Fortunately, dell has just made hit kit version 5 which you can download directly from dell, here. Download the equallogic multipathing agent for vmware. Im using a physical windows 2008 r2 server as a veeam proxy, and my veeam backups are using direct san access. We just purchased a equallogic 6100 i was installing the hit virtual appliance for the vcenter plugin i see that it needs to have a network connection on the iscsi network in addition to the managment network. Steven then briefly covered the hit and talked about the vmware plugin for vcenter. We recently acquired a dell equallogic ps4100 with dual controllers and 24 x 600gb 10k sas hdds 22 in use, 2x spare. Equallogic reclaim free space enter the unmap command in esxi 6. This is connected via 2 x stacked dell n3024 switches to 2 x poweredge r620s running vmware esxi 5. When you create a volume the raid preference is set to auto you cant change. Provides detailed and updated information about the managed computer. The client in this case had a dell equallogic ps4100 san. Esxi 6 equallogic reclaim free space virtualization howto. Access to all the csv volumes where the vms being backedup reside.
Even though the equallogic hit kit had specified an exemption rule, this was. For customers who have virtualized windows running in vmware, will the hit utilities for windows and vmware get confused and conflict. Today i visited a customer to perform a health check. The appliance and the documentation are available from the equallogic. Installing equallogic mem with windows vsphere cli phy2vir. This video will guide you through the installation and configuration process to get you quickly up and. Introducing dell equallogic host integration tools for vmware. Equallogic hit kit and direct san access veeam community. Available for download microsoft windows vista, windows xp, windows 7 microsoft windows server 2003, windows server 2008, windows server 2008. Dells multipath extension module for equallogic now supports. Setup and install the equallogic multipathing agent for. From the equallogic web portal, rightclick volumes, and then select create volume. Migrated vms will obtain new virtual mac addresses on the red. The equallogic host integration tools for microsoft hitmicrosoft tightly integrate the equallogic ps series arrays with microsoft host operating platform and host applications.
Italianthe dell equallogic team has officially announced the release of host integration tools for microsoft hitmicrosoft v4. Would anyone happen to have the latest version of dell. Aug 19, 2011 the dell equallogic autosnapshot manager vmware edition tool provides tight integration between vmware vcenter and equallogic ps series snapshots to provide hypervisor consistent space. Dec 23, 2012 in step 3 connect to a volume on ps series san on page 32 of the configuring iscsi connectivity with vmware vsphere 5 and dell equallogic ps series storage it steps you through the process of changing the psp from the vmware default of fixed to round robin. Equallogic san basic initial iscsi setup virtualization. Save up to 38% on new poweredge server configurations here.
Their system consisted of vmware esxi hosts running on equallogic san storage. Dells multipath extension module for equallogic now. Dell equallogic autosnapshot managervmware edition sanbased data protection tools provide some relief. These rules are needed in order for the host integration tools to work properly. Better performance on builtin vmware satp psp with equallogic ps array. Totally agree with the 1x san argument however for a piece of kit with a 7 year lifecycle i have 4x sans and zero outright failure in 5 years yes disks have gone pop and two controllers total died. Congratulations, you have successfully added a dell equallogic ps series array san to system center virtual machine manager 2012 sp1 as a smp provider. We dont have active support contract, the equallogic warranty expired four years ago. To do this, install asmme on the guest and go direct via iscsi. Unfortunately i started rebuilding our hosts with server 2012 r2 before i realized our support contract has expired and i cant access the download.
Jun 04, 2015 noticed equallogic released a few important updates over the last two days for vmware compatibility. Where can i find vasa provider for equalogik ps series for vmware 66. The setup of the equallogic requires that you have a console cable to connect to your equallogic san. Veeam offhost backup proxy with dell equallogic phy2vir. Available for download microsoft windows vista, windows xp, windows 7 microsoft windows server 2003, windows server 2008, windows server 2008 r2. Equallogic provides hit utilities for both windows and vmware.
Dell equallogic ps6000e missing downloads, software. The equallogic hit kit should already be installed on the hyperv hosts to ensure proper operation. Aug 18, 2016 the equallogic mem kit driver is a great third party driver for extending and enhancing the multipathing functionality within vmware. Noticed equallogic released a few important updates over the last two days for vmware compatibility. X from extract the contents of the zip file to a folder on your computer. Equallogic san basic initial iscsi setup virtualization howto.
Equallogic reclaim space from vmware esxi datastore. Read the first blog post here about dell mem and esxi 5. The equallogic host integration tools include several easytouse hostbased tools that tightly integrate equallogic san with hosts and applications, delivering advanced data protection, high availability and performance and simplified management of application data and virtual machines for microsoft, vmware and linux environments. Kvm, xen, and vmware vspherebased vms running red hat enterprise linux 4, 5, and 6. Equallogic with vmware modify esx iscsi satp youtube. For example cpu type and speed, ram and hard drive capacity, programs installed and software versions, and more.
Equallogic host software this family of hostbased tools provides an easytouse interface for extending the functionality of the equallogic array software, enabling cooperation with the host. Autosnapshot managervmware edition asmve is a unique and innovative data protection feature of the dell equallogic ps series iscsi san that enables fast online backups and quick restores of vmware virtual machines and vmfs file systems. Dell equallogic ps6210s enterprise flash array searchstorage. Download dells equallogic mem from the equallogic support website. If you have a dell equallogic disk storage array and you want to connect it to server 2016, you will want the host integration tools hit kit. Dell equallogic autosnapshot managervmware edition source. Our gss folks just released kb article 2049103 which details a vmfs heartbeat and lock corruption issue that manifests itself on dell equallogic storage arrays when running ps series firmware v6.
I have an esxi host configured with a software iscsi initiator, configured as per vmware best practices regarding vmkernel port groups with appropriately configured activeunused uplinks i use two. However, if you have your alerting setup correctly either in group manager or san hq, you should start getting caution. We are doing upgrade of operacional system windows 2012 to windows 2016, need this hit kit to windows to connect with equallogic. Hello there rhomelab, hope youve been doing well tl. Once the san is powered on you should start to see the unit posting through until you get to the initial setup wizard. May 14, 2010 better performance on builtin vmware satp psp with equallogic ps array.
Install equallogic multipath extension module mem in vmware. Once the disk image was completed, we set it up as an nfs share and mounted the clients. The volumes on the equallogic were thin provisioned and one of them were running almost full plus a good way beyond the warning limit. The client was able to pull most of their vmware esxi virtual machines off of the san. Does anyone have or have access to the latest firmware, drivers, software, and manual for a dell equallogic ps6000e that they would be willing to download share forwith me. On my test equallogic i have the following configuration. Dell offers host integration tools for vmware hitvmware that helps enhance the. Aug 19, 2011 dell provides a vmware vcenter integration plugin for the dell equallogic ps series san. This includes firmware upgrades from version 4 to 5 to 6 to 7.
I guess i should try to explain what a mem is before going any further. Tuning vmware vsphere esxi for an equallogic iscsi san. This suite of tools is part of the all inclusive license free software bundles available with the purchase. For customer service support or questions please email us at equallogic customer service certified channel partner help desk to learn more about the partnerdirect program and how we can assist our partners be more successful with equallogic solutions please contact the resources in your area. Customer service for customer service support or questions please email us at equallogic customer service certified channel partner help desk. Refer to vmwares vsphere management assistant guide for details. I have 4 nics on this server connected to my iscsi network. Dell provides a vmware vcenter integration plugin for the dell equallogic ps series san. Aug 26, 2011 dell provides a vmware vcenter integration plugin for the dell equallogic ps series san. Equallogic storage systems support storageprocessor failover that is transparent to iscsi. Put the host, you will install the mem on, in maintenance mode. Unpack the zip archive, and upload to the vma the setup.
Reclaim unused disk space for eql volume article to reclaim space on a thin provisioned equallogic. Performance scalability the equallogic products outperform any of the other sans we have baked off. Nov 28, 2011 dell recently released their new multipath extension module mem for the equallogic ps series of storage array. The equallogic host integration tools hit includes several hostbased tools that tightly integrate equallogic storage area networks sans with hosts and applications, delivering advanced data protection, high availability and performance, and simplified management of application data and virtual machines for microsoft, vmware and linux. By offloading the snapshotting operations from the host servers, snapshots can be efficiently created and stored without using server resources. Equallogic volume shadow copy service vss and virtual disk service vds provider services.
If you chose to install equallogic mpio, the installer automatically configures the windows mpio service. At the end of the steps is this key note highlighted in bold. Would anyone happen to have the latest version of dell equallogic host integration tools for windows. All ps series technical reports are available on the customer support site at. The installer automatically adds necessary rules to configure the windows firewall. Download, install, and configure the vmware management agent vma, read about how to do that here. I need dell equallogic host integration tools for microsoft. My datastores are on an equallogic ps6100 iscsi san. Equallogic, iscsi and vmware infrastructure 3 cost effectiveness if you are looking for a fullfeatured, enterprise san without the high cost, take a look at equallogic. Vmware implements a pluggable storage architecture psa model in the vmkernel. As you can see the usage is exceeding the warning limit a lot.
The dell equallogic ps6210s is a flash array that uses a virtualized and. Verify that the latest hit kit for linux is being used for installation. Configuring and installing the equallogic multipathing. Equallogic storage systems impose a maximum limit of 1024 iscsi connections per storage pool. Multiple iscsi hbas or nics can connect to the same target or lun on the storage side. Equallogic provides a multipathing extension module that can be installed on esxi to provide additional capabilities. Vendor document title vmware iscsi san configuration guide. Nov 12, 2014 equallogic ps4100 vmkernel setup with vmware esxi 5.
Dell equallogic host integration tools for microsoft v4. Supported equallogic arrays host integration tools support arrays under the equallogic ps series brand software delivery hitmicrosoft is delivered as a single package and is available for download from the equallogic support site. Click here to download if you are an equallogic customer with a valid support contract. I dont think you can ask much more in terms of reliability from a piece of kit. The unmap command is a handy tool that vmware administrators need to have in their short list of housekeeping procedures especially if you are thin provisioning vms and deletingcreating vms often as blocks will not be returned to the equallogic san. Apr 15, 2014 i have a question regarding our recently acquired dell equallogic and vmware 5. I have a question regarding our recently acquired dell equallogic and vmware 5. Solved equallogic ps6000e and hyperv 2012 r2 spiceworks. Beyond that, the equallogic hit meshes with microsoft environments and key. Dell recently released their new multipath extension module mem for the equallogic ps series of storage array. Hopefully this post on how to install equallogic multipath extension module mem in vmware esxi shows how easily the driver can be installed.
There is no impact on the iscsi connection by configuring it this way. Technical support for technical support cases please login to techdirect or call 18009453355 us only. Equallogic manual transfer utility is designed for equallogic stora ge array groups. Jun, 2014 totally agree with the 1x san argument however for a piece of kit with a 7 year lifecycle i have 4x sans and zero outright failure in 5 years yes disks have gone pop and two controllers total died. Available for download as part of hit kit for microsoft. Ensure you have vmware vsphere cli installed on the computer. The equallogic hit manual for windows assumed that windows is running on physical server. In my next article in this series, we will show you how to assign vmm managed pools, and created logical units in the pools. Download and install vmware vsphere management assistant. For information about the custom multipathing configuration packages, contact dell equallogic. The equallogic hit kit and autosnapshot manager installed. Equallogic ps series iscsi arrays such as the px6210xs can also be combined. Optimize virtualization deployments with dell equallogic.
Optionally, install vmware update manager, which can be used to install the mem in the event that the setup. A vmfs datastore has a region designated for heartbeat types of operations to ensure that distributed access to the volume occurs safely. Installing the equallogic host integration tools hit on the backup proxy. Import public key download the public key from eql support site under hit for linux, and place in tmp add key. After a while, the equallogic volume started alerting that it was over the threshold of free space, however, within vmware the free space was fine. Support equallogic is simplifying networked storage. Take your iscsi initiator address and give it access to the volume on the san where your vm resides. V2v migration to red hat enterprise virtualization on the dell. Nov 25, 2015 the setup of the equallogic requires that you have a console cable to connect to your equallogic san. Click targets tab, logon to the volume set as persistent open up computer manager.
Enable arp redirection for esxi hardware iscsi hbas. Configuring round robin psp when using dell equallogic storage. Last week i decided id install the equallogic hit kit on this server. Policy advertisers business partners media kit corporate site.
Dell equallogic autosnapshot manager vmware edition. Dell equallogic ps series san utilizing native multipathing from vmware. Equallogic has provided good documentation together with the appliance ovf download. Download the dell equallogic multipathing extension module for vmware vsphere vx. Dell storage software is nontransferable, and you must use your customers login credentials to perform downloads on their behalf. Installing and configuring the dell equallogic host. Enterprise linux, oracle linux and solaris, aix, hpux, mac osx. Example installation steps each environment will be different but the following is a list of example installation steps to. The dell equallogic autosnapshot manager vmware edition tool provides tight integration between vmware vcenter and equallogic ps series snapshots to provide hypervisor consistent space. The storage array closely integrates with common applications, including vmware, sql and. No special setup is needed because equallogic storage systems support storageprocessor failover that is transparent to iscsi. We use iscsi on other vms also with this binding configuration to use iscsi on the vm itself. Double click iscsi initiator, add the group address for your equallogic san.
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