Re: VSpere Client 5.5.0 datastore view vs Hitachi LUN views
You're using thin provisioning on Hitachi LUNs ?
View ArticleRe: VSpere Client 5.5.0 datastore view vs Hitachi LUN views
The LUN of the datastore belongs to the Dynamic Provisioning Pool so it has Thin Provisioning capability.
View Articleremove Datastore from single ESXi Host.
I followed the Datastore Mount/Unmount Detach/Attach functions for single host from Re: Unmout Datastore from 1 host I get the below error when I run the command. Any guess what could be doing wrong...
View ArticleRe: Create NFS datastore using non-default NFS port
The client (ESXi) sends a request to the NFS server's portmapper daemon via TCP port 111 (ESXi does not use UDP). Portmapper will inform the NFS client which port should be used for mount.
View ArticleMoving data to a new datastore
I am wanting to change a datastore of mine from a RAID 5 array on my SAN to RAID 10. This will require me to add another disk, but moreover, I have lots of data held in this datastore already...
View ArticleRe: VSpere Client 5.5.0 datastore view vs Hitachi LUN views
Ok, then if LUN are really thin provisioning on the Hitachi, then the view is correct, since VMware does not reclaim the free space automatticaly and you will need do this manually, take a look at the...
View ArticleRe: Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD and performance in ESXi 5.5.
NB:I've taken for granted that P3700 performs normal on DL380 G9. I'm installing Windows on one of them as we speak to get some clarification if this is actually is a vmware issue, and not a harware...
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Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD and performance in ESXi 5.5.
Hi I have 2 HP Proliant DL380 G9 with one 2TB Intel P3700 NVMe SSD PCI-e card each.When putting a virtual machine on these cards, I don't get the performance I expect. My baseline for this is a Windows...
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.5 raid5 9TB
Hi All, So i found the solution for my situation. The issue is that once you create a logical partition using the HP ORCA interface (the pre-boot one built in the hp array card), there is no settings...
View ArticleRe: iSCSI loses access to volume locks up server
I had the same issue exact issue ... What your current configuration connecting to your data store ? Iscsi ? NFS ? Are you using a standard switch or distribution switch ? ... I've seen them on both...
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Re: Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD and performance in ESXi 5.5.
It goes like stink in Windows: However, I've just gotten hold of a vmware pre-release driver from intel for P3700. I'll give that a try!
View Articlestorage question regarding block sizes and vmfs5
We just bought a new array with a feature called FlashDisk SSD Read Caching. the vendors implementation of this technology is this: It basically caches all frequently read blocks requests which...
View ArticleRe: Expanding datastore what is the best way ?
Hi,in my search I got this post because I hear that someone suggest to expand VMWare DS with LUNs of the same size, due to a perfomance issue.Do you know the reasons of that choice? Can you point me to...
View ArticleRe: Expanding datastore what is the best way ?
Welcome to the Community, using additional LUNs (i.e. extents) to increase a datastore's size is not necessary anymore. As of vSphere 5, VMware added support for LUNs/datastores with up to ~64TB, and...
View ArticleRe: storage question regarding block sizes and vmfs5
Now if VMFS collects the Oracle 8KB requests and puts them into 1MB blocks, then Im I correct to believe the SSD read cache pool will never be used?No, your assumption is incorrect. The VMFS block...
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Re: Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD and performance in ESXi 5.5.
Now we're talking, drivers are definitively the major issue here.Intel pre-release driver: intel-nvme-1.0e.0.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1391871.x86_64.vib , did the trick.The results are still a bit strange when...
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Re: Change in the IOPS limit calculation between 5.1 and 5.5
Hi, I found a post dealing with this problem recently, and thought it was worth sharing it with you all.http://anthonyspiteri.net/esxi-5-5-iops-limit-mclock-scheduler/ Long story short, there is an...
View ArticleVMware 5.5 best practice for VMware datastores presented to clusters.
I have been trying to find out what the best practice for which datastores to present to a cluster. The environment I am looking at has 10 clusters with about 10 ESXi hosts in each. There are also...
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