Re: Cant add iSCSI volumes from a different site\location
I suspect you are having a firewall issue. You will need to verify that the ports being used for iSCSI traffic are allowed end to end through the firewall. Further if you are using a non standard MTU...
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The firewall setup "should" be fine. We are only doing the storage sharing between sites for DR purposes and wont be running any VMs from one site to the other. I'm thinking its because the IPs of the...
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I just read this on the VMware site.iSCSI port binding in ESX/ESXi 4.x and ESXi 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 does not support routing.And if you look under "When not to use port binding" on this page VMware KB:...
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If I were to add another vmk on the 10.1.19.x (remote storage) network would that work or would it cause issues with the 10.1.45.x storage network that is currently uses for storage at the same site?
View ArticleAnother iSCSI Path Status 'Not used' Thread
Hello, I am trying to set-up my ESXi Lab, and after I set-up my HBA and connects to it via the 192 Network. The iSCSI shows up as "not used":http://i.imgur.com/5vVZtWc.png I have the following...
View ArticleRe: vFlash performance metrics missing
VMware are expecting to patch this problem in the last week of April, the follow KB article will be accessible in the next week or so http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2106149
View ArticleRe: Storage System Upgrade
Correct. I do it all the time. You should not see outages at all.
View ArticleFusion io cards and RAID
Hello, Thanks to any responses beforehand. We have a customer for whom we are purchasing a Dell R820 with 2 Fusion io2 1.2 TB cards. In the absence of hardware RAID support, what is everyone's'...
View ArticleCBT and migration of vmdk
We currently use CBT based backups. For an app migration we are doing, we are have a VM with 2 VMDKs, a boot drive and a data drive. We are rebuilding the boot drive with newer OS and newer app, and...
View ArticleMixing Fixed and Round Robin PSPs on same LUNs but different hosts
I have an ESXi 5.0 production environment using HP Lefthand storage and the default fixed PSP. I also have a dev 5.5 environment using round robin PSP on the same LUNs\storage as the production...
View ArticleRe: CBT and migration of vmdk
Changed Block tracking used as ChangeID for identification, which consists of a UUID and a sequence number. If a backup application first backs up a virtual disk, it has no knowledge of the UUID and...
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EMC disks and VAAI -- Timed out waiting for migration data
Anyone else having storage vmotions fail on EMC storage with VAAI enabled? We added some new EMC disks on a different SYMMETRIX frame, and unless I disable VAAI, I cannot migrate data to these disks. I...
View ArticleStorage APIs now included in vSphere 6 standard license?
Hi all, Ive just been reading the release details for vSphere 6 and they imply that the storage APIs are now included with the standard license (used to be enterprise and above). Can anyone confirm if...
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Re: P2000 G3 FC Disk Latency ESXi 5.5
Do you have any updates of your problem? I have a similar problem with HP 3PAR and HP Proliant 460 G7/G8: 2015-02-05T10:32:14.430Z cpu11:98640)lpfc: lpfc_scsi_cmd_iocb_cmpl:2185: 0:(0):3271: FCP cmd...
View ArticleCreate NFS datastore using non-default NFS port
My NFS server does not listen the standard NFS port (e.g. 2049). So, is it possible to create an NFS datastore using such NFS server? I did not find any options that can specify a customized port...
View ArticleVSpere Client 5.5.0 datastore view vs Hitachi LUN views
Hi all, my customer have a VMWare Platform attached to an Hitachi VSP storage.The question about my problem is this: Into VSphere Client I see VMs use 276 GB of storage but into Hitachi LUN (that...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and iSCSI IP changes
Long story short, I have a homebrew SAN publishing LUNs. I had that misconfigured a little bit and found that the ESXi host was connecting to these LUNs over a single, standard 1G/1500MTU connection...
View ArticleReclaiming Space on DellEqulogic SAN
Trying to reclaim space on my SAN and runnign the VMKFSTOOLS command and not having any luck. I'm going by KB 2014849 and the sintax seems straight forward but no luck. i go to the Volume that is...
View ArticleRe: Reclaiming Space on DellEqulogic SAN
You're runnning vSphere ESXi 5.5 ? if yes, the command vmkfstools -y is deprecated and has been replaced by the esxcli storage vmfs unmap command.
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