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Re: Difference Between Provision and Used Space
Thanks Alim, In the below snap I have thin provision datastore size of almost 1TB, Over here "Provisioned Space is 847.34 and Free Space is 630.21. if u say provsion is allocated then if we plus...
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The above Datastore Capacity Summary is interpreted as follows :- Capacity is the Total Size.Provisioned Space is the total size allocated to the VMs.Free Space is the space not used up by VMs yet....
View ArticleRe: Fabric zoning best practices (new to FC)
Utilizing my incredible art skills, I drew a diagram for you:http://i.imgur.com/WU6iGGv.png A high level view of a fibre channel SAN should look incredibly similar, if not identical to your iSCSI...
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Ok that makes much more sense, thank you very much for the art work. Steven
View ArticleRe: Snapshot and DB re-indexing
Will your database have a problem with queuesing before the snapshot is taken? Make sure VM Tools is installed as well.
View ArticleRe: VSAN: cannot add storage policy, VSAN option missing under "rule based on...
You can try following workarounds Workaround: You can use one of the following options to resolve this issue:Restart the VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service.Move the host outside the cluster...
View ArticleRe: VMFS on iSCSI not avaiable, still reported as busy.
In ESXi 5.5 release PDL auto remove feature is added to improve unplanned device loss. check this kb article...
View ArticleRe: VAAI Plugins Missing?
If you have a storage array that supports Hardware acceleration vaai plugins are loaded automatically. In your setup you don't need to do anything. All vaai offload command are supported and they...
View ArticleRe: VAAI Plugins Missing?
Right, the output of the commands (referenced in your first link) is blank - see the first two commands in my post. I did expect them to load automatically, as VAAI is supported for ATS, Clone, Zero,...
View ArticleRe: Difference Between Provision and Used Space
Many Thanks Alim, You have cleared my confusion . Thanks a ton. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleProvision space vs used space mismatch
Hello team, New to this forum. have a Question about provision space vs used space, we have one VM which 3 virtualdisks ( image attached ) 1. Eager zerothick - 40gb ( C drive , 23.2gb used) 2. Lazy...
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When you thick provision VMDKs, the full size of each VMDK is used in the datastore. Whether eager zeroed or lazy, this process is the same from the datastore capacity view. The operating system's...
View ArticleRe: Invalid cast from 'System.String' on Virtual Machines Tab on Datastores View
same here, for me it was resolved by restarting vsphere client
View ArticleBEst PRactice to create one large LUn or small LUN
Dear Team, Storage team created one raid group size of 4TB, Now if I want to map this lun on one of the ESXi host so what should I do map two LUN size of 2TB and create two datastoreormap one LUN size...
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Hello MrVmware9423,It would be better to go ahead with two Lun's of 2TB each. Saying that, it always depends. Single big lun and smaller lun both has its positives and negatives. A single bug lun would...
View ArticleInfo on LUN Multipathing..
Dear Team, If we map new SAN LUN on one of the ESXi host , it detects 4paths.Just want to know these 4paths will be managed by Host or storage. regardsMr Vmware
View Articlehow to rescan all Host FC in one Go.
Dear Team, Please let me know how to rescan FC HBA for all Host in one GO. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleRe: Info on LUN Multipathing..
HI MrVmware9423,The path selection policy would be by default selected by ESXi unless you install any 3rdParty multipathing software. So physical paths maintained by you physical components. Logical...
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Re: how to rescan all Host FC in one Go.
Hello MrVmware9423,Run from powercli Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHbaThe above will rescan all the HBA on all the hosts.
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VMWare Path Selection Policy and EMC VMAX
Hi Storage Community, We're not using PowerPath yet (will be soon) but have an urgent need to present new VMAX storage to an ESXi 5 cluster. There will be 24 paths to the VMAX storage. The path...
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