Detailed steps for VNX5400 to create a LUN assigned to an ESXi host

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As for the physical appearance and connection of EMC VNX5400 storage, I believe that as long as you use this article, you should know what the entire physical architecture looks like. Skip it here, and if you are not clear, you can do it on your own.

The main steps are as follows:

Create RG on VNX5400 or pool (Raid Group) create Lun on RG or pool create SG on VNX5400 (Storage Group) assign Lun in SG create initiators registration initiator assign hostESXi host side scan disk in SG

The detailed steps are as follows:

1. Create a RG raid group or pool

Note: for larger NL_SAS hard drives, sometimes the creation of raid group will fail, then you can use these disks to create pools.

two。 Create a LUN on RG or pool

Create a lun using pool

Create a lun using raid groups

At this point, the lun is created.

3. Create a SG (Storage Group) on VNX5400

Assign Lun in SG

5. Create initiators

Go to the mainframe to check the WWN number of the HBA card:

Register for initiator

Assign host in SG

Scan disk on host side of ESXi

At this point, the host has identified the five lun separated by VNX5400 through the front-end port of AMUE 1.

Next, create a datastore on the ESXi host, and that's fine.

Maximum 64TB support for a single datastore

The storage has been allocated at this point.