Re: Shared hard drive in guest VMs
What if Linux could access VMFS directly? https://github.com/glandium/vmfs-toolsUnfortunately not very actively developed!?
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Tim Scheppeit my response was specific to the question that mirumpf had asked in comment # 4. I completely agree that a cluster aware app would ensure data consistency across shared disks. However IMO...
View ArticleRe: Impact of lost storage connection
Supposing I did know the number of outstanding write commands, how would you use that data to determine the practical impact on an application such as sharepoint losing it's connection to storage? How...
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Evening, Great question. I assume you are trying to create a justification for two HBA's or for a lower RPO. I have had hundreds of storage failures even on redundant array's and rarely have I run...
View ArticleLTO4 Tape on Windows Host not working properly
Hi I recently joined a company where I had to configure a new server esxi with windows and linux host and attach a Tape Drive and SAS adapter they have been using in an old server. I'm new to esxi and...
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Array Controller Unmounted
Hello,I have one of the of the array controllers (not LUN) with Operational State "Unmounted".Even ESXi host reboot didn't solve the problem.It looks like storage problem, but ..........1. All Paths...
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I ran into the same issue in the past and had to re-mount the controller manually again from the local ESXi cli because the remount option was not available from the GUI. The process is documented...
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Vmware vsphere multipath
Hello all .. I would like to ask few questions regarding iscsi multipath option in ESXi 5.5 I did setup my two kernel ports and bind them to software iscsi adapter ... I followed this blog :...
View ArticleHigh Availability without Shared Storage
I'm guessing the answer to my question might be VSA or possibly vSAN, but what is the simplest way to implement high availability for VMs using DAS on the vSphere 5.5 hosts? I have a need to support...
View ArticleRe: High Availability without Shared Storage
Depending on the VMs roles, vSphere Replication may indeed be an option if you can afford the loss of not yet replicated data in case of a host failure. On the other hand, if an HP host with a Smart...
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Your DAS may be turned into Shared NFS Storage.
View ArticleRe: Incorrect "Used Storage" reported - ESX 5.5
Hi, I can confirm the same thing is happening with a EMC VNX5300 as the storage and vCenter 5.5b. Thanks, David
View ArticleGetting error in VAAI NAS cross volume test case
hi, I was running VAAI NAS cross volume test cases (using same volume as a source and destination). In NegLazyZTCV test case i got below error mesage UTC [ MAIN ] [0] ERROR: Argument...
View ArticleRe: High Availability without Shared Storage
Really depends on your requirements. You could use the VSA. You could also use an additional server with local storage in a raid to present to ESXi via NFS. It works great. Don't expect P4000...
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Re: Vmware vsphere multipath
Ok , so I did check my array , so there was an option to allow multiple sessions to one ISCSI target. So if somebody is using Synology NAS for some lab purposes or other there is chceck box which...
View ArticleRe: iSCSI Port Binding Question
virtualinstall wrote: Thanks jsut re-reading them all again as I'm starting to get a better understaning, one point in the Dell Deployment Guide is "Configuring hardware initiators from within VMware®...
View ArticleRe: Vmware vsphere multipath
Sorry to say I don't have one to test with but I bet that is the cause of your issue
View ArticleVMFS on iSCSI not avaiable, still reported as busy.
Hi all, last week I experienced an APD on a LUN for a VMFS datastores that contains the configuration files of all my VMs.We run the license free version of 5.1.0 ESXi.The VMs that had their...
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