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ONTAP SAN VMware RDM Microsoft validation fails

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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
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