I am trying to virtualize several of our (W2K) server that are using a Stornext filessystem. Several VM's need to share the 4 LUNs for their 2TB Stornext X: driveletter.
This is the setup:
ESXi 4.1 on a Dell R710.
QLogic HBA (QLE2462)
MDS 9120 (NPIV enabled)
HP EVA 5000
Stornext 4.1.2
First VM with 4 RDM disks (NPIV enabled)
Second VM with 4 re-used disk with the above RDM (NPIV enabled)
I have succeeded in getting 1 VM to use the Stornext filesystem, but as soon as I start the second VM, I get an locking error.
Reason: Failed to lock the file.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4f755c4e-35026f64-c30b-bc305bd3fa63/Stornext Test/Stornext Test_1.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Anybody got any ideas how to avoid the locking, so that I can have the LUNs on more than 1 VM?
How can I be sure the LUN is mapped to the Virtual WWN?