Are both controllers connected to both fabrics?From your description it doesn't sounds like it matters if you go over fabric A vs B, it's which controller creates the LUN that seems to make the difference here.The usual stuff to check is the active z...

Correct. You only want system VLANs on the VLANs that are needed to bootstrap the 1000v.The normal port-profiles that would be used with your VMs typically don't require a system VLAN.In fact, if you enable a system VLAN on an interface that is going...

Are there enough ports available on the array to attach each FI to the array directly?That would work for a small environment like this.

That error looks like you're trying to deploy the ova directly to one ESXi host instead of the vCenter that controls them all.You'll need to deploy it to the vCenter. You also need to verify that you have an enterprise plus license for vCenter, this ...

Can you get a screenshot of the error?