Re: vmx and logs gone for Virtual Machine
>>> Or I should be worried about the vmdks consistency?Less about the consistency, but more about the missing header/descriptor .vmdk files! It looks like someone tried to delete the VM's...
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Re: vmx and logs gone for Virtual Machine
Thanks André yeah I have a recovered the VM but I cannot use it for production since is like 6 days old but it has all the files well I mean it has the .vmx but about vmdk header/descriptor, you mean I...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
First off, I'll say that I work for Tegile and as previously pointed out, several Tegile employees did come from Compellent after the Dell acquisition as did I. TegileI'm biases on the reliability, so...
View ArticleRe: Configuring ISCSI multipathing with Equallogic MEM
Check the KB article: VMware KB: Storage Views multipath calculation "Software iSCSI has one adapter, which is bound to the VMkernel interfaces, and the esxcfg-mpath -l command shows 2 paths. You will...
View ArticleLUN Device path policy issue
Hi, all: I found couple DataStore LUN path policy is showed different between GUI and command line. 1. From GUI, Configuration | Storage | Device, find device and click "Manage Path" 2. From ESXi...
View ArticleRe: Horrible iSCSI performance - ESXi 5.5 + Storwize V7000
Did you find a solution to this ?
View ArticleDeduplication and Provisioning Recommendation
Hello, I am looking for some direction regarding provisioning at the VMware level with a De-duplicated LUN on the array level. Currently, we have a de-duplicated thin provisioned LUN on our VNX5200. We...
View ArticleRe: Deduplication and Provisioning Recommendation
What you explaining is thin-on-thin and dedupe! So fairly risky to be honest....
View ArticleConfusion on LUN Numbering
Hi I have a question on LUN numbering, We have Fibre Attached hosts to an EMC VNX 5500 I am looking at our existing setup and just getting a feel as i need to create some new LUNs shortly and i'm new...
View ArticleRe: Confusion on LUN Numbering
A production LUN on a VNX storage system has two LUN-IDs, an internal LUN-ID as well as a Host-LUN-ID. The Host-LUN-ID is the one you can define when you present the LUN to a host, i.e. add the LUN to...
View ArticleRe: Confusion on LUN Numbering
Hi Andre So when you create a new LUN and you get the option to specify the LUN ID that is the internal LUN ID and can be higher than 255 Then when you add the LUN to a storage group to present it to...
View ArticleRe: Confusion on LUN Numbering
I don't know the LUN number maximums by heart. However, I'm not aware of a 255 ID limit. The only limit on the ESXi host that I'm aeware of, is the total number of LUNs per host, which must not exceed...
View ArticleError adding Datastore to Cluster
"A specified parameter was not correct. datastore.info.type" This is an iSCSI connected Synology. I'm sure it's a setting I've missed, can someone point me in the right direction? Using vSphere Client...
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Unable to unmount
Hi I'm unable to unmount a Datastore from an ESXi host. The Datastore successfully unmounted from 2 ESXi hosts but not the third one.There are no VMs on the Datastore, Storage I/O is disabled, it's not...
View ArticleRe: Unable to unmount
Only a thought. Did you previously have e.g. ISO images on this datastore? Maybe one of the VM's still points to it!? André
View ArticleRe: Error adding Datastore to Cluster
Nevermind, I found it. Different types. NAS vs VMFS. Sigh.
View ArticleRDM LUNs
Hello I am trying hard to understanding why I am seeing RDM LUNs in the add storage section in vpshere client when they are already added in the VMs as Raw mapped disk.I assume once a LUN is added in...
View ArticleRe: RDM LUNs
Does this happen while logged in to vCenter Server, and/or is it the same when you login to the hosts directly?As you correctly assume, a LUN used as an RDM should not show up unless RDM filtering is...
View ArticleRe: RDM LUNs
Thanks André I think it could be the rdm filter setting. I just checked and I vcenter settings and config.vpxd.filter.rdmFilter; value is false. But I am wondering why do I see additional/different...
View ArticleRe: RDM LUNs
You should rescan all the esxi host to confirm you're not in stale state, storage filter should take care of this, but it looks like some of your esxi host are getting filters pushed down.
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