Re: Storage I/O control benefit with one host only?
The SIOC only looks the Datastore, which in turn made up of FC LUN or ISCSI LUN or NFS, and these are again made up of SSD or SAS or SATA HDD, So based on the type of HDD used to make a LUN defines the...
View Articleadding a lun to multiple storage groups
Is it ok to have the same luns in multiple storage groups? I am setting up a new cluster and its on its own storage group. But I need to have the other luns mounted in the other cluster so that I can...
View ArticleRe: adding a lun to multiple storage groups
That's typically how it's done for any host that is using a boot from SAN (BFS) design, so yes. As an example: Typically in BFS I present the boot LUN as host ID 0 and the other LUNs (for vSphere...
View ArticleRe: adding a lun to multiple storage groups
ok. So, identical luns mapped to multiple storage groups is no different than the identical mapped to the same storage group with multiple esx hosts right?
View ArticleFailure of RDM mapping of local SATA storage
I'm struggling with an RDM mapping to local SATA storage. I have a P9x79 WS mobo running ESXi 5.1. I want to use FreeNAS in a VM with two Western Digital Red 3 TB drives. When I follow the steps to...
View ArticleWindows 8 problem
Hi, I have ESXi 5.0 U1 with HP SAN. The server is HP DL 580 G7 8 Core.There are several Machines running perfect but now I am tryin gto install Windows 8 that is not proceeding further. After initial...
View ArticleRe: FalconStor NSS Gateway Appliance
Dear SA,are you still looking for a appliance? We are using a NSS Appliance and I can share some notes if you´re still interessted in.RegardsMT
View ArticleRe: Virtual (Windows) Fileservers with a lot of storage
Ok, Thanks for the information, so keeping it on a couple of vmdk's instead of RAW lun's would be the best thing to do ?
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 problem
Hi, Can you enable 3D on virtual machine and re-install WIndows 8. RegardsMOhammed
View ArticleIncrease IOPS for a Single VM
Hi All,Not sure if these possible. I have a ESXi 5.0 installed with 15 VM's running. and one of the VM has huge latency , people access the application installed on that VM continously and due to these...
View ArticleRe: Increase IOPS for a Single VM
If I understand correctly you have 1 host with 15 VM's. I assume they are sharing the same datastore.. There is your problem. Your disks array or possibly you don't have enough spindles, can't keep up...
View ArticleRe: Increase IOPS for a Single VM
Its possible he has SAS drives - Robert. Perhaps before telling him he's doing it wrong, we should ask what he has?
View ArticleRe: Increase IOPS for a Single VM
Name is not "Robert" I didn't assume that was the problem, but 15 VM's on a single only once of which is having an issue, disk seems a logical choice. I have seen this problem before, I am fairly...
View ArticleRe: Increase IOPS for a Single VM
if you have multiple hosts... and shares that datastore you can use SIOC and disk shares to prioritize the IOPS but u need ENT+ license..else you can use normal disk shares..that will ensure critical...
View ArticleDisk device path not specified for RDM backing
Hi, I am currentlly trying to create shared storage to use on a Microsoft cluster within ESX 5.1 environment. We are using a NetApp SAN (V3160 Series) When the LUN is created and attached to...
View ArticleRe: Disk device path not specified for RDM backing
Hi, When you say try to create RDM disk , are you adding disk to VM, if yes, what mode, physical or virtual mode. RegardsMohammed
View ArticleRe: Disk device path not specified for RDM backing
We are using physical Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 2013-01-21 à 19:47, "Mohammed Emaad" <communities-emailer@vmware.com<mailto:communities-emailer@vmware.com>> a écrit : VMware...
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Re: Increase IOPS for a Single VM
Thanks all for reply,i regret giving incomplete information. VM's running on local storage only. Antivirus Server and a Print Server is running on this and mainly for both VM's only we are facing slow...
View ArticleRe: Increase IOPS for a Single VM
Change the share on their disks? That way if there is contention, the VMs that according to you need preference will get it.
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