Re: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
Have you looked at Skyera? If you want the cheapest all flash array then there are none cheaper than skyera nor as dense. Their price will blow away the competition, easily. If you are looking for...
View ArticleDesign: Good practice to share Datastore Cluster across clusters?
I have two large Compute Clusters that will have VMs provisioned by vCAC. Wondering if there are downsides of using a single large Datastore Cluster between clusters? I typically map a Datastore...
View ArticleRe: Design: Good practice to share Datastore Cluster across clusters?
Try this Connecting multiple DRS clusters to a single Storage DRS datastore cluster. - frankdenneman.nl
View ArticleRe: Unmounting a Datastore in ESX5.0
Thanks Vikas, For unmounting the RDM LUNs I believe I should go to conguration->storage->devices? RegardsRahul
View ArticleRe: Unmounting a Datastore in ESX5.0
Everything you need to know for unmounting is here VMware KB: Unmounting a LUN or detaching a datastore/storage device from multiple VMware ESXi 5.x hosts
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Thanks, Is there any way to do this step by GUI? I want to permanently decomm the device. Perform a rescan on all ESXi hosts which had visibility to the LUN. The device is automatically removed from...
View ArticleRe: Design: Good practice to share Datastore Cluster across clusters?
I have read that before and while it is good info, it doesn't talk about the potential issues with this design. -MattG
View ArticleVAAI for NAS - Test parameter information for NativeVMCVNetworkOutage and...
Folks, I have been working with VAAI for NAS certification tests, and unfortunately I got stuck in two questions of the test parameter information which are listed below. These questions are required...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
The skyEagle product sounds interesting. I'm having a call with them this afternoon. If they can actually deliver an all-flash array for the cost of disk they are already ahead of Pure. Pure says...
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Codypetry I sent you a PM as well if you dont mind responding to. Thanks.
View ArticleJumbo Frame on 1 Gig network
Hi,I am using iSCSI based shared storage setup on 1 Gig connectivity on Host,software iSCSI,physical switch and storage. Should I enable jumbo frame on all the connecting devices in order to have...
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Enable Jumbro Frames for IP storage is best practice, anyway you may take a look at the following link to see some considerations and test results about Jumbo Frames: Jumbo Frames Comparison Testing...
View ArticleIs "Router on a Stick” the rigth solution to overcome an iSCSI storage not...
Hello,we need to connect two VMware ESXi 5.5 hosts to a Buffalo TS III iSCSI storage (a TS-RIXL running firmware version 1.61).Basically, we need to present to a Veeam Backup & Replication VM...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
Jvor50, I looked into Skyera. They are actually way too costly. The skyEagle product is over $180K. They are doing the same thing Pure is. They claim $1.99/GB but that's ONLY for a maxed out...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
Skyera is 12TB for $48k, granted its 10GB and 1GB ethernet with one controller/switch but to my knowledge NO ONE offers 12TB useable FLASH before dedupe for $48k, then with skyera you can add on Dedupe...
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issue with vmdk's not showing
3HDD in total, running esxi and vsphere 5.1 500GB Hard Disk 1 - , running the 3 VM's3TB Red Nas Drive Hard Disk 2 - [Red1] New Virtual Machine/New Virtual...
View ArticleRe: issue with vmdk's not showing
Hello, Jamesson.My english is not good so I try to understand - you want to add existing vmdks to Win8 vm, but these disks already added to another vm? If so - you can use SCSI bus sharing to use disks...
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Re: issue with vmdk's not showing
Thanks for the reply Akopylov, As you can see in my 2nd VM (Temp Windows 8, pic below), all the same "New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine_1.vmdk (1.36TB)" etc are there. I do not use the vm's...
View ArticleRe: Jumbo Frame on 1 Gig network
Hi Sushil, From connectivity side you wont see any issue. first check that both your Ethernet interface and switch have support for Jumbo Frames.usually people enable jumbo frames for better...
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