iSCSI target configuration and data stores in VMware 5.5U1
I am working inside of my home lab where I have setup a CentOS 6.5 box to serve as an iSCSI target. The current configuration shows:[root@localhost ~]# tgtadm --lld iscsi --op show --mode targetTarget...
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Turned out to be an issue with tgtd. I actually had to reboot the server to get the exports to properly work -- the normal 'service tgtd restart' command was leaving some sort of artifacts around that...
View ArticleNFS path redundancy active/standby failover
Hi I am trying to setup a redundant connection to our NFS storage. I came to the conclusion that the best way to enable this is by creating a NFS VMK (on it's one subnet and un-routable VLAN) on a...
View ArticleRe: Round robin does not work
From what I can see I only have one active path which makes no sense. I have done a similar setup in a test environment and there I see two working paths. test...
View ArticleTegile HA2130 Eval & Question on All Flash Tegile
I'm currently evaluating a Tegile HA2130+J2130. I'm seeing great compression when selecting the Virtual Servers project settings. My VMs compress/de-dupe at 56% and my MSSQL VMs are even higher at...
View ArticleVolume Alarm
Just curious where i might need to start looking to track down the reason for the alarm i'm receiving. Vcenter says I have 780GB free on a 1TB volume but yet teh alarm is getting triggered. Looked at...
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What kind of alarm you're receiving ? Datastore usage on Disk ? Have you checked the ESXi host events ?
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Re: Failed to execute createHOMObj for the Setup : No GuestOS section in XML...
If the ESX servers are not added as FQDN's intot he vCenter, you will hit the issue. Or may be after hitting the issue I added my ESX hosts as FQDN names and the test work fine. Hope that helps
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Volume disk space. And there is plenty available. Thanks for the reply!!
View ArticleRe: vSphere RDMs VS NPIV
I recommend RDMs over NPIV. Please have a look at the following blog posts and see if this helps. FitProgrammer@Work: Using NPIV port for RDM disk access in VMware vSphere...
View ArticleRe: Tegile | Tintri | Compellent - Evaluating for next SAN refresh
Tegile is likely to be our choice. They offer an amazing price point for what they give you. Their systems have full redundancy, can operate on any protocol, can be all flash or hybrid. I'm testing...
View ArticleHard disk space showing in Disk management but not Server manager or explorer
HiI am running a server 2012 r2 vm that has two hard disks assigned hard disk 1 thick provisioned lazy zeroed 100gb runnins the OS which isnt a problem, andHard disk 2 thin provision originally created...
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Try extend the filesystem using diskpart: https://blog.mrpol.nl/2013/08/16/after-partition-extend-file-system-displays-wrong-disk-size-in-windows/
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Thanks mate exactly the problem
View ArticleNimbus Data | Has anyone used them?
Just wondering since the price on an all flash 12TB-raw dual controller system seems amazing. I know they have been in business since 2006 and have read mixed reviews online. Thanks!
View ArticleRe: LSI SMI-S causing high latency?
Hi, I just installed a Dell R610 with PERC H700 512MB and BBU, 4x 146GB SAS Drives in RAID5.Running ESXi 5.5 update 2 from 09-09-2014.FW versions could be outdated (3 years old). Write speed is POOR!!...
View ArticleHow do I enable Software FCoE Adapter with Intel 82599EB apapter? - Option is...
I am trying to set up an FCoE software adapter for an Intel 82599EB 10Gb CNA. I have created a vSwitch with a kernel port bound to the nic and then tried to add the software adapter, but the option is...
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If your NIC adapter is really a CNA with FCoE offload, you don't need create an FCoE software adapter, just look for vmhba on storage adapters list.
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It does not show in the storage adapters list. The nic is as follows: ARK | Intel® 82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller It is basically the same as an Intel x520 and I am following this:...
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Can you tell me your hardware vendor/model and version of ESXi.
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