When we connected our new esx hosts to the MSA storage with SAS cable we need to investigate which ports belong to which hosts. As those information is not available through iLO we need to enable SSH service on the hosts and run the command
esxcli storage core adapter list
Now we can see that the initiator ending with %b53% belong to the host esx12.
So we can add those two initiator as a new host in the MSA ui.
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My name is Daniel Stadelmann. I’m a senior system engineer at BitHawk. Specialized on virtualization with VMware, all kind of backup and principles mainly with Veeam and HPE hardware and cloud services with VMware and AWS.
