Differences in provisioned disk space
Hi, I'm relatively new to VMware and am having some trouble understanding how provisioned space works in that I see several different numbers listed for the same VM that differ greatly. I'm trying to...
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Hello and welcome to the communities. Do you have snapshots on this VM?
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Thank you for the fast reply! Yes it does appear that we have about 5 snapshots of the current VM I am looking to replicate. So is that to say that if you configured a VM for 100GB of space in the...
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Change in the IOPS limit calculation between 5.1 and 5.5
Hi everybody, Some of my users complained about degraded performances after I migrated the host from 5.1 to 5.5. After a bit of poking around, I just had to remove the IOPS limits in order to restore...
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Yes, each snapshot can consume the same amount of space as the base disk.
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That makes sense. Didn't think of that when I was over here scratching my head wondering why they were so different. Thanks for your help!
View ArticleRe: Need advice about EMC Celerra VSA
These links no longer work. Does anyone know where else we could download this from? Even if it is the original VSA(not tweaked).
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.5 datastore on SSD gives poor performance
Can you please attach your IOMeter config file?
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I can do it, but there should be nothing different between the test that give me 300K IOPS to the test giving 70K. it's the same configuration.
View ArticleNFS VAAI cloned vmdk with different checksum
A strange observation during VAAI clone: 1. Two ubuntu vms (vm_src1, vm_src2) were created on the same nfs datastore.2. One additional disk attached to those vm in two different way: i. vm_src1...
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Friends, I know that we cannot do a svMotion if we do not have a vCenter server.What are the alternate ways to go about it. I found a blog in...
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Hi, yes this will work just fine, if all the files of the VM are in this one folder. If you have multiple vmdks, on different datastores and want to move them all, it will get a bit more complicated. Tim
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Thanks Tim... By the way, Can I use any eval license for vCenter.? Will it cause any licensing issue for the ESXi? -Rahul
View ArticleOccasional iSCSI path failure
I have an ESXi 5.1 host that uses two NICs bounds to an iSCSI software initiator to connect to two separate storage arrays: array A and array B. Every few hours, I will see this series of events in the...
View ArticleConcurrent svMotions
Folks,I have to migrate as many as 100 Vms to another datastore. And the throughput I am getting at the moment is terrible over a 4 Gbps SAN.Can I schedule multiple storage vmotions at a time? For...
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The Maximum's say you can do 8 at a time. With both 5.1 and...
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Thanks.. Can I kick off multiple at a time. I know they will show as in Progress under task pane.. Will that cause any performance problems to the "in progress" vms?
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Do 8 at a time so you don't see failed attempts. And it does not impact your current vMotions
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.5 datastore on SSD gives poor performance
And you are using Paravirtual SCSI Controller?
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