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Itegral
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10 years ago

VMware backup over SAN: Appliance to ESX zoning

Guys, I have a Solaris based Master server and 5 x 5220 Appliances (media). I am interested to configure VMware backup over SAN. I need confirmation on whether zoning between Appliance (media s...
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  • Itegral's avatar
    Itegral
    10 years ago

    I am closing the discussion with the following comments.

    We carried out some tests, and it emrged that zoning between backup host to ESX host is required.

    Also, zoning the backup host to datastores (LUNs) was done in our case but backup host cannot access the datastore using the specified transport. This error is received from the VMware APIs, checking the FC connectivity with storage team confirmed that only one path was zoned between backup host and specified LUN.

    After the successful backup, we removed the zoning between backup host to ESX host, it failed. So we established the zoning between backup host to ESX host again, it again worked.

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chashock
Level 6
10 years ago

Correct, you don't zone the ESX hosts to the appliance, you zone the appliance to the datastore LUNs.  In other words the appliance HBA is an initiator in the same zone as the target storage where the ESX datastores reside.

Another way to put it is to make the appliance look like your ESX hosts in your zone sets.