Best Practice Setting up VNXe 3150
Hi Guys,I'm in the process of migrating from current AX to VNXe 3150 iSCSI SAN Storage. I'm wondering what are the best practices to implement this storage, Multipathing MPIO, default MRU, etc etc......
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Dear , I already checked before post but the question is about Smart Array P420i.On the HCL list is Smart Array P410i. Folks from HP told me that P420i will gonna work.I don't know what to do because...
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If the Smart Array P420i RAID controller is on the HCL for VSA then any server with this controller will work. You also need to ensure the RAID type 5, 6 or 10, and the number of disks 4, 6 or 8, are...
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Everything here is mostly still true: http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h8167-vmware-vsphere-vnxe-deployment.pdf
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small environment - how many datastores?
Hello. I am new to VMware and am building a relatively small virtual server environment - 2 ESXi hosts and probably 8-10 VM's. I have a storage array in a SAN with iSCSI, CIFS, NFS capability. The...
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Basically you can't go wrong here, I think. My instinct would be to create either 2 or three, though you almost certainly (assuming your array has reasonable performance/number of disks) also be fine...
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I would like to keep it simple as possible and that suggestion makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
View ArticleRe: small environment - how many datastores?
Please DONT do 1 big datastore - its a recipe for poor performance (every IO has to go through the same queue). Best performance will come from more datastores (I'd personally do 3-5).
View ArticleRe: VAAI and VM VDisks performance
Yes, thats what I thought but then, when performing the test it did not make any difference with VAAI activated.I am using Iometer. Could it be because of the .tst file that Iometer creates which takes...
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Well let's work this through. In larger environements, the rule of thumb has always been to keep the number of vms per datastore to between 8-12, keeping in mind that this is a gross guide and assumes...
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Part of the answer to your question is how the SAN is configured. If you have multiple RAID groups, disk groups, or aggregates or whatever your vendor calls them, then you can put 1 datastore on each...
View ArticleRe: VAAI and VM VDisks performance
Its actually probably because the performance difference of a thin disk compared to an EZT disk is very very small (sub 2%), and so very difficult to measure.
View ArticleRe: How to Isolate iSCSI NW From Managment NW ESXi 5.X
PCHANDU wrote: Is there any way to restrict vmkernel0 to access the SAN. Thanks in Advance ...... ESXi will stick to the vmkernels bound to iSCSI; remove vmk0 from iSCSI port binding. I would also...
View ArticleHow to link Vmware datastore name and EMC Symmetrix meta ID
Hello, I'm trying to create automated web report on disk usage, purposes, etc.My Vmware collegues are mapping large meta luns against their ESX hosts from Symmetrix and then give little chunks to VMs....
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EZT allocates and zeroes the disk at the beginning whereas thin provision neither allocates nor zeroes anything. Why does it not make any difference? My understanding is that, in a thin disk, everytime...
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Not seeing any replies other than yours. What was the resolution to this? Thanks
View ArticleRe: VAAI and VM VDisks performance
It does have an impact on performance - the ~2% I mentioned above. With VAAI, the process is just efficient enough to not have a significant impact.
View ArticleRe: EMC Storage and Performance
Hey mcowger, I have a VNX 5300 performance question. We just hooked up a new Cisco UCS system (over 10gb FCoE). I ran the benchmark from the SAN performance thread (link to my post here:...
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