Re: power cycle storage
Thank you for your reply! What is considered extended period of time? According to EMC CE the whole process of power cycle will take around one hour. I guess it includes everything.Do you think one...
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I *personally* would not mask for an hour. However, there have been many improvements since ESXi 5.0 for the APD. I ran into this on ESXi 5.1 for about half a day and never had any issues, when someone...
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Recovery site mount of VMFS LUN corruption issues
I am in the process of testing RecoverPoint 4.0 replicated LUN in a recovery site. vCenter and vSphere hosts are 5.0 U3. When I mount a LUN from the latest RP snap at the recovery site, I can add...
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Sorry about the delay. I just posted a article on multipathing with fiber channel. I hope it helps, Let me know if you have additional questions: http://blog.jgriffiths.org/?p=689
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Everything worked fine, no need for LAN Masking. The whole process took under 1 hour.Thank you for your help!
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Gortee, thanks for publishing that blog post. Only one question so far... AIUI, a host can send a RTPG command to an ALUA array concerning a particular LUN, and thus learn the best port on which to...
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At least at the enterprise, cost is no object level, why isn't this architecture pretty much universal? Cost? Inertia?->Great question. I think there are two reasons. First each vendor has...
View ArticleHow to backup a datastore in one host to another host via powercli?
I am to migrate a host from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 . Before doing so i would like to take a backup of all the guest machines in the datastore of a server to another server. What is the easiest way? All...
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Hello, Check out William Lam's post on this very subject - copying VMs between hosts without shared storage, ovftool works well. virtuallyGhetto: How to Copy VMs Directly Between ESXi Hosts Without...
View ArticleRe: VM(s) producing load on a particular datastore? (GUI?)
Finally got PowerCLI (5.5.0) installed and configured - the scripts above work very well (thanks, again)! Another question:I'm reading the docs and think I understand everything above, except one thing...
View ArticleQNAP or FreeNAS?
Hi, I have a small company that has about 30 ESX VMs running. If we want to expand our current storage, which would be better - building a FreeNAS box, or purchasing a commercial unit such as QNAP? Do...
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Re: VM(s) producing load on a particular datastore? (GUI?)
Replying to myself here so hopefully someone else will find it . The best way to get this type of list is Get-StatType[Interval|Type].The reason is that any doc might not be as up-to-date as the actual...
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Re: Updating Equallogic Firmware
Hi Welcome to the communities.Before upgrading the firmware we must know the firmware the root cause .As per my experiences if we call any of product tech support first they will guide updates os ,...
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Re: NFS log error
Hi Welcome to the communities. Its striking to me something wrong with NIC , any hwo you may tried with protocol setting . "You must not lose faith in humanity".
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Re: Unable to remove datastore
You cannot remove an inactive NFS datastore with Storage I/O Control enabled. However, when the back end volume is ungracefully removed, Storage I/O Control cannot be disabled.Check this KB for more...
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Re: HP P410 RAID controller and SSD
Smart Array P410, P411 controllers properly support them. The Smart Array management application correctly shows "SSD drive" as a description with P410, 411 controllers.Do not try to use older...
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Re: Virtual Environment VMware ESXi 5.1.0 & Storage (iSCSI storage area...
Hi i can help you with this page to troubleshoot and give you the best experience setting up scsi for ESXI 5.1 VMware KB: Configuring and troubleshooting basic software iSCSI setup hope this will...
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