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Re: HP VSA 11.0 (2014) - Bad storage performance
Any news on this one?I'm on 10.5 yet and I'm seeing similar behaviour. 2 hosts: HP DL380running vsphere 5.116 disks per host. 10k RPM 450 GB 2.5inchOne HP VSA per host, 2 vCPU and 5 GB memory per VSA....
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I still have open support tickets with Dell, VMware, and HP. At this point-in-time, my best guess is that the problem is a VMware bug. HP has already indicated that they believe the issue is outside of...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
We moved from Compellent to Tegile last year. Tegile compression and dedupe work as advertised and its a solid product. It really shines with VM and in VDI implementations. If you're planning to throw...
View ArticleRe: DS size
In IT everything consists of Bits and Bytes, where a Bit can usually have one of two possible states, either zero ore one (on or off), thus base-2 (or Binary), and one Byte consists of 8 Bits.. The...
View ArticleRe: HP VSA 11.0 (2014) - Bad storage performance
no, there are no PVSCSI errors in my VSA vmware.log.This latency issue had been there from the first start. Tried it with 9.5, upgrade to 10.0, fresh installation of 10.5.HP assigned the case to some...
View ArticleRe: HP VSA 11.0 (2014) - Bad storage performance
Interesting. sounds like the VSA cluster network RAID traffic going through the VMware network stack is introducing the latency.
View ArticleNAS VAAI with IPv6
Hi,I'm looking for some instruction of how to use IPv6 with NAS VAAI. I have an issue when I enabled IPv6 on ESXi 5.5, my NAS VAAI Supported was set to NO. But I don't have any issue using IPv4--I...
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MSA2040 Enclosure Query
Just curious if it is normal to see the enclosure on LUN 0 showing up under Storage Adapters. I have an MSA2040 with Dual controllers patched to Brocade switches and 3 Vmhosts on those switches. For...
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I'm not a HP guy, but searching on Google, seems to be a normal behavior in some firmware levels, check the comments at this blog post: http://www.jpaul.me/?p=940&cpage=1#comments Anyway you can...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
How's the Tegiles reliability? Someone told me they have reliability issues with NFS and that's why Tegile pushes FC. I really want VM specific analytics which means NFS. The only problem I see with...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
codypetry wrote: How's the Tegiles reliability? Someone told me they have reliability issues with NFS and that's why Tegile pushes FC. I really want VM specific analytics which means NFS. The only...
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Spanned datastore - Is there way to find out on which specific LUN(s) resides...
vSphere SDK guide tells that: "If any of the LUNs within a VMFS volume fails or becomes unavailable, only virtual machines with data on that LUN are affected. All other virtual machines with virtual...
View ArticleRe: NAS VAAI with IPv6
I'm using EMCNasPlugin. My IPv6 on ESXi and NAS array are using the same subnet as well.
View ArticleWhats the best way to wipe old san
I recently upgraded our san from a Lefthand to 3Par. I don't want to scrap all of the drives. I would like to donate the old san to someone that could use it. It was only used for VMware ESX5.1. What...
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Check with Lefthand and see if they offer any utilities or services around this, but the approach you describe above is one I have used many times.
View ArticleRe: Whats the best way to wipe old san
I think you should contact the HP support for the proper way to do this, cause this is not VMware related, anyway you can check this thread for some guidance: Wiping a lefthand module - HP Enterprise...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
I like the Tintri based on my experience with it.I wrote my 2 cents about it here http://www.neeshanpeters.com/storage/tintri-datastores-a-customers-perspective Remember to look at the array as a whole...
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vmx and logs gone for Virtual Machine
hi guys I got a VM which is up and running but from vCenter View is inaccessible taking a look at the Datastore I see the Virtual Machine is missing .vmx file and logs files, so I already schedule a...
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