ONTAP SAN VMware RDM Microsoft validation fails
Applies to
- VMware
- ONTAP
- Microsoft Cluster
Issue
Microsoft cluster on VMware over two ESXi hosts with RDM fails validation report due to SCSI bus conflict
Example:
Microsoft Cluster Validation report :
successfully issued call to Persistent Reservation RESERVE for Test Disk 0
which is currently reserved by node abc.com This call is expected to fail.
Test Disk 0 does not provide Persistent Reservations support for the mechanisms used by failover clusters
ONTAP:
cluster1::*> lun persistent-reservation show -vserver vs_1 /vol/vol_1/lun_1
Key Protocol Type Initiator Name
----------------------- -------- ----------------- ----------------------------
APTPL: true
a0:00:00:00:00:00:00:01 iscsi write exclusive iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:fa752b8a5a3a
a0:00:00:00:00:00:00:01 iscsi - iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:fa752b8a5a3a
2 entries were displayed.