Re: HP MSA 2040 multipathing
Hello,as commented before, the best option is always checking the best practices of this SAN for Vmware. HP for this SAN recommends using round robin with 1 I/O's Based in my experience, using this...
View ArticleRe: VAAI comes under Storage API or vsphere API
VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI), also referred to as hardware acceleration or hardware offload APIs, are a set of APIs to enable communication between VMware vSphere ESXi™ hosts...
View ArticleRe: Creating a New Datastore Cluster
Also, If you want to remove datastore cluster, you can just right click and remove. It will not remove datastore attached to host like host cluster. You can add either all VMFS or all NFS datastores...
View ArticleRe: Storage imp log file.
Incase of 5.x hosts : /var/log/vmkernel.log/var/log/vmkwarning.log/var/log/vobd.log Incase of 4.x : check /var/log/messages | grep -i vmkernel Also verify with the command for the storage latency :...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Update 1 and PowerPath VE 5.9.1
Hi VMware community, I googled for this for an hour and didn't find a firm answer- is PowerPath VE 5.9.1 support with ESXi 5.5 Update 1? I assume that it is, but I just want to find it stated somewhere...
View ArticleRe: Move virtual maschine to one disk only
Yes, Snapshot for OS disk only would be small. Also if you want to relocate all virtual disk to one largest datastore, you can create datastore cluster add all these 3 datastore to the datastore...
View ArticleRound robin does not work
Hello, The scenario:I have two freshly installed ESXI 5.5 machines, both are connected with dual mini-scsi cables (one per controller) each host from my HP G3 SAS MSA Storage, which is also freshly...
View ArticleRe: Round robin does not work
switch to Round RobinChange path to storage to Round Robin from Most Recent used Please see above posts if these are of any help to you. I will come back tomorrow with more insight into it.
View ArticleDatastore spanning multiple LUNs
Hello - I'm doing some research for a potential proof of concept we're looking into. However before we purchase storage for the PoC, I want to make sure I fully understand the underlying technology....
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Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware vSphere™ Storage
View ArticleRe: Datastore spanning multiple LUNs
Hello,Please check the following Blog (very good one) http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/02/vmfs-extents-are-they-bad-or-simply-misunderstood.html There are lot of considerations that needs to be...
View ArticleNumber of files can stored on VMFS5 datastore
Dear team, request u to let me know the number of files can be stored at VMFS 5 regardsMr VMware
View ArticleRe: Number of files can stored on VMFS5 datastore
Hey, according to the 5.5 configurations maximums: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf The max files per VMFS 5 volume is about 130.690 RegardsTim
View ArticleFormatting fails when volume is on a a NAS
Here is the situation:vSphere 5.1Synology NAS on the network.Client VM is Windows 2012 x64I created a 100GB VHD for the VM on the NAS:Thick Provision Lazy ZeroedIndependent, PersistentI then went into...
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Re: Round robin does not work
Thanks for the answer.What's peculiar is that if I go through the client I see round robin with both multipaths and under no circumstance will it switch to the other interface. If I manually set the...
View ArticleRe: Round robin does not work
This may be because there has not been enough traffic to cause a path switch: From: VMware KB: Multipathing policies in ESXi 5.x and ESXi/ESX 4.x The Round Robin (RR) multipathing policies have...
View ArticleDeleted space reclamation on thin provisioned VMFS datastores
Hi There, We are managing four VMware ESXi 5.0 hosts and VSC 4.2 installed in our vCenter Server. 2TB Thin LUN provisioned from NetApp FAS3240 controller. We used around 1.5TB of data earlier and now...
View ArticleRe: Deleted space reclamation on thin provisioned VMFS datastores
You should no need to schedule downtime. However, make sure you are well aware of the command's impact, and also consider carefully what percentage you are going to specify. Unless already done, read...
View ArticleRe: Deleted space reclamation on thin provisioned VMFS datastores
Hi, I would recommend that you do this reclamation after business hours when there is minimum downtime, also note that you are using ESXi 5.0 and there were some issues that were reported w.r.t. to...
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