First datacenter storage questions
I’m building my first datacenter soon. Two UCS servers and a EMC VNXe 3200 SAN. The SAN will have 6x 900gb 10k drives. I’m looking for some input on raid level and carving the store. For my server...
View ArticleRe: Can't delete or unmount datastore
I had this issue too. I did figure out it was related to another issue we had about a month ago. Last month we were applying some Windows updates to our vCenter and SQL servers. After rebooting the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Storage vMotion from NFS to same NFS but (1): same vol, different UUID
Hi there! As stated in KB 1005930 (and several other places as this communities), the UUID of a NFS datastore is generated from a hash between server and folder. In my case I have all my VMs in some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Re: Storage vMotion from NFS to same NFS but (1): same vol, different UUID
By the way, I understand that the best option is to mount a completly new and different NFS datastore, migrate everything there, unmount&mount NFS datastores, and migrate back. But not enough free...
View ArticleRe: First datacenter storage questions
I would first try to look at the I/O profile of your servers. Domain controllers I/O depend on the change rate you have in your AD. With 40 Users i guess that won´t be that high. We run half of our...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion from NFS to same NFS but (1): same vol, different UUID
How many NFS datastoes do you have? How big are your NFS datastores? and How many VMs do you have per datastore? I ask because the other way to approach this with your constraints is shut down VM on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Re: Storage vMotion from NFS to same NFS but (1): same vol, different UUID
Yes, the costumer is finally moving into that idea. Shutting down everything, unregistering, unmount&mount, register and power on. I was just trying to avoid the downtime. Five datastores, huge...
View ArticleRe: First datacenter storage questions
I dont think my IO needs will be that high on the file server. It stores a paperless document center that one individual is typically working with. It amounts to scanning pdfs to a share and then...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Re: First datacenter storage questions
Well i am a big fan of KISS (keep it simple stupid) so if your performance needs are low and you do not have a lot of scsi locks ( i recommend that for reading VMware KB: Analyzing SCSI Reservation...
View ArticleRe: First datacenter storage questions
This all makes sense. I'm working on getting a quote to add a 7th disk so I can run raid 10 with a spare from the jump. Ill sacrifice some space now but I think it will be worth it in the long run.
View Articlevmware Replication LAN or SAN
Hi I would like to know your experience with vmware replication without SRM over LAN.Arquitecture -300 virtual machine in two CPD active-active. 130 vm with replication CDP1 200 vm. 120 required...
View Articlevmware Replication LAN or SAN
HiI would like to know your experience with vmware replication without SRM over LAN.Arquitecture CDP1 200 vm. 120 required Replication or DR solution Host in 5.1 version. Storage NetApp...
View ArticleRe: vmware Replication LAN or SAN
Are you asking if is better replicate your data using array based replication (ABR) or vSphere Replication (VR) ? If yes, since you've a extended Fabric, the ABR replication will gives you a better RPO...
View ArticleRe: vFlash performance metrics missing
I've had mixed results with getting vFlash metrics also, some VM's show metrics straight away, some after a couple of hours, some never show. In ESXi the /var/log/hostd.log there will be messages...
View ArticleRe: vmware Replication LAN or SAN
HIThanks Richardson The RPO objetive not is very critical. Asincronous snapmirror or Replication is valid with 15 or 30 minutes.We are to see that VR generate many IO/s write (>4000) in taget...
View ArticleHow do I get the SDK for VAAI NFS?
I applied on the website and I work for a VMware partner but I've received no e-mails and no love. I have no idea who to call and it's important that I start implementing features for a customer of...
View ArticleHow do I get the SDK for VAAI NFS?
I am trying to find out how to get the SDK for VAAI NFS. I have applied more than a week ago. I work for a partner. I haven't received mail or a phone call.Did I miss something?
View ArticleHow do I get the SDK for VAAI NFS?
How many times do I have to post before I stop getting "Thread deleted"
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Script to rescan storage
Hello, We have a cluster of 3 ESXi 5.1 hosts and we recently did a test where ESXi hosts were not able to reach SAN for a while. During this test we also rebooted the servers and since the SAN did not...
View ArticleRe: vSphere 5.1 Script to rescan storage
You could try something like that but thats for a Machine where Powercli is installed: "Connect-VIServer [Your Vcenter Server]""Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba -RescanVmfs | ft -autosize"...
View Article