Peter.Learmonth at netapp
Jun 6, 2012, 9:49 PM
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Hi Guys
Couple things going on.
First, Tim is correct that VAAI for NFS is supported in Cluster-Mode in 8.1. VAAI support for 7-mode is coming soon. However, the same VIB works with both.
Second, regardless of ONTAP release, the VIB should still install in ESXi 5. I suspect it's because you named it NetAppNasPlugin.zip when the expected file name should be NetAppNasPlugin.vib.
The .zip format, which isn't actually published yet, is the offline format. The .zip and .vib are actually a different format. The .zip actually contains the .vib, plus some other metadata. While the offline version can be installed in a running ESX server, it's really meant for use with ImageBuilder either to build your own images for regular installation, or for use with AutoDeploy.
I hope this helps!
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: toasters-bounces [at] teaparty [mailto:toasters-bounces [at] teaparty] On Behalf Of tmac
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 5:01 PM
To: Klise, Steve
Cc: toasters [at] teaparty
Subject: Re: VSC NFS 1.0 plugin for VCEnter
Are you using c-mode or running in 7-mode?
That plugin is, I believe, only supported in cluster-mode, per the
documentation.
Here...from the release notes:
The NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration
(VAAI) is supported on Data ONTAP® 8.1 or later
operating in Cluster-Mode.
--tmac
Tim McCarthy
Principal Consultant
RedHat Certified Engineer
804006984323821 (RHEL4)
805007643429572 (RHEL5)
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Klise, Steve <klises [at] sutterhealth> wrote:
> I'm reaching here..
>
> Issue with Netapp plugin for NFS VAAI 1.0 plug-in
> I am trying to install the NFS plugin to our
> test ESXi5,
> Vsphere 5,
> VSC 4
> DOT 8.1 test environment.
>
>
>
> I have installed the VSC 4.0, and copied the vib file into the appropriate location per install document on the vcenter server. When I try to upgrade the esxi hosts via VSC, the ESXi hosts are grayed out, as in, not capable to upgrade. When I try to do manually from the esxcli console, I get this error:
>
> [root ERROR] list failed: [MetadataDownloadError]
> Could not download from depot at zip:/var/log/vmware?index.xml, skipping (('zip:/var/log/vmware?index.xml', '', "Error extracting index.xml from /var/log/vmware: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/var/log/vmware'"))
> url = zip:/var/log/vmware?index.xml
> Please refer to the log file for more details.
>
> This is my syntax.
>
> esxcli software sources vib list -d file:///NetAppNasPlugin.zip
>
>
> I have a case open, but figured I would ping the world to see if something comes back..
>
> Reference doc 215-06762_A0.pdf
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
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