How to mount the vSphere ESXi6.0 file storage standard

Introduction

Purpose of This Guide

This document is written for customers who have subscription of Enterprise Cloud 2.0 ( which will be called ECL2.0 hereinafter) and have some prior experience of using VMware vSphere products.rrThe following steps are assumed to be have been pre-configured before starting the configuration explained in this guide :


Preliminary Items Needed

Customers are required to have vSphere Client installed in their remote terminal ( vSphere Client is needed to control the operations on the ESXi servers except if customers have direct access to the ESXi console)
Customers are advised to refer to VMware’s vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client Software Requirements for further requirements for installation.
  • •Customers are advised to prepare a ECL2.0 network having access to Internet.

  • Inquire NetAppNasPlugin with a ticket and prepare the latest version.


Service Descriptions For Reference

Customers are advised to read the following service descriptions for reference:

  • File storage standard tutorial (VAAI plugin)

  • File storage service instruction manual

  • •Service Description: Dedicated Hypervisor vSphere ESXi

  • •Service Description:Dedicated Hypervisor Guest Image


At the Usage of This Guide

Customers are noted of the following information as they refer to this guide:
  • This section describes the procedure actually used for setup in Service Provider, as an example. The procedure does not necessarily assure that it works for the environment and configuration of a customer.

  • •This guide focuses on deployment procedure unique to vSphere ESXi configuration in ECL2.0. This guide will not cover general and overall deployment process of vSphere ESXi.

  • This guide does not cover general operations or instructions for customers to configure Logical Network , Managed UTM or virtual servers utilized in this guide. For general operations related to these product customers are advised to refer to Enterprise Cloud 2.0 service descriptions and other such tutorials available online.

  • •Customers are advised that any published details available in this guide can be changed, modified, or revised without prior notice.


Warning

The tutorial for file storage describes the mount method with ESXi alone. However, when a cluster configuration is to be made, file storage mount for each cluster is recommended rather than file storage mount for each host of ESXi.
If mount is performed for each host, data damage can occur when NFS Version difference happens.

Procedures of Configurations

This configuration includes the contents resulted from cluster configuration described in ‘vSphere HA/FT configuration guide’_.

How to install NetAppNasPlugin for each host

Use the procedure to install the plugin needed for use of VAAI, through the VMware ESXi server.

Prerequisite
This procedure assumes that the file storage standard has already been applied for and file storage mount on the ESXi server has been completed.

Binary acquisition of the VAAI plugin

For binary of this plugin, ask with the support ticket.
The download link is provided.
Fill in the support ticket as follows.

Category

Datacenter / Enterprise Cloud 2.0 Service Providermunications Support /General Inquiry

Type

Inquary

Content

File storage standard VAAI plugin provision request

Service menu

File Storage

Tebant ID

<Corresponding tenant ID>

Region

JP1/JP2

(For failure occurrence) Date when the problem occurred

No description

(For failure occurrence) Is the operation history present?

No description

(For failure occurrence) Is the problem currently occurring?

No description

Details

Provide the VAAI plugin.

Urgency

Low

Influence rate

Normal request

Attached file

None



Plugin installation on ESXi

Checking whether the VAAI of the ESXi server has been enabled.

When the VAAI has been enabled, the following two values are 1.
# esxcfg-advcfg -g /DataMover/HardwareAcceleratedMove
  Value of HardwareAcceleratedMove is 1
# esxcfg-advcfg -g /DataMover/HardwareAcceleratedInit
  Value of HardwareAcceleratedInit is 1

If the VAAI has been disabled, use the following command to enable it.
# esxcfg-advcfg -s 1 /DataMover/HardwareAcceleratedInit
 Value of HardwareAcceleratedInit is 1
# esxcfg-advcfg -s 1 /DataMover/HardwareAcceleratedMove
 Value of HardwareAcceleratedMove is 1

Installation of the VAAI plugin

1. Copying the acquired VAAI plugin to the ESXi host

Perform SCP transfer through SSH connections, or perform transfer through vSphereWebClient.

**2. Checking information on the VAAI plugin to be installed

# esxcli software sources vib list -d <上記手順1で保存したファイルパス>
Name             Version  Vendor  Creation Date  Acceptance Level  Status
---------------  -------  ------  -------------  ----------------  ------
NetAppNasPlugin  1.1.2-3  NetApp  2016-11-03     VMwareAccepted    New

3. Installation of the VAAI plugin

# esxcli software vib install -n NetAppNasPlugin -d <上記手順1で保存したファイルパス>
Installation Result
Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.
Reboot Required: true
VIBs Installed: NetApp_bootbank_NetAppNasPlugin_1.1.2-3
VIBs Removed:
VIBs Skipped:

4. Reboot of the ESXi host

# reboot

5. Checking after the installation

Check that the VAAI plugin has been installed properly.
# esxcli software vib list | grep NetApp
NetAppNasPlugin                1.1.2-3                                NetApp   VMwareAccepted    2017-03-16

File storage mount method for each cluster

  • **On vSphere Web Client, right-click the cluster name, and click “Storage” then “New Datastore...”. **


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  • **After the “Location” screen is displayed, merely click “Next”. **

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  • **For [Type], select “NFS”, then click “Next”. **

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  • **For [NFS Version], select “NFS 4.1” (this time), then click “Next”. **

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  • **For [Name and configuration], enter needed information, then click “Next”. **

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  • In this section, NFS is set with the following.

Example of [Details] Settings on [Create Server] Screen

Items

Setting value

Datastore Name NFS
Folder

/v+ (Created volume ID)

Server(s)

192.168.201.10 (IP address assigned to the created volume)

Access Mode

The default value is to be left.


  • **For “Configure Kerberos authentication”, uncheck the checkbox (due to absence of an authentication server this time), then click “Next”. **

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  • **Select a host server to be connected with [Host Accessibility]. **

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  • **Check the settings in [Ready to complete], then click “Finish”. **

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