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Implement and configure AWS Backup for VMware Cloud on AWS VM workloads

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In our previous post we saw the design of the AWS Backup on VMC. In this post we’re going through the implementation steps As per the design and best practice, we are going to use the ENI for the Backup traffic CREATE A VPC ENDPOINT  TO CREATE AN INTERFACE ENDPOINT FOR AN AWS SERVICE 1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc    2. In the navigation pane, choose Endpoints 3. Choose Create endpoint 4. Name the endpoint   5. For Service category, choose AWS services 6. For Service name, search “ Backup ” and select “ backup-gateway ” service from the dropdown 7. For VPC, select the VPC which we used for SDDC deployment and extension 8. To create an interface endpoint for Amazon S3, you must “uncheck” Additional settings, Enable DNS name. This is because Amazon S3 does not support private DNS for interface VPC endpoints 9. For  Subnets , select one subnet per Availability Zone which we used for SDDC VMC selection  10. For Security group , sel

HBA & multipathing on RHEL

Introduction
The firmware gets updated by the driver or each time the "qla2300" or "qla2400" modules are loaded. Drivers need specific firmware versions. Nevertheless here's QLogic firmware repo :ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/

Note. it's ok to have a more recent BIOS than firmware, but not the contrary.


Driver & Firmware installation
The driver should be included into the RHEL distribution. If not, use constructor's provided one e.g.,
make sure you have the gcc package,
rpm -q gcc
and install the driver,
./INSTALL -h
./INSTALL -f -a

Note. make sure the default binary isn't a link to gcc 2.95 (as it's sometimes the case on Oracle installs),
ll /usr/bin/gcc
or check that the gcc version matches the distribution build,
dmesg | head -1
/usr/bin/gcc --version


Driver, firmware and BIOS versions
To check the driver and firmware versions,
cat /proc/scsi/qla2300/1 | grep Firmware

To check the BIOS version, either note it during machine's boot process, or use SANsurfer.


SANsurfer installation
Install the SANsurfer agent on the server and use the SANsurfer Windows GUI to access it. Note. the default password for SANsurfer is "config".


BIOS update
SANsurfer allows you to update HBA's BIOS, FCode and NVRAM (if you do so, read multi-boot's image release notes).


Failover & multipathing
SANsurfer
SANsurfer also allows you to configure failover and multipathing. It uses that module,
qla2xxx_conf
with that configuration file,
/etc/hba.conf

DS4000
Prerequesties,
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc
yum update kernel
sync
reboot
and check after boot,
uname -r
ls -l /lib/modules

Install IBM RDAC,
tar xvzf rdac-LINUX-09.03.0C05.0030-source.tar.gz
cd linuxrdac-09.03.0C05.0030
make clean
make
make install

Edit GRUB,
cd /boot/grub
vi menu.lst
add above the other titles (default=0),
title CentOS (2.6.18-164.el5) with MPP support
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /mpp-2.6.18-164.el5.img
N.B. change kernel package version accordingly

Reboot and before Redhat starts up, connect the fiber channel cables,
shutdown -r now
once started check everything's fine,
fdisk -l
sfdisk -s
Note. you should see one multipathed disk per LUN, as sdX.

Redhat multipathing
Prerequesties,
rpm -q device-mapper-multipath

Configure,
cd /etc
mv multipath.conf multipath.conf.dist
sed '/^#/d; /^$/d' multipath.conf.dist > multipath.conf
vi multipath.conf
change to blacklist local harddrive only,
blacklist {
devnode "sda"
}
enable,
service multipathd start
chkconfig multipathd on
check everything's fine,
fdisk -l
sfdisk -s

Note. SLES names it "multipath-tools"
Note. the old method was to use an "md" raid device on both pathes, treating one path as spare,
#mdadm --create -f -lmp -n2 -x1 /dev/md0 /dev/<channela> /dev/<channelb>
Note. make sure write cach mirroring is enabled (marc.info/?l=linux-lvm&m=108690553031551&w=2).

EMC
Use PowerPath. Also install "navihostagent" and "navicli".

IBM ESS, DS600, DS9000
Use "sdd" for failover and load balancing.


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