Re: LTO4 Tape on Windows Host not working properly
Hello, Just to get a better idea of what might be going:on what version is Backup Exec?Is it installed on a physical server (recommended)?Is the tape drive connected to the media server (required)?...
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Hi! Backup Exec is version 2010 R3 with all updated applied.This is a small environment, just one Dell server with the external tape drive connected directly to it using a Dell SAS 5/E Adaptes. The...
View ArticleRe: Impact of lost storage connection
If anyone else has experience on this feel free to chime in
View ArticleExpanding datastore what is the best way ?
Hello All,i want you help about expanding a datastore. I have a HA cluster with three host (ESXi 5.5). all the host are actually sharing a unique Datastore where all VMs runs. the datastore is created...
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I'm not familiar with the storage system you use, but usually these storage systems have multiple controllers which can be owners of LUNs presented to the hosts. With using only a single LUN/datastore...
View ArticleAcceptable iSCSI target names.
Does ESXi limit iSCSI target names which can be used only to IQN and EUI? When I try to add a static iSCSI target with a name like this:ny-datastore-3 I get the following error in vCenter (ver 5.5.0,...
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Hello diyan9,iSCSI target name is always either in IQN or EUI format. When we configure the target it needs to be in that format only. For example, in creating IQN style iqn.yyyy-mm.{reversed domain...
View ArticleRe: Expanding datastore what is the best way ?
hello andré,thanks for your answer. Yes of course the storage have two controllers but they are active/active (they are all accessing the existing LUN). i 'm hesitating to add another LUN because VMs...
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Hello assanemd,what Andre meant are the following scenarios: 1. Why use a single LUN. Create a separate LUN and then create another datastore on this new lun. So now you will have two separate...
View ArticleRe: Expanding datastore what is the best way ?
Thanks for explaining this sajal1.>>> ... the storage have two controllers but they are active/active ...This doesn't necessarily mean that both controllers are active for the same LUN. For...
View ArticleRe: Acceptable iSCSI target names.
Thank you sajal1. I suspected that that might be the case. However, I could not find a definitive statement from VMware explicitly stating that IQN and EUI are the only iSCSI target naming conventions...
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Re: Acceptable iSCSI target names.
Hello diyan9,You are welcome. As I understand the iSCSI target naming convention is as it is (IQN and EUI). That is the format universally supported. The same works in Linux environments as well. So...
View ArticleHow to move VM's to a new storage AND new hosts
Hi,I'm having a hard time figuring out, how I am going to move all VM's from an NFS storage to a new iscsi storage (HP SAN). We are also introducing new hardware for the hosts, so all in all this will...
View ArticleRe: How to move VM's to a new storage AND new hosts
Since it sounds like you are setting up a completely new environment = I would set up the new 5.5 environment and use VMware Standalone Converter to V2V the VMs to the new environment -
View ArticleRe: How to move VM's to a new storage AND new hosts
I never considered using external tools like the converter. As I see it, I would still have to approach the problem of not being connected to both storages, unless you think I should introduce a third...
View ArticleRe: How to move VM's to a new storage AND new hosts
Here is what you can do: (this solution works only if you can do VMotion between old and new set of servers)- Configure iSCSI(assuming you are configuring SWiSCSI) on new set of servers.Make sure you...
View ArticleRe: How to move VM's to a new storage AND new hosts
Using Converter you do not need to have both environments connected to the same storage - it will move the workloads across the network - it can be tedious but because the migrations can be done while...
View ArticleRe: Incorrect "Used Storage" reported - ESX 5.5
hi,we got the same problem on VNX 5300 and vsphere 5.5 too.On 1 esx if a vm got an IO Limit it will create a hudge kernel latency (KAVG/WR) on the ESX, if we remove all the IO limit everything is ok.We...
View ArticleConvert thick to thin don't works
Hello, Please help me to find out why when i convert thick lazy zeroed disk to thin via vmkfstools -i ./disk.vmdk ./thin-disk.vmdk -d thin, i get same thick lazy zeroed disk, although the process was...
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