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Re: Lun Offset Question - NetApp Filers

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The VSC plugin from NetApp allows the offsetting of LUNS....

 

https://communities.netapp.com/docs/DOC-23811

 

At NetApp, we've developed a way to alleviate alignment problems  without having to take virtual machines offline. Optimization and  Migration lets you quickly identify misaligned VMs and mitigate the  effects. Essentially, what VSC does is take the approach that "two  wrongs make a right." We've found a way to "lie" to VMware, telling it  that misaligned virtual machines are aligned. Then we address the  misalignment on back-end storage, so there is no longer any impact on  the network or the ESXi host.

 

To achieve this, VSC first does a scan operation to identify  misaligned virtual machines. For each misaligned VM, all you have to do  is migrate it to a "functionally aligned" datastore, which is a LUN with  a specialized offset. If you've already performed the procedure in the  past, a functionally aligned datastore will already exist. If not, the  wizard lets you create one. When you complete the scan, VSC triggers a  Storage vMotion® action into the functionally aligned datastore, which  doesn't disrupt the running virtual machine.

 

If  you've got many misaligned virtual machines, VSC lets you perform these  processes in bulk so you don't have to move each virtual machine one at  a time. Right now the process only works for VMFS datastores, but NFS  support is coming. Note that you should never move an aligned VM into a  functionally aligned datastore; if you do, it will become misaligned.


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