Re: Is Unified Storage a pipe dream?
Did you ever discover a way to get acceptable performance from that VNX5300? This array is on the shortlist to replace our aging EVA6100 and I'm a bit nervous after reading about your experience....
View ArticleRe: VSA Hardware
Is a HP Smart Array P420i Controller on HCL ? DL380 G8 comes with pre-loaded ESXI and it should work ?
View ArticleRe: VSA Hardware
You can check HCL in URL: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/12/major-hcl-changes-for-the-vsphere-storage-appliance-vsa.html.
View ArticleRe: Failure of RDM mapping of local SATA storage
Does anyone have any thoughts on troubleshooting this? Is there more information I can provide? Thanks!
View ArticleRe: Increase IOPS for a Single VM
Thanks for your reply, Yeah i had overprovisioned the VM space on the Datastore.. Now i have moved the VM which is facing the issue with IOPS to another Datastore with less VM running on it. Am...
View ArticleRe: Failure of RDM mapping of local SATA storage
RDMs are for use against remote storage local. what exactly are you trying to do?
View ArticleVAAI and VM VDisks performance
Hi,Apart from VM management operations such as cloning, migrating, creating vDisks, etc... should VAAI affect also the performance once the VM is created and configured? In my case I am performing a...
View ArticleRe: Failure of RDM mapping of local SATA storage
Hi Tom. This is for my home and my lab and I'm out of money to buy another box to set up remote storage. I'm going to use the drives to store data for the VM's I'm using. I've seen a number of people...
View ArticleOptimizing NFS performance with vSphere 5.1 using Oracle Sun ZFS Appliance
Hi all, Would like to get input from members of the forum on optimizing NFS performance for vSphere 5.1. Performance has been good but I haven't found a lot of shared knowledge around Oracle Sun ZFS...
View ArticlevSphere disk size on iSCSI SAN
Hello, I've installed version 5.1 and going to be using VMWare View also. I see in the doucmentation that there is still a 2TB disk size but also seen conflicting reports on that. I've tested it and I...
View ArticleRe: VAAI and VM VDisks performance
The basic three VAAI primitives handle: Atomic Test & Set (ATS), which is used during creation of files on the VMFS volumeClone Blocks/Full Copy/XCOPY, which is used to copy dataZero Blocks/Write...
View ArticleRe: vSphere disk size on iSCSI SAN
Hi, If you are talking about VMFS datastore now we support 64 TB http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf If you are talking about virtual disk, Virtual disk size...
View ArticleRe: vSphere disk size on iSCSI SAN
2TB minus 512 bytes is the maximum size of a vmdk in the vmfs5, if you create more than 2 tb it wont recognize,what is your objective?if the vm wants more than 2 TB just add other vmdk and create...
View ArticleRe: VAAI and VM VDisks performance
Thanks for you answer. But in the case of the Write Same primitive, imagine that you are using a thin VDisk over a thin LUN and then you are using a write intensive application on the VM which uses...
View ArticleRe: vSphere disk size on iSCSI SAN
Thanks. My object is hopefully not have many disks and just create one big disk. or maybe fewer larger disks. Gary
View ArticleRe: VAAI and VM VDisks performance
Yes, if the VM is thin and write intensive applications cause rapid expansion of the disk, then the primitive could be triggered.
View ArticleHow to Isolate iSCSI NW From Managment NW ESXi 5.X
I have Installed ESXi 5.0. By default there is a vmkenel & vm network Port Groups are present, with vswitch0 & vmnic0 I have Created one more vmkenel Port with new vSwith1 & vmnic1 for...
View ArticleRe: How to Isolate iSCSI NW From Managment NW ESXi 5.X
welcome to community Now My Question is how that SAN Identifies the iSCSI Port Group ..? you need to enable the software iscsi adapter in the esxi storage adapters, then you need to give the openfiler...
View ArticleRe: Slow iSCSI Performance - Nimble Storage CS220
We have an alomst identical issue with ESXi 5.1 & Nimble cs220's - slow iscsi performance and high latency 400ms + We spent past 48 hrs doing a loop between Nimble, Cisco and finally vmware. Each...
View ArticleRe: How to Isolate iSCSI NW From Managment NW ESXi 5.X
Thanks a lot for the Responce ... I have Configured the iSCSI Port Bind. and I Achieved the Multipathing ...Thing is i have below three vmkernel ports, vmkernel0 = Management & vMotion Nwvmkernel1...
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