Re: Parallel svMotions
Hi Rahul, Please refer below bullet points:Migration of powered-on virtual machines with snapshots cannot be performed in ESX/ESXi 3.x and ESX/ESXi 4.x. You must either delete the snapshots or power...
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I do not have any ESXi 4 U3 environment for testing. If it says you require ESXi 4 U3 then there is no option but at-least upgrade to ESXi 4 U3. That KB must be updated by VMware .You can comment on...
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yes.The only option apart from upgrading would be to delete the snapshots and migrate.-Rahul
View ArticleRe: Mapped Raw LUN issue - I can't increase the size.
Hello André, Thanks for getting back to me. That is a great pointer, and I know how to find the LUN it is on and increase that. Once it is increased though, how do I go about increasing the size of the...
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After increasing the size of the RDM on the storage, rescan the storage from each ESXi host. Then use the utilities of the native OS on the VM that the RDM is assigned to to increase the size of the...
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Thanks for the quick response vmroyale. So went into my NetApp system manager, found the volume/LUN that want to increase, and increased it to 100GB. First I went to volumes, found the correct one and...
View ArticleESX 5.5 datastore on SSD gives poor performance
Hi, I have seen a strange behavior that maybe somebody can explain: I have a PCI-E SSD which when attached to a physical windows server gives about 400K IOPS. When using the same SSD on ESX 5.5 windows...
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First question: how do you measure IOPS?
View ArticleRe: Mapped Raw LUN issue - I can't increase the size.
I think you are mixing up the RAW LUNs used as RDMs and LUNs used for VMFS datastores. In case of an RDM you need to increase the RDM LUN, not the VMFS (datastore) LUN.In addition to this an RDM is...
View ArticleWhy shouldn't one use NMP/round robin MPIO with MSCS in ESXi < 5.5?
Could someone out there explain to me why MSCS doesn't work well with round robin NMP on ESXi < v5.5? Best explanation I've seen is that each path is "seen" differently by the guest OS and so it...
View ArticleRe: NPIV question - nested esxi
where you able to get the WWNs loged in the SAn Switch? I am trying to achive the same for ESXi 5.5
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Hmm, I don’t think so. I’m seeing the physical hosts WWN’s but not the NPIV vm ones… The WWN’s for the esx vms are 28:12:00:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cid:image001.png@01CF7BF3.3605C190 I think I’ll need to...
View ArticleRe: vmotion of VMs wit RDMs
Hi My question is slightly similar but more to do with Storage VMotion. I am currently in the process of migrating to a new NetAPP storage device. We currently use a Fibre connected Hitachi AMS...
View ArticleRe: Why shouldn't one use NMP/round robin MPIO with MSCS in ESXi < 5.5?
As per Cormac Hogan: In the past, round robin path policy could not be supported on shared storage in MSCS. This was due to the inability to release SCSI reservations on certain paths when the...
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Re: Incorrect "Used Storage" reported - ESX 5.5
Well, this story is not at the end yet... The problem is still here, only on the vsphere client, it vanished on the web client. As you can see here, the Used space is correct (1.05 TB) But it is not...
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Hi All, VMware is aware of this problem and working on it. if you have the same situation in your environment please have a SR raised with VMware to get an update or status on the same. Thanks,Avinash
View ArticleRe: Why shouldn't one use NMP/round robin MPIO with MSCS in ESXi < 5.5?
Thanks, Chris. Very helpful.
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