Thin Provision & Data Deduplication
Hi All, I have a 490GB datastore that I have attached as a Thin Provisioned disk to a VM running Windows Storage Server 2012. On the drive within the OS, I have enabled data deduplication. Of the...
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Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I've having the exact same problem. Last time it resulted in the hostd becoming unresponsive and having to restart the server by ILO. So anything you found...
View ArticleRe: VSAN: cannot add storage policy, VSAN option missing under "rule based on...
Hello, Erkan. I have the same problem and tried all scenarios but all of them were unsuccessful. The following error is occurred when I try to manually add storage provider when I use "https" in...
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It was a known issue, have you updated everything?
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Yes, everything is updated.
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Hello Konstantin, Which user name and password you use for related host while adding storage provider ? You have to use host's root account with password. You can find detailed link about same problem...
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Hello,I've experienced same problem with vsan config.I've tried to all 3 workaround mentioned on Release Notes but nothing changed.After long searching on Google I found a solution in vSphere 5.5...
View ArticleRe: Thin Provision & Data Deduplication
I dont think i'm entirely sure what your setup looks like. Is the 490GB a VMFS/NFS datastore or a thin provisioned VMDK file attched to a VM? Generally speaking, vSphere wont see any dedupe savings....
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Re: Deleted space reclamation on thin provisioned VMFS datastores
GMCON wrote: On the NetApp side are you doing volume snapshots? The problem is that if you have volume snapshots after you delete that data the space is not immediately freed up until those snapshots...
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Disable iSCSI Port Binding
I want to disable iSCSI Port Binding. Can I disable while VMs are active in the production environment, or do they need to be shut down? Have iSCSI Port Binding enabled on 4 NICs:
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Generally, no, the VMs don't have to be shutdown. The key is to ensure that your datastores will still have paths available when you remove two vmnics. Edit: I should be more specific. If you're...
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What might be more appropriate in this case, and likely show the dedupe savings you're looking for, is to use a vSphere RDM and present that to your storage server.
View ArticleRe: SATP/PSP Configurations
The default SATPs can change with ESXi versions. Are you running different versions? You can use VMware's interoperability matrix to see how ESXi versions match with your arrays. If you need to...
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It would be better if you use same across different versions of ESXi. Also as Mike said, every vendor recommend it.
View ArticleRe: Deleted space reclamation on thin provisioned VMFS datastores
Hello GMCON and Gav0, There is no volume level snapshot configured. We have configured SMVI snapshots on VM level. Please note that, we have enabled SIS (deduplication) on respective volume.
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The disk space required for the thin provisioned virtual disk depends on the demands of the guest OS. Each time the guest OS writes to a previously unused block on its partition, ESXi will allocate the...
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If you are reproduce this issue consistently, I suggest you to contact VMware support. I did not see this issue in my environment
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RAID card for Mac Pro 5.1 internal hard drives.
I want to install ESXi on a Mac Pro 5.1 using the internal drives (DAS). This works just fine, but when it comes to creating a RAID on the internal drives there are some issues. I need help to find a...
View ArticleRe: P2000 G3 FC Disk Latency ESXi 5.5
Firmware issue with the Emulex hba’s I’d recommend opening a case with Emulex and request to escalate to engineering for review
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