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Installing VMware ESXi 6.0 

Perform the procedure in this section on all Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers.

1.  Download the Cisco Custom image for VMware ESXi 6.0 from the following URL: 

2.  In Cisco UCS Manager, select a blade server and launch a KVM console session. From the console’s

 Virtual Media tab, 

select 

Map CD/DVD and mount the Cisco custom ISO image that you downloaded in the previous step. 

3.  Select the CiscoVD Hypervisor partition, as shown in the Figure 34. 

Figure 34.  VMware ESXi Installation Storage Device Selection

4.  After the ESXi installation is complete, reboot the system and configure the management IP address.

Prepare VMware ESXi for StorMagic SvSAN Deployment

1.  Log in to the ESXi host using the vSphere client, navigate to 

Configuration >Storage, and click Add Storage to add 

persistent storage to the ESXi host for SvSAN VSA deployment. 

2.  Create a storage array type plug-in (SATP) rule to help ensure that ESXi uses the round-robin path policy and reduces the 

path I/O operation per second (IOPS) count to 1 IOPS for all StorMagic iSCSI volumes (Figure 35).

 

esxcli storage nmp satp rule add --satp “VMW_SATP_ALUA” --psp “VMW_PSP_RR” -O iops=1 
--vendor=”StorMagc” --model=”iSCSI Volume”

Figure 35.  Create SATP Rule

 

 

This step helps ensure the even distribution of I/O across mirrored volumes and is a best practice for StorMagic on Cisco 
UCS Mini architecture. You can use the following command to verify that the setting has taken affect:

 

esxcli storage nmp device list