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VMHEAT report
I just uploaded a grab from one of our ESX hosts to VMHEAT site and saw the report.
I am not sure why but it did not have any information on what disks it had. It can see that it has data stores but nothing pertaining to where it is comming from.
When I select a data store it says. "Could be stale device (check inq for device information)"
When I navigate to INQ information it says "No symmetrix disks" and "No Clariion disks"
I know we have disks form IBM arrays here also which we plan to migrate. I want to get information on what disks is from what array.
Is there an alternative way of doing this from the host side?
dynamox
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March 30th, 2011 09:00
if you have access to vSphere, you can click on the ESX host, Configuration Tab, Storage and under View select Devices.
yaribhas
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March 30th, 2011 11:00
Yeah but that does not give me what disk is comming from what array.
I need the array info. Usually I use the INQ utility on the hosts to get this information. HEAT reports for all other hosts have this information also.
VMHEAT does too but for some reason it was not able to run that utility.
I can not trust the alias names we have on our frames. If I can get something from the host I know I can trust it.
Thanks,.
dynamox
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March 30th, 2011 11:00
if you suspect it's a problem with VMHEAT ..go ahead and open a ticket with support.
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March 31st, 2011 01:00
Hello,
I know you've probably already checked this, but have to ask anyway... perhaps the ESX host cannot see its devices at the moment? Can you see SCSI errors in the vmkernel or vmkwarning files?
Thank you,
Nollaig
yaribhas
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March 31st, 2011 09:00
Yeah the ESX has disk from all the array's we have. I know it is not best practice but that is the way it is.
Trying to migrate disk from 4 arrays over to 1 so it should get better.
I can see all the datastores from all the arrays in ESX, just the grab was unsuccessful in running INQ utility.
If I want to report it to EMC do I just raise an SR or is there any other way to do it?
Thanks.
yaribhas
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April 1st, 2011 12:00
The primus solutions I see are dated way back and not sure if they are still applicable like for example emc158459.
We are currently using 3.5 4
Thanks.
yaribhas
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April 1st, 2011 12:00
I found this in the log file of grab report.
Command : inq.linux -no_dots/vmfs/volumes/VMFS_1/EMC_Host_Grab/emcgrab/tools/inq.sh: line 1: ./inq.linux: cannot execute binary file
Command : inq.linux -no_dots -et/vmfs/volumes/VMFS_1/EMC_Host_Grab/emcgrab/tools/inq.sh: line 1: ./inq.linux: cannot execute binary file
Command : inq.linux -no_dots -btl/vmfs/volumes/VMFS_1/EMC_Host_Grab/emcgrab/tools/inq.sh: line 1: ./inq.linux: cannot execute binary file
Command : inq.linux -no_dots -compat/vmfs/volumes/VMFS_1/EMC_Host_Grab/emcgrab/tools/inq.sh: line 1: ./inq.linux: cannot execute binary file
Command : inq.linux -hba/vmfs/volumes/VMFS_1/EMC_Host_Grab/emcgrab/tools/inq.sh: line 1: ./inq.linux: cannot execute binary file
I think INQ utility is not supported in VMWare.
Can someone form EMC let me know if there is another version of INQ utility I can use.
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April 11th, 2011 04:00
Hi ,
You could take a look at the "Virtual Storage Integrator for vSphere."
The Virtual Storage Integrator for vSphere provides the user a view of the relationships between VMware virtual machines, disk files, datastores and underlying EMC storage devices including Symmetrix, CLARiiON and Celerra storage devices.
It can be downloaded from powerlink.emc.com under:
Home> Support> Software Downloads and Licensing> Downloads T-Z> Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) Pre-4.x
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