Re: VMware 5.5 best practice for VMware datastores presented to clusters.
I think this is more of a personal perference. It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish. I like the fact that my various clusters have some shared LUN's in common. That way I can...
View ArticleDetermine Disk Type eagerzeroedthick or zeroedthick
I have to confirm that the system disk of a MCS-node is eagerzeroedthick.In the clients ver. 5.5.0 Build 218311 and the webclient the disk is shown as lazy zeroed. I inflated the vmdk with vmfstools -D...
View ArticleRe: Determine Disk Type eagerzeroedthick or zeroedthick
Unless I'm mistaken, the tbz value is supposed to show the number of blocks not being zeroed yet. However, this value will also be zero in case of a newly create thin provisioned virtual disk. Are you...
View ArticleRe: How do I enable Software FCoE Adapter with Intel 82599EB apapter? -...
Did you add the vmkernel to the vmnic adapter associated to this ?
View Articlereintegrate delta files into changed basefile
Hello Community. The problem: We got a windows 2012 server vm and made a snapshot of that machine. then the base datafile was moved to an other vm. Changes were made to that datafile. Now we have the...
View ArticleRe: reintegrate delta files into changed basefile
Although it is technically possible to repair the snapshot chain, it actually depends on how much data was changed on the base disk while it was in use, and how lucky you are. Please provide an...
View ArticleRe: Reduce Provisioned Disk Size?
Although this is an old post, we still have some old Server OS and this worked for me.
View Articlescsi shared disk synchronization failed
Hey, I have enable bus sharing on 2 VMs to share one disk!everything work fine, I have added the disk on the first VM and after that adding it to the second!now I have a second disk on both VMs the...
View ArticleRe: Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD and performance in ESXi 5.5.
Hi, could you please tell me where download the intel driver: intel-nvme-1.0e.0.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1391871.x86_64.vib ? Thanks!
View ArticleRe: Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD and performance in ESXi 5.5.
HiAs far as I know, the driver isn't available to the public yet. It's only accessible through a few intel partners.The driver is not recommended for production use.
View ArticleRe: Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD and performance in ESXi 5.5.
Thanks for you answer. I put my P3700 SSD in my new PowerEdge R730. I would like to test the server waiting for the final driver release. Could you please give me that driver? Let me know,Regards, Luca
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Re: Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD and performance in ESXi 5.5.
HiI'm not sure if I can spread this driver around.I got it through Pernixdata. You can contact them.Dell and Supermicro should also have access to it. I'm not trying to be difficult, but since I got...
View ArticleReclaim used space
Hi I'm trying to reclaim free space at thin provisioned LUN using NMAP commands (vmkfstools -y). I am using a Netgear ReadyNAS 312 connected with ISCSI to my ESXi host.Unfortunately, VAAI is not...
View ArticleRe: Reclaim used space
The UNMAP VAAI primitive, and space reclamation in general, is only usedwhen the datastore is thin-provisioned on the storage-side. The idea isfor the ESXi host and storage array to agree on what...
View ArticleStorage DRS 5.5 Update 2 Best Practice - Quick Question
Hey Everyone, Getting ready to deploy Storage DRS. If I have 12 LUNS that are all the same characteristics, would it make sense to create a Storage DRS cluster containing all 12 LUNS? Thanks for the...
View ArticleRe: scsi shared disk synchronization failed
A setup of shared disks between different systems with simultaneous write access will only work (in a completely physical world well) if you have a clustered filesystem. And no, Windows NTFS (without...
View ArticleRe: Storage DRS 5.5 Update 2 Best Practice - Quick Question
If I have 12 LUNS that are all the same characteristics, would it make sense to create a Storage DRS cluster containing all 12 LUNS?Are all LUNs connected to the same hosts/clusters? If yes, then it...
View ArticleYet another remove NFS datastore problem
Hello, everybody! We have a VMware vSphere 5.1 environment and we have an external NFS datastore connected to one of the our hosts with OS distros and similar stuff. Recently on the side of NFS server...
View ArticleRe: Reduce Provisioned Disk Size?
Hi, first time I write here, so hello all I have a vmware solution, I'm not vmware system admin, I only my own organization admin, so I can not use API, only vCloud Director Two of my VM need to resize...
View ArticleSAN based storage - logs
Hi All,I came across strange problem, during troubleshooting of our storage, I have find out that command esxcli storage core adapter stats getreturns list of HBAs with high number of failed commands,...
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