI3. I have 6 HP Blade systems, all identical, connected VIA FC to an EMC CX3. I have the esx server installed on all 6 blades. What I would like to do is create a large LUN on my SAN, say, 600 GB, and store my VM's on it. I have zoned the servers properly (at least, as far as I know) and created a Lun, and given it to all the ESX servers in navisphere.
This is where it gets tricky for me. From any esx server, I can add the LUN as a datastore,. If I create a datastore called Shared off of ESX1, I can create VM's on it, and it works fine. But if I use vmotion to migrate from one esx server to the other, it doesn't work, esx can't see the shared storage.
I think my problem is I don't know how to allow that Shared datastore to be seen by all of the esx servers, even though each server can see the LUN if I go to create a datastore from the particiular esx server.
Within the VI client, i go to datastores, and see my Shared datastore there, and it says number of connected hosts 1.
Does anyone know how i can allow all of my esx servers to share this Shared datastore?
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.