VAAI and 3PAR

[ertuu85]

#167020

We recently purchased some 3par storage and I did some migrations which were a lot slower than I had anticipated.

Cloning a 150Gb server took about 25 minutes which translates to about 1Gb transfer, which sounds like it was not using VAAI but just using the hosts (which are connected to the SAN using 1Gb connections right now), the 3par has a 12Gb backplane.

I read that 3par doesnt require a plugin, but uses the native T10 plugin. I am not sure if this plugin should show up in my vaai plugins or not, i dont see it there if it should…any help on getting VAAI to work on my SAN would be greatly appreciated

I am using ESXi 6

[root] ls | grep vaaip
vmw_vaaip_cx
vmw_vaaip_emc
vmw_vaaip_eql
vmw_vaaip_hds
vmw_vaaip_lhn
vmw_vaaip_mask
vmw_vaaip_netapp
vmw_vaaip_symm

Running this command i see that Attached filter is blank..

[root] esxcli storage core device list
naa.60002ac000000000000000020001dc25
Display Name: 3PARdata iSCSI Disk (naa.60002ac000000000000000020001dc25)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 15728640
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60002ac000000000000000020001dc25
Vendor: 3PARdata
Model: VV
Revision: 3224
SCSI Level: 6
Is Pseudo: false
Status: on
Is RDM Capable: true
Is Local: false
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: false
Is VVOL PE: false
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Queue Full Sample Size: 0
Queue Full Threshold: 0
Thin Provisioning Status: yes
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: supported
Other UIDs: vml.020000000060002ac000000000000000020001dc255656 20202020
Is Shared Clusterwide: true
Is Local SAS Device: false
Is SAS: false
Is USB: false
Is Boot USB Device: false
Is Boot Device: false
Device Max Queue Depth: 128
No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
Drive Type: unknown
RAID Level: unknown
Number of Physical Drives: unknown
Protection Enabled: false
PI Activated: false
PI Type: 0
PI Protection Mask: NO PROTECTION
Supported Guard Types: NO GUARD SUPPORT
DIX Enabled: false
DIX Guard Type: NO GUARD SUPPORT
Emulated DIX/DIF Enabled: false

[root] esxcli storage core plugin list
Plugin name Plugin class

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VMW_VAAIP_LHN VAAI
VAAI_FILTER Filter
NMP MP

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