If you’re troubleshooting issues with VMware Site
Recovery Manager 5.1 and your HP P6000 EVA’s, the following research items
might be of assistance.
Documents and websites used:
[4] HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array Compatibility Reference
December 2012.pdf
[5] HP P6000 EVA Storage Replication Adapter Software for
VMware vCenter SRM version 5.0.x & 5.1.pdf
[6] HP EVA Storage Replication Adapter Software version
5.01.00 for VMware vCenter SRM Release Notes.pdf
[7] HP EVA Storage Replication Adapter version 5.01.00 for
VMware vCenter SRM Administrator Guide.pdf
Note: If you
download the latest HP_SW_EVA_Virtualization_Adptr_5.1_Z7550-00892.zip
from VMware (this actually contains the HP_EVA_SRA_5.01.00,)
– [6] and [7] are contained in this zip.
From [2]:
VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes
We see that only vCenter 5.1 is supported with SRM 5.1,
but all ESX/ESXi versions from 4.0 to 5.1 are supported.
Image: VMware
vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 Support
From [3]:
VMware Compatibility Guide – Device=SAN
We see that the specific P6300 EVA models being
troubleshot in this instance all support ESXi 5.1.
Image: HP P6300 EVA
– ESX/ESXi Support Released
And furthermore from the VMware Compatibility Guide we
see the supported firmware versions with ESXi 5.1 for the HSV340 controllers
are 10000000, 10001000, 10100000, 11000000.
Image: HP P6300 FC
HSV340 – ESXi 5.1 Firmware Version Support
From [4]: HP
P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array Compatibility Reference December 2012
We see that VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 is only
supported with Command View versions 10.1 and 10.2.
Image: Command View
Support with HP EVA SVA for VMware SRM 5.1
From [5]: HP
P6000 EVA Storage Replication Adapter Software for VMware vCenter SRM version
5.0.x & 5.1
The following licenses must be installed on the local
(protected) and remote (recovery) HP EVA disk arrays:
·
HP EVA Continuous Access Software
·
HP EVA Business Copy Software (for full feature set of
SRM, for example, to create snapshots during test recovery operation from SRM)
From [7] HP EVA
Storage Replication Adapter version 5.01.00 for VMware vCenter SRM
Administrator Guide
If after checking the above all versions check out okay,
then the final task is to run through the Administrator Guide which includes
the following chapters:
2) Configuring SRM, HP EVA, and HP EVA SRA Software version
5.01.00
3) Installing and removing HP EVA SRA Software version 5.01.00
5) Collecting SRA logs
6) Troubleshooting HP EVA SRA Software version 5.01.00
Specific areas where you might see misconfiguration are
in the SRM zoning (see image below from p10)
Image: SRM zone
And – “The respective HP Command View EVA Servers located
at Protected and Recovery sites should actively manage the local site EVA arrays. Even if
the array management is changed across HP Command View EVA servers for DR
operations, HP strongly recommends that you bring the array management to the
original state (local HP Command View EVA Server actively managing the local
site EVA array) before doing any SRM operations.” (on p12)
And – “Enable array pair only in one direction” (on p20)
The Administrator Guide is a good 63 pages and if the
solution is not uncovered in there, then this is one for HP Support, VMware
Support, Fibre Channel/Ethernet Network Support…
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