In theory you should be able to do this with crossover cables, but I don't know for sure if it works. 

Direct connections to the VNXe SP is not supported at this time.  We are working to get this supported in a future release.

Mike G.

I was curious, has anything changed here with direct-attach support since January?

We are planning direct-attached support for the next major release of VNXe.

No, I mean the next major release due out in 2H 2013.

By next major release, I assume you don't mean a maintenance code release for the existing platforms?

Hi Matheus,

Though direct connection might work but its not recommended. The system will encounter serious issues during failover and failback without the switch. Hence its always recommended to have switch in place between VNXe and the hosts.

Regards

Shivanand

Tks for your reply Shivanand,

Precisely because of this, I advised the costumer to acquire the switch soon as possible.

This DAS is temporary, but in theory, it works ok!  I see no problem in case of a laboratory environment.

Recently I deploy a VNXe3150 whit VMware ESXi 5.1 using DAS (direct attached storage), and its work like a charm.

VNXe OE - MR4 - 2.4.0.20932

My DAS connection:

vmnic2 10.10.10.3 > 10.10.10.1 SPA ETH2
vmnic3 11.11.11.3 > 11.11.11.2 SPB ETH3

srv02

vmnic2 10.10.10.4 > 10.10.10.2 SPB ETH2
vmnic3 11.11.11.4 > 11.11.11.1 SPA ETH3

But by the way, the EMC currently support DAS for VNXe Series?

Hi Math

we have same configuration like yours (VNXe 3150 with DAS to a host ESXi)

we have created a test volume but host ESXi only show 1 path (volume in VNXe 3150 only belongs to iSCSI Server A in SPA). we can vmkping from host esxi to the interfaces in SPA & SPB

we want configure multipathing using SPA & SPB for the host ESXi, is it possible?

regards

jose