Re: Any downsides to using Round Robin?
Can you give me a link to where you found that information or are you just on the HCL?
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Cool, thanks for the link. Ill give HP a call and see what they say.
View ArticleThin Provisioning and VASA providers?
We are currently provisioning VMs Thick on Thin(array). We are interested in investigating thinning out our VMs. It was my understanding that the vCenter thin provision alarms only work if you have the...
View ArticleVMware 5 and Hitachi HDS 110 iSCSI high latency
So we have a new HDS 110 running over to Nexus 5k's 10gb and down to 2k's coming out to the hosts at 1gb. The overall performance is ok (not FC but hey.. do what we can) After putting some file servers...
View ArticleRe: Optimizing NFS performance with vSphere 5.1 using Oracle Sun ZFS Appliance
Are you still using this setup? there was a NFS vaai plugin released for the 7320's back in September 2014. We have an almost identical setup that you have except we use iscsi instead of NFS.
View ArticleRe: ESXi Hosts Sharing Direct Attached SCSI Arrays
Were you able to get this working in your existing environment? We are in a similar situation...
View ArticleDead iSCSI and corrupted VMFS partition metadata - cannot remove iSCSI
Background:- 1 vCenter server- 5 ESXi hosts attached to vCenter server- 2 iSCSI storage arrays (array-1 and array-2) We started getting VMFS metadata corruption errors from array-1 and migrated all VM...
View ArticleRe: Dead iSCSI and corrupted VMFS partition metadata - cannot remove iSCSI
Tracked down the issue finally. It was caused by a CD/DVD being mounted from the ISO datastore on array-1 to those affected VMs. Changing the CD setting to Client Device rather than ISO Datastore for...
View ArticleStorage vMotion Super Large VM
vSphere Client 5.1 / VMware ESXi 5.0 I have some very large VMs running Linux that I need to vMotion to another datastore cluster. For example, one of these monsters has about 50 virtual disks of...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion Super Large VM
Not sure, but maybe http://frankdenneman.nl/2013/01/08/manual-storage-vmotion-migration-into-datastore-cluster/ can help!? André
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion Super Large VM
Thanks. No help there. I was looking that page earlier today. Looks ike the author is using a more recent Web-based vSphere client and there might be some options that I don't have in Windows vSphere...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion Super Large VM
if you do the svmotion you can click advanced. there you can target different disks to different datastores.wouldnt that be a solution? instead of trying to put all on one datastoredont know if that...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion Super Large VM
You're getting this problem may because the default virtual machine settings for the Datastore Cluster is "Keep VMDKs Together", this way the vCenter will may look for a datastore with at least 6TB of...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion Super Large VM
Thanks. I did look in Virtual Machine Settings for the Datastore Cluster, and the checkbox for "Keep VMDKs together" is not checked for any of the VMs. You are correct that I could go into advanced...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion Super Large VM
Thanks, yes I did try this, and it failed and I can't recall why.. I'll have to try it again. It is very tedious though, with so many disks.
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Cant add iSCSI volumes from a different site\location
I have 2 vCenter server\sites, a 5.0 production site and 5.5 test (soon to be production) site. Each site is at a different location on a different network but should have full access to each other....
View ArticleStorage System Upgrade
What risks are there to my ESXi cluster by performing a storage system upgrade such as on a VNX and how serious are the risks (i.e. temporary loss of connectivity during path failover to secondary...
View ArticleRe: Storage System Upgrade
If zoning is configured properly (i.e. paths to SPA and SPB) ESXi you should not really notice an interruption but simply switch the paths to the LUN(s). If you are running very high workloads, you...
View ArticleRe: Cant add iSCSI volumes from a different site\location
I just realized something. Could this be because my iSCSI vmkernal port IPs dont match the other site? For example the storage is 10.1.45.x and my iSCSI vmk is 10.1.45.x on the ones that work. For the...
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