Re: Storage VS Storage
Hey Jazsko, why not VSan? Also we've been looking at a new solution as well to replacing our aging HP Lefthands. We have almost exactly the same environment you havel. Three ESXi 5.1 hosts on 3 Dell...
View ArticleRe: FC and with ISCSI
You can use both protocols for separate LUNs, but mixing FC and iSCSI access with the same LUN is not supported by VMware. Not on a single host and not between hosts in a cluster. Each LUN should only...
View ArticleVirtual MSCS setup with RDM
Folks, I am in need of some info on RDM configuration in a MSCS cluster. I have to migrate the RDM LUNs from CS to VNX. I am trying to understand the information I need to document in order to avoid...
View ArticleRe: Running into an issue where vSphere host cannot see datastore but can...
The situation has changed; the datastores are now visible but inaccessible. Each time a rescan or unmount is performed on the datastore, the ESXi hosts becomes unresponsive. So, the issue has...
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When you do a rescan, does any of the host not responding. ?
View ArticleRe: Running into an issue where vSphere host cannot see datastore but can...
Yes, after an 1/2 hour or so, the host will disconnect and cannot be connected after a few hours.
View ArticleIdeal iSCSI setup
We are slowness and I am fairly new to using SANs so I would like some help with this. First off, I think we just have too many DBs on too few disks, but I would like to focus on our iSCSI connection....
View ArticleRe: Running into an issue where vSphere host cannot see datastore but can...
Ok, so I think there is also a hostd dump which will be created , so we need to analysis the hostd dumps why is it crashing. Please do let me know if you need anything.
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Re: Storage VS Storage
Hi Ted, Thanks for your replay. We have also placed Nimble as a number one. So far EQL is on second and EMC on third place. Read a lot about Nimble on the net, very few negative responses. Many people...
View ArticleRe: Running into an issue where vSphere host cannot see datastore but can...
After some discussions with our storage vendor, it may be a matter of disabling vaai and hardware acceleration. Which would explain why we never had problems with 4.1. Ill post my results once I make...
View ArticleRe: VMFS5 local data store input/output error
This issue is resolved.Thanks to communities for not replying, which made me to solve this problem myself /virt4
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and PowerPath VE 5.9.1
I found this in my google search for a support matrix:https://support.emc.com/docu37425_Simple-Support-Matrix-Vmware-vSphere-5.x.pdf?language=en_US I am now stuck on the question if powerpath/VE 5.8...
View ArticleThin Provisioned Disks - Converted and Per Hard disk
I'm finally starting to cautiously use Thin Provisioned Disks. 1 - Let's say I created a VM with a Thick Provisioned Lazy Zero Hard disk. It's been running for some time now (data being written) but...
View ArticleRe: Thin Provisioned Disks - Converted and Per Hard disk
1.) With converting a thick disk to a thin disk, all the used (non-zeroed) blocks will consume disk space in the target. You could use e.g. sdelete to zero out unused disk space from within the guest...
View ArticleESXI 5.5 HP EVA 8400
ESXI 5.5 U1 with current HP VMware patches including recent OpenSSL release to resolve the PSOD issue from the HPSA Driver. Runing on 460 Gen 8 blades 40 gb fiber all blade chassie firmware and bios...
View ArticleRe: ESXI 5.5 HP EVA 8400
>>> Command View says I have 4 TB left and VMware shows 44 TB.With thin LUNs presented to the ESXi hosts, the provisioned LUN size shows up in vSphere. Unless there's a storage plugin...
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Re: ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and PowerPath VE 5.9.1
When looking up your storage model on the VMware HCL isn't there any info on supported Powerpath versions? Example: /Rubeck
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Re: ESXI 5.5 HP EVA 8400
Thanks Andre! Just off that my DRS of 26 LUNS would show this BUT when I go to Command View and total up the LUNS I am no where near that.
View ArticleRe: ESXI 5.5 HP EVA 8400
To find out what's going on, please compare the EVA LUN sizes on the ESXi hosts that you see in "Storage Adapters" with the LUNs presented to the ESXi host in Command View. André
View ArticleRe: VSAN: cannot add storage policy, VSAN option missing under "rule based on...
I saw all the same symptoms and tried one of the workarounds. Didn't try manually adding storage providers. Ultimately, rebooting the vCenter server corrected the issue.
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