Re: Copying data from Virtual Machine Disk to Local disk is toooooo slow
Hard to say without doing performance tests. From what you said, I'd take a closer look at the outgoing network traffic (VM -> local system) and also check the local systems's disk performance as...
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Have you installed the Host Integration Toolkit? There is some more information for you here:Re-Thin? UNMAP? Damn Dell Equallogic PS4100 cant reclaim space. - Spiceworks
View Articlebymistake mask production lun
Dear Team, on one esx host i have two lun from two different storage both have same lun id i.e.3 LUN from DS3400 storagevmhba2:c0:t2:l3vmhba2:c0:t3:l3vmhba5:c0:t2:l3vmhba5:c0:t3:l3 LUN from DS8800...
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Get your money back all of these products are worthless
View ArticleBest Practices for Datastores setup
I need some advice on best practices for setting up datastores, and in particular nfs data stores. Things I am looking for is that is it best to setup datastores for different types of data or one...
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Give a read on this.http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-WP-vSPHR-NAS-USLET-101-WEB.pdf RegardsSaran AR
View ArticleRe: Virtual Environment VMware ESXi 5.1.0 & Storage (iSCSI storage area...
Hi, Without some more specific questions I cannot give you many specific answers but hopefully my guide on VMware EqualLogic iSCSI setup will provide a starting ground for you. If you have any specific...
View ArticleRe: Best Practices for Datastores setup
NFS datastores do not suffer many of the caveats that block storage protocols do, mainly because the storage array has visibility into the specific VM a write or read is being issued to. Assuming the...
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Re: Copying data from Virtual Machine Disk to Local disk is toooooo slow
So you're copying data from a virtual machine to your physical desktop, and that's slow? Have you tried copying any other data to your physical desktop to compare the speed? Typically a desktop will...
View ArticleRe: Move an ESX host and its data store, provided by an EMC CX3 lun to new...
Typically, once you add a host to a Storage Group it will disconnect from any previous groups. Since you have both hosts in the TestDev group (and they should both be able to see LUN1), it may be...
View ArticleRe: Copying data from Virtual Machine Disk to Local disk is toooooo slow
Dear All,Thanks for your help.We were analyzing the issue in 360 degree and we have considered your inputs also. At last we found the issue. It was a faulty fiber link was creating the problem. We have...
View ArticleDatastore Cluster Issue
I've got a datastore cluster and every datastore that can be accessed by this particular compute cluster has been added to that datastore cluster. SDRS is enabled. All datastores are 2TB.However, now...
View ArticleVMware shared storage Design Advice using an IBM Storwize V3700 // 6 Gbps SAS...
Hello experts, as part of a Server Consolidation using Virtualization project for a new customer, we are planning to repurpose an existing IBM Storwize V3700 as VMware shared storage. This Storage is...
View ArticleRemoving datastores from a datastore cluster
What issues / caveats are there if you have a single datastore that is not part of a datastore cluter, when all other datastores are part of the cluster? I have one datastore that needs to be...
View ArticleRe: Copying data from Virtual Machine Disk to Local disk is toooooo slow
What is the Virtual Machine Disk format??? Are u manually copying the data or using any third part free file coy tools like Fastcopy or Robocopy
View ArticleRe: Copying data from Virtual Machine Disk to Local disk is toooooo slow
Thanks for your reply The disk format is Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed. But we have found the cause of the issue and it is solved as I mentioned in my post. It was because of the faulty fiber splicing.
View ArticleRe: Removing datastores from a datastore cluster
When using datastore clusters and Storage DRS, I find it useful to also use storage profiles. When you do this, you can ensure VMs meant to stay on certain datastores do. The corollary is that VMs...
View ArticleRe: VMware shared storage Design Advice using an IBM Storwize V3700 // 6 Gbps...
Hello, So some pros of shared SAS include the ease of setup and management. Shared SAS may also be cheaper if you don't already have GbE available. The cons are more important if you ask me, though....
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