All posts in category Flex-10

Random ESXi LUN loss in an 8Gb FC Brocade infrastructure

Recently Dennis Agterberg, a fellow contractor, experienced some major issues with random LUN loss on all his ESXi Hosts. The environment consists of HP Virtual Connect FC modules connected to 8Gb Brocade switches. From a vCenter perspective repetitive “lost access to volume … due to connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in progress and outcome will […]

Testing Scenario's VMware / HP c-Class Infrastructure

Since my blog about Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere is quite a big hit (seeing the page views per day) I decided to also write about the testing scenario’s which should all be walked through before taking a design as this into production. In my blog I stated: Last word of advice: while implementing […]

Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere

I’ve written this blog as an add-on to Frank Denneman’s blog about Flex-10 which you can find over here. Goal of this blog is to get a clear vision about the Flex-10 port mappings that HP uses to facilitate their blades with NIC’s, with the special focus towards VMware ESX/vSphere. If you are looking for the HP FlexFabric mappings […]