One of my clients bought a couple of HP blade c7000 enclosures recently. Including the new dual port Flex-10 mezzanine cards (nc532m) and Flex-10 Virtual Connect modules. Due to the fact that this technology is quite new, not much inside-info is found on the web. I’ve had lots of discussions with Ken Cline and Scott Lowe, which will publish an Flex-10 article by it’s own pretty soon. This write-up is a quick overview of lessons learned by me but even
more a call for answers.
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VMFS Volume Management document
VMware published an excellent document about VMFS volume management a few days ago.
VMware® VMFS Volume Management information guide
The guide explains the VMFS volume header metadata mechanism and describes the new 3.5 setting SCSI.CompareLUNNumber. A must read if you use third-party storage snapshot and replication technology.