Re: vCenter Server Hard Disks Eager or Lazy Zeroed?
Personally, I'd go for the eager zero. vCenter is pretty important, so you should protect its storage by allocating it up front. The last thing you want is to run out of space on your LUN and watch...
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vCenter itself doesn't need that much performance - you should focus more on the performance of the vCenter DB machine (which, for an environment your size, needs to be a second host/VM).
View ArticleLUN resizing and VM ratio per LUN
Greetings,I have a number of LUNs configured for a particular client. Three LUNs with different sizes host 50 VMs. These VMs can be anything from Web, file to SQL servers. Between those three LUNs,...
View ArticleRe: LUN resizing and VM ratio per LUN
I have always operated on the "rule of thumb" that a datastore should not contain more than between 8 - 12 VMs, and so I size my luns/datastores accordingly, taking into consideration the I/O nature of...
View ArticleRe: LUN resizing and VM ratio per LUN
this is really a tough question... and there is no exact rule how many vms per LUN and LUN size.. generally we can de the below - dont put multiple DB vms in one LUN- caculate the total IOPS ..that is...
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iscsi mulipathing (vmknic status not used)
Trying to understand how I can get both vmkernal nics to show active: This particular host isnt in production yet, and have gotten things to clear up by removing and readding in the past, but I'm not...
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Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware vSphere™ Storage What is your storage solution?
View ArticleRe: iscsi mulipathing (vmknic status not used)
Sorry about that, its an EMC VNXe 3150, two storage processors, four interfaces, two iscsi servers, two interfaces make up each server
View ArticleRe: iscsi mulipathing (vmknic status not used)
I have other hosts that are seeing the storage fine, and showing me my 4 paths, this particular host is just being an issue
View ArticleRe: iscsi mulipathing (vmknic status not used)
Get the properties for one of the datastores connected to this initiator, and then use the Manage Paths button to compare the setups. I'm guessing that round robin is used on the others....
View ArticleRe: no device on iSCSI target
Make sure your array is running the latest DSM code; previous revs of code had iSCSI issues with VMware ESXi 5.I've also had this happen on older DSM code and a restart of the array resolved it. You...
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thanks for the thought, but as of right now, everything is just using fixed, will certainly try though since this host isnt being used yet
View ArticleRe: vSphere migration from 1Gb NFS to 10Gb NFS
Hi tim_k, I am looking at the exact same scenario you ran into. Which option did you end up using? We're on vSphere 5.1 now, so I'm wondering if they are implemented anything to ease this process.
View ArticleFeature Request?
VMFS5 - maximumsVolume size 64TBRaw Device Mapping size (virtual compatibility) 2TB minus 512 bytes Allow virtual compatibility mode RDM's to have extents to attain a larger than 2TB size but allow...
View ArticleRe: Feature Request?
That request (which basically goes along with the desire to have >2TB VMDKs - they are the same problem) is one that I'm sure is already being worked.
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host with no local storage - how to install Dell Multipathing...
We are looking at upgrading our production ESXi 4.1 hosts with a clean install of ESXi 5.1. These hosts have no local storage. Whilst testing an installation in our lab on a host that does have local...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 host with no local storage - how to install Dell Multipathing...
Hello and welcome to the communities. You can specify the full path to the vmfs volume and mem.zip file, and use SAN storage - assuming that SAN storage is available in production.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 host with no local storage - how to install Dell Multipathing...
Thanks for your welcome and reply. I do have SAN storage available in production, however since I am performing a clean installation of ESXi 5.1 I am going to lose connectivity to the SAN as host...
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Increasing a virtualized esxi vmfs5 local partition
Hey guys, first post here and probably not the last.... I'm building a virtualized lab on my laptop to study for my VCP 5.1 certification and I ran into a little problem here.. I have 2 ESXi hosts...
View Articlevsphere simulator modules
hello, i want to make vsphere simulator, what willl be its modules ? m confused.. i am making it,by using vi java api..plz help me....
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