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Table of Contents

Executive summary ............................................................................................5

Introduction.........................................................................................................5

Audience ...................................................................................................................................... 5

CLARiiON terminology................................................................................................................. 5

VMware terminology .................................................................................................................... 5

ESX overview ......................................................................................................7

Features ....................................................................................................................................... 8

VMware VMotion ...................................................................................................................... 8

Distributed Resource Scheduling and VMware High Availability ............................................. 8

VMware fault tolerance............................................................................................................. 8

VMware clustering.................................................................................................................... 9

VMware N_Port ID Virtualization.............................................................................................. 9

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) .................................................................................. 9

EMC CLARiiON overview ................................................................................... 9

Why use CLARiiON with VMware ESX Server?..............................................11

CLARiiON configuration with VMware ............................................................11

Basic connectivity ...................................................................................................................... 11

Booting from a CLARiiON storage system ................................................................................ 13

Booting ESX 4.0, 3.x, and ESX 2.5.x from CLARiiON LUNs with ESX ................................. 13

Booting guest operating systems on CLARiiON LUNs .......................................................... 13

Navisphere management...........................................................................................................14

Multipathing and failover with ESX on CLARiiON...................................................................... 17

VMware native multipathing and failover on ESX 4.0 with CLARiiON ................................... 18

iSCSI configurations and multipathing with ESX 4.0 ............................................................. 20

Multipathing and failover on ESX 3.x and ESX 2.x with CLARiiON....................................... 21

LUN partitioning ......................................................................................................................... 24

Raw disks ............................................................................................................................... 25

VMFS volumes ....................................................................................................................... 25

Raw device mapping (RDM) .................................................................................................. 26

LUN layout recommendations.................................................................................................... 26

Using CLARiiON metaLUNs, LUN migration, and Virtual Provisioning technology with VMware

ESX 4.0/3.x/ESXi and 2.x .......................................................................................................... 27

Expanding and migrating LUNs used as raw device mapping............................................... 27

Expanding and migrating LUNs used as VMFS volumes ...................................................... 28

CLARiiON Virtual Provisioning with VMFS and RDM volumes.............................................. 30

Using CLARiiON replication software with VMware ESX 4.0/3.x/ESX ESXi and 2.5.x............. 31

CLARiiON replication considerations with VMware ESX Server ........................................... 32

CLARiiON replication software considerations when using VMFS volumes ......................... 32

CLARiiON replication software considerations when using RDM volumes ........................... 33

Using EMC Replication Manager with VMFS and RDM volumes.......................................... 33

CLARiiON and VMotion ....................................................................................34

VMotion with VMFS volumes..................................................................................................... 34

VMotion with RDM volumes....................................................................................................... 35

CLARiiON with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling and High

Availability.........................................................................................................37

EMC CLARiiON Integration with

VMware ESX Server

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