3PAR Service Processor location - Best Practice opinions sought
HP 3PAR has created a bit of a "damned of you do..." situation with regard to its Service Processor (which is available as a physical and/or Virtual Appliacne for VMware). In directly conflicting...
View ArticleRe: Is "Router on a Stick” the rigth solution to overcome an iSCSI storage...
You don't need to "route" iSCSI traffic to use VLAN's. Just create a Virtual Machine Port Group on the same VLAN as iSCSI and you will be good to go! vSwitch 0VM NetworkVM1VM2VM3Management Networkvmk0:...
View ArticleDecided on: Compellent SC4020 all-flash array
I've decided to go with an all-flash Compellent array. I got a great deal on a SC4020 with 1 x 6 pack SLC and 3 x 6 pack of eMLC (32 TB raw)! If Dell can continue to offer the deal they gave me to...
View ArticleQuestions about LUN Space Reclaimation
Greetings! I have a few questions for you guys. I have been studying how the reclamation of deleted blocks occurs on a given datastore. While I get the commands to do this ("vmkfstools -y" in 5.0/5.1...
View ArticleRe: Questions about LUN Space Reclaimation
1) It really depends on the SAN. You have to find out if it's thin provisioned on the SAN. My older Hitachi's don't do this so it's all thick on the SAN (it would use all 600 GB if you carved a 600...
View ArticleRe: Questions about LUN Space Reclaimation
Unfortunately, this doesn't quite help. 1. The SAN (an HP 3Par) supports thin provisioning.2. I'm not talking about a VMDK file. I'm talking about a VMFS Datastore.3. I'm not talking about Windows or...
View ArticleRe: Questions about LUN Space Reclaimation
1. If the datastore is 600GB and shows 100GB free in vSphere, is the full 600GB shown as allocated on the SAN?It depends, if for example in certain time you utilized 550GB on datastore and deleted...
View ArticleRe: After using 30 days SSD as adatastore suddenly SSD displaying as a device
"I haven't seen that error before to be honest. However... some follow up questions: Do you have logging enabled on your host?(advanced settings -> syslog -> syslog.global.logdir)Have you viewed...
View ArticleRe: Questions about LUN Space Reclaimation
Thanks. Now I need to work with the SAN guy to make sure the space is actually reclaimed after being 0'd out. I appreciate the insights!
View ArticleStorage strategy and VSAN
Hello, I have a couple of questions that I cant seem to get a clear answer on, so I thought I would pitch it up to a more knowledgable crowd than I. I have a business where I host FileMaker databases...
View ArticleHP EVA 4400 support VSphere 5.5
Hello, Can somebody please let me know if they have been successful in getting an HP EVA 4400 to work with VShpere 5.5? When I check the VMware HCL, support for EVA 4400 ends at 5.1. Is this correct?...
View ArticleVAAI ESX bug
Is there a bug submission process for ESX bugs with VAAI? I've got an issue where XCOPY block sizes requested from ESX are larger than the hardware reports as supported in the SCSI Block Limits VPD...
View ArticleRe: Is local storage a viable option with VMware?
For posterity, the solution was to build a SAN with Windows Server 2012 and export "Storage Spaces" over iSCSI. This is a very affordable way to serve high-performance shared storage because they do...
View ArticleRe: Is local storage a viable option with VMware?
Oh, you must have missed VSAN then, its a very affordable storage solution using local disk.Storage Spaces is a joke compared to VSAN. // Linjo
View ArticleRe: Decided on: Compellent SC4020 all-flash array
That is a nice system. I have 3 SC8000 systems and I am hoping to grab one these 4020s with all Flash soon myself.
View ArticleRe: VAAI ESX bug
You will have to call VMware support, and once they confirm they can create a bug report.
View ArticleRe: Is local storage a viable option with VMware?
How so? For less than $3000 in hardware and a Microsoft Server 2012 Standard license, I was able to get 9 terabytes of 10GbE iSCSI that I'm peaking at 45,000 write iops and 21,000 read iops. Please...
View ArticleWhat is the proper way to add or remove HBA/storage connections using Brocade...
Hello experts,I will be adding a new EMC VNX5100 Dual SP FC Array to an existing VMware Cluster consisting of:==================================================- 3x VMware ESXi 5.1 hosts. Each hosts is...
View ArticleStorage Profiles
While trying to lab storage profiles in preparation for the vcap exam, I came across an issue. Using the VI client, I first enabled the VM storage profile, then created a storage capability named...
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Yesterday i was also having a similar problem, i hope someone can answer us.but i blame my readynas and thought it is not compatible at some level. 1. Do we use the new "Tag" feature in 5.5 and I...
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