esxtop and VMWare performance showing IOPs higher than storage rating?
I guess I'm not the only one, we've had some interesting problems over the last few weeks so now I'm actually learning about the storage, IOPs etc! The monitoring of our P2000 is fairly poor, I can't...
View ArticleRe: High Availability without Shared Storage
Hi Scott Do you have VSA included in your license? If believe its now EOL and vSAN is the replacement, When I first looked at vSAN I found it quite an expensive solution for licensing and server grade...
View ArticleRe: Incorrect "Used Storage" reported - ESX 5.5
Hi Vincent, Both you and VMware are correct in regards to this situation, firstly your storage is not supported for the ESXi 5.5, But you were right with the thought the incorrect "used storage" does...
View ArticleRe: iscsi : How to remove the iscsi software adapter ?
To disable your hardware iSCSI adapters, you'll likely need to reboot your hosts, watch the boot process, and press a key sequence (like Ctrl+S or Ctrl+Q)) when you see your iSCSI network card come up....
View ArticleCreating a New Datastore Cluster
Hello, Can I move a datastore into a Datastore Cluster while its still hosting VMs? I have not been able to find information on this. Everything I find on Datastore Clusters talks about new...
View ArticleHP MSA 2040 multipathing
Hello everyone, Recently we have purchased HP MSA 2040 FC SAN. SAN came with dual controllers. each controller has 4 ports. we have configured it with 2 LUNs. currently we connected all controller...
View ArticleRe: Creating a New Datastore Cluster
You can move datastore into Datastore Cluster without any downtime and while VMs are running on it. (It is as same as you are putting host into cluster, while VMs are running.)
View ArticleRe: iscsi : How to remove the iscsi software adapter ?
I have dell720xd, it has broadcom network adpater which is shown as iscsi adatper.its not used as iscsi adater, but its used in , vds. Yes we have FC for shard storage
View ArticleRe: HP MSA 2040 multipathing
Check with your Storage vendor for the recommended multipath policy. It will depend on your firmware as well as the version of ESXi you are using. ESXi host will detect your storage and and will set a...
View ArticleRe: iscsi : How to remove the iscsi software adapter ?
also i was looking for a powercli to disable/remove it, so it was in powrcli section
View ArticleRe: Creating a New Datastore Cluster
Thank you very much. The Host reference was an excellent one.
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Re: HP MSA 2040 multipathing
Hi Rommel,Thanks for info. HP MSA 2040 support Round Robin. they also provide reference architecture for VMware . on that architecture design they only used single port on each controller . but we...
View ArticleRe: HP MSA 2040 multipathing
With Round Robin, what basically happens is by default 1000 I/O's will be sent to 1 path, then next 1000 I/O's to the next path, and so on... and such on a round robin fashion. I believe HP is...
View ArticleRe: VMware ESXi 5.5 U1 configuration with QNAP TS-870 using iSCSI
CZAMP, Thank you for the information. This helped a LOT!! I have set my system up to address the QNAP TS-870 via NFS until this is resolved. Luke
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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?
hi stuvstuv, thats an interesting question. i would like to have an explanation too
View ArticleVAAI comes under Storage API or vsphere API
Dear Team, Quickly wants to check if I want use VAAI so in VMware license what I required vSphere API or Storage API so that I can use VAAI. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleRe: VAAI comes under Storage API or vsphere API
Hi, You need Enterprise license, please check vSphere Editions, What is vSphere? Leading Virtual Infrastructure | VMware India -Arunhttps://twitter.com/arunpandehttp://highoncloud.blogspot.in/About...
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Re: VAAI comes under Storage API or vsphere API
Thanks Arun, I know it's required enterprise license, just want to know VAAI comes under "storage API" or "vSphere API" regardsMr VMware
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Storage APIs -Arunhttps://twitter.com/arunpandehttp://highoncloud.blogspot.in/About VMware Virtualization on NetApp
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