03-18-2015 02:48 PM
We implemented 6 blades B200-M3, 2 FI 6248UP, SAN SW:brocade and EMC VNX 5200 storage
ESXi 5.5 free edition installed to the blades and installed VMs
when we tested the HA between 2 FI, the VMs were pingable but some VMs dropped 1 ping and other dropped 5 pings then worked correctly and suddenly dropped 10 pings then worked correctly again
Any one has a suggestion of that performance ?
03-18-2015 08:28 PM
Hi Amr,
How you are performing the HA test? you mean vNIC fabric failover or HA inside the VMware environment?
How your topology looks like?
Please, detail your question.
Richard
03-19-2015 04:17 AM
Hi Richbarb
thanks for your respond
we tested HA by reboot FI-A then reboot FI-B after FI-A worked with fully operational
we did not use the VMware HA test
the vNIC failover and vHBA happened automatically when we rebooted the FI
Also we tried to shut down FI-A and test the performance then opened FI-A till fully operational then repeat for FI-B the same procedure
the topology attached image
we did all the configuration in UCS, Core and Storage
FI SW mode , FC end host mode
Uplinks in FI to core
FC uplinks to brocade
server port to IOM
pools needed (server pools under root, WWNN,WWPN IPs, MAC)
vNICs and vHBAs on FIA and FIB (vNIC enable failover)
CIMC and KVM configuration
policies (default management monitoring policy, adapter policy default, try using SAN connectivity policy)
native vlan 900
zoning on Brocade
When we tested Fail over as mentioned in the above (by reboot FIs) we found that the VMs down for a period of time ( time of 1- 10 pings) so could you explain this problem ?
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