9 thoughts on “Setting up VVOLs on HP 3PAR

  1. Good post Mike, What does the mgmt on the 3Par side look like compared to traditional LUN mgmt?

    Thats the part that no over ever covers?

    1. Can we migrate a vm running on top of vvol to different policy. For e.g I have a vm running with bronze policy on SSD CPG Raid 6 and I want to move to Silver Policy that is created with SSD CPG Raid 1. I am using Inform OS 3.3.1

  2. it’s all CLI based (showvvolvm), we hide the actual sub-LUNs from the 3PAR SSMC and showvv by flagging them as bulk, VVols are not designed to be managed at all from the storage array side

    btw, I promise to finish updating the 3par implementation guide this week for the changes in 3.2.2 that support multiple storage containers

    1. Haha, thanks Eric – I knew I should’ve just reached out to you in the beginning 🙂 Probably would’ve saved me a lot of time 🙂

      And Brian that was my assumption as well – If I were to deploy VVOLs in production then I would be doing so under the assumption that I don’t need to manage anything from the storage end of things. Point being I’m letting the vSphere Admin manage his own stuff from his comfort zone of the vSphere Web Client.

      It would be nice to actually see them within SSMC though and get performance reports and whatnot, which I’m sure will come with time!

    2. Can we migrate a vm running on top of vvol to different policy. For e.g I have a vm running with bronze policy on SSD CPG Raid 6 and I want to move to Silver Policy that is created with SSD CPG Raid 1. I am using Inform OS 3.3.1.

      I tried migrating but it failed saying “Invalid virtual machine config

      1. Currently we don’t support changing CPGs of a VM via policy, that is a roadmap item for our next release though.

        1. @ericsiebert:disqus Thanks for the information. Do we have any whitepaper from VMWARE/HPE on this.
          and also this release would be from HPE side or from VMWARE side?

  3. naz, you can only create & delete storage containers, not rename them, to delete use the setvvolsc -remove command

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