Re: How to move VM's to a new storage AND new hosts
I will consider an alternative to your suggestion. As I have "enough" NICs on the new hosts, I thought I would attach the old NFS storage to a free vmnic (later used for Multiple-NIC vMotion) on the...
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Re: How to move VM's to a new storage AND new hosts
Your suggestion also seem plausible. As I do not have experience using the Converter, I will have to read up on it before deciding. Thanks for enlightening me
View ArticleRe: How to move VM's to a new storage AND new hosts
It would work if you are fine with having downtime for your VM's. If you cannot afford downtime,you can try install same set of ESX(i) version on few new set of servers( say 10 out of 50 new servers)...
View ArticleRe: Convert thick to thin don't works
Which version of ESX are you trying this. I couldn't see your issue. How did you confirm that the disk conversion didn't happen
View ArticleRe: Expanding datastore what is the best way ?
thanks andré and sajal for your support. i finally created a new LUN and new datastore as you suggested.
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Independent disks of other disks. Safe removal?
We're using EMC Avamar as backup of VM's. The VM avamar server add's the disks of the VM's it taking backup off, as Independent and nonpersistent disks.Avamar failed the backup job and the server still...
View ArticleRe: Boot from SAN: WWPN or WWNN ?
Quite simply, the WWPN is used to create a predictable path to the boot LUN. Quite often you'll have multiple boot policies - one going to a pair (or more) of WWPNs and another going to the opposite...
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Re: Boot from SAN: WWPN or WWNN ?
Chris,thank you for taking the time to read and respond.Again, you are bringing zoning back into the scene, so now I'm strongly considering that the reason is indirect, i.e.. it's a security mandated...
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Your boot from SAN config should allow for multiple WWPN entries. I usually use four WWPNs: two primary and two secondary. The ordering would be controller 1 port 1, controller 2 port 2, controller 1...
View ArticleRe: Independent disks of other disks. Safe removal?
I'm not 100% sure (but almost) that you can safely remove the virtual disks from the appliance. When you do this, make sure you select the "Remove from virtual machine" option (do NOT select the option...
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Re: Independent disks of other disks. Safe removal?
Hi a.p.You were right. We contacted vmware support, they assured us it wasn't a problem to remove the disks.Thanks for the help!
View ArticleDifference Between Provision and Used Space
Dear Team, can some one please explain me the difference between provision and used disk space in simple words. regardsMr VMware
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Hi Mr VMware Provisioned is how much storage has been allocated.Used is how much of that allocation is actually being used by the VM. You may think this should be the same. However, it is only relevant...
View ArticleIOPS change from 1000 to 1
We are planning for changing IOPS value from 1000 to 1 as per recommandations given by EMC. I have two questions on this. 1. Are there any adverse effects on VMware due to this?2. Is it really...
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VSAN: cannot add storage policy, VSAN option missing under "rule based on...
Hey, I have a problem with the final version of VSAN. I have upgraded all my hosts to 5.5 Update 1 and I have configured the VSAN cluster successfully.Unfortunately, when I try to add a storage policy,...
View ArticleRe: IOPS change from 1000 to 1
To be honest, I've never performed tests where I compared the performance for these two settings. For all the different storage system I installed so far (including EMC storage) I left the settings on...
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Re: VSAN: cannot add storage policy, VSAN option missing under "rule based on...
UPDATE 2: I think it is somehow related to the profile-driven storage service.Find attached the log with connection errors to the esx hosts...Hosts are fully reachable via DNS... Also this alarm is...
View ArticleRe: IOPS change from 1000 to 1
I was also running storage with default settings for years without any problem but I had one storage performance issue which actually had nothing to do with VMware at all and EMC came in for fixing the...
View ArticleRe: IOPS change from 1000 to 1
I'm pretty sure it won't harm, otherwise storage vendors like EMC would not recommend it. André
View ArticleUse OCFS2 on RHEL/SUSE w/o RDM
Hi all, I'm wondering if there is an ufficial guide in order to understand how to install and use OCFS2 on VMs with RHEL or SUSE without using RDM (maybe using multi-writer flag). Thanks in advance for...
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