I have been through the ringer but have finally arrived at the point where i have the following working.
- VNX5300 is seen through SMI, has attached to a Storage Pool with a classification
- Through the SMI Agent using the 12.1.5 HP San Network Advisor (Professional Version) to attach to both my fabrics and see the zonesets.
Here is where it gets weird. I assume that I see both an active and an inactive zoneset because thats how zones are configured, saved and then made active. However, when I look at the zone list for the active set, I zones and counts of their members. But the inactive one shows nothing. Also, i understand that I should see the zone connections when i look at the hosts I should see their connections to the zones.
The VMs show the zones they are connected.
My question is that it seems that i have imcomplete information and I hesitate to connect vms to the SAN until i know it is going to disrupt my already functioning SAN. It seems that there is a best practice that there should be a zone for every connection between two devices. Now i know it is better (and have setup) zones to separate traffic and connections but this one to one seems overly complex.
Because of this, i dont want to make a change that 'looks' like it will affected the rest of the fabric. There is so little REAL documentation on what SCVMM does and does not do when connected to a fabric. It took a while just to get my HP brocade fabrics to even properly talk to SCVMM and now that it is here, i feel i am missing something.
Daren