Adding new iscsi sessions through esxcli
I have a distributed storage system with Nodes A and B, each presenting the same SCSI target. I performed dynamic discovery by giving the IP address for Node A and gave it port 3260 to communicate...
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That read count is possible if you have a working set that fits in cache and its 100% read. The write performance does seem low, but that can be impacted by a huge number of things: 1) Improper R/W...
View ArticleESXi host generating tons of read requests per second
Hello, I have been struggling with this for hours/days/weeks. Tried many different approaches to searching google and the vmware forums. But I'm not finding an answer. I hope someone can provide me...
View ArticleRe: How to Isolate iSCSI NW From Managment NW ESXi 5.X
Thanks for the Responce ... After Configuring the iSCSI Port Binding with 2 vmkernel Ports ..Total Paths Become 3 (Inc with Mangament NW vmkenel0) After Re-Boot Of ESXi Host ..Now Showing only 2 Patchs...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion won't move custom rom
Hi All, I'm currently facing the same issue with the same ROM-File. ESXi 4.1.0 874690vCenter 4.1.0 345043 Are there any workarounds beside adding this ROM-File to all Datastores?
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion won't move custom rom
Apparently you can define a central repository for your custom ROMs. See http://gregcarriger.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/vmware-oem-bios-fix/ I don't use custom ROMs but was curious what the workaround...
View ArticleSAN storage pools for Clustered VMWare enviroment
I'm working on setting up our new SAN unit and I was wondering if there were any "best practices" for doing this for a VMWare clustered enviroment. I'm going to have 3 host servers in a cluster sharing...
View ArticleRe: SAN storage pools for Clustered VMWare enviroment
Note: Discussion successfully moved from Enterprise Strategy & Planning to VMware vSphere™ Storage There are certainly best practices available - What vendor/type of SAN are you working with?
View ArticleRe: SAN storage pools for Clustered VMWare enviroment
Sorry I posted this in the wrong place. We have a EMC VNXe3150 Unit with about 18TB of usable data. Thanks
View ArticleRe: SAN storage pools for Clustered VMWare enviroment
Take a look at the VNXe / vSphere techbook:...
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Thanks mcowger, thats exactly what I was looking for.
View ArticlePerformance Data for VM Disks
Hi,I'm seeing a lots of IOPs and High Read Latency on the RDM Mapping which contains the vRDM Mapper. Is this latency normal? Or something wrong with my SAN Storage? This VM has Repository LUNs as vRDM...
View Articlebcm5709 not present as storage controller
Hello all, I have been googling around at this and trying different things over the past two days without much luck... I have one esxi 5.0 host with a dual-port Broadcom BCM5709C NIC card added in...
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Hi Peter, two models of BCM95709A0907G exist as you can see here: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q10-20100411-broadcom.pdf (Figure 1).The firts supports iSCSI boot only, the second...
View ArticleRe: SAN storage pools for Clustered VMWare enviroment
Hi timstumbo Yes it's best to create separate pools for your VMware host and any physical servers you may still have What sizes drives do you have and how many do you have Cheers David
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Re: bcm5709 not present as storage controller
Hi vlho, I looked all over the place and couldn't find a document that defined that. Looks like you have the magic touch. It bothers me that they have two models with the same broadcom...
View ArticleRe: SAN storage pools for Clustered VMWare enviroment
I have 20 900GB 10K SAS Drives. I'm going to have about 10 VMs including application terminal servers running on 3 ESXi host. I'm probably going to set these up in a cluster so I can VMotion the VM's....
View ArticleRe: SAN storage pools for Clustered VMWare enviroment
Also, the VNXe3150 has an option for setting up storage for Exchange, should I use that feature? I will also have one very large SQL database that supports our document application that might be worth...
View ArticleRe: Failure of RDM mapping of local SATA storage
It ended up working. I was running the command from the wrong directory under /vmfs/volumes. Both my drives are available to FreeNAS. Life is good!
View ArticleRe: Use Qnap NAS for VM production storage?
Have you is boxes now in production? ThanksHenri
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