Hello-
I absolutely love the VSM for creating and destroying datastores. It is very labor-saving when it comes to deleting volumes.
Here's my problem: I have 6 clusters, with 5 ESXi hosts in each cluster. We do this to reduce the ISCSI connection count to the array. I expose each EQ volume to a single cluster. 1-to-1. My problem is that sometimes I need to move a volume to another VMware cluster. This is a manual process. VSM can't help me with that, with the exception of changing the ACL.
I'm looking to write a powerCLI that will mimic the steps the VSM takes when removing a volume:
1) Unmount VMFS Volume
2) Detach SCSI LUN
3) Delete state information
4) Remove Internet SCSI static targets
5) Rescan all HBAs
1, 2, 3 are reasonably easy, I believe. Number 4 is the hard one.
So, does anyone have any insight on how the VSM is doing this? How can I automate this process, but just for moving a datastore to another cluster; not deleting it?
Also, if anyone at Dell/Equallogic is listening, this is a feature request...