Re: Is ASMLIB required for NetApp's SMO on RHEL 6 when using VMWare?
- From: Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dananrg@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:19:58 -0400
> But our sysadmins say, in a VMWare environment, that ASM diskgroups look like
> plain SCSI to RHEL 6. And have suggested ASMLIB is therefore not required.
He probably meant iSCSI devices, not ASM disk groups. That's true
since iSCSI stands for Internet SCSI, i.e. encapsulates SCSI protocol
so you can run it over your network. The devices then look as any
other SCSI device to the OS.
The requirement you quoted is from SnapManager and that might be
relevant -- perhaps SnapManager was coded with some assumptions about
asmlib presented in the system? It certainly should not be a generic
requirement.
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