Re: Yet another remove NFS datastore problem
Not sure, but does any of the VM's have active snapshots? André
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View ArticleRe: P2000 G3 FC Disk Latency ESXi 5.5
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View ArticleHow to Unmap a datastore from esxi host without loosing data
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View ArticleRe: Yet another remove NFS datastore problem
a.p., thanks, looks you are right, both VMs that shows as connected to this datastore has snapshots. I`ve deleted one of them and this VM now isn`t shown as connected to it anymore. Unfortunately, I'm...
View ArticleRe: Yet another remove NFS datastore problem
The "ghost" entries will disappear once you delete the snapshot(s). However, keep in mind that if you decide to revert to the snapshot, you may receive some error messages, or warmings due to the...
View ArticleDell EqualLogic array stopped working during outage reboot
During/after a planned maintenance outage, ESXi cannot mount datastores on our Dell EqualLogic Array and I have no idea why. We're running ESXi 5.0. We shutdown everything over the weekend, replaced...
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Re: Dell EqualLogic array stopped working during outage reboot
Fixed; the MTU setting on my storage switch was clipping some of the storage traffic. Below are the troubleshooting steps that I went through, maybe it'll help someone else out. The solution didn't...
View ArticleRe: How to Unmap a datastore from esxi host without loosing data
Please find the right steps Query1before activity take VM export which are stored on datastoreHome => datastore and datastore cluster => select the datastore => VMs => add all the columns...
View ArticleRe: Physically moving storage from one Rack to Another
Please find the right steps above POA is 100% okay and tested. before activity take VM export which are stored on datastoreHome => datastore and datastore cluster => select the datastore =>...
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View ArticleRe: How to Calculate "used storage" within vSphere
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View ArticleRe: How to Calculate "used storage" within vSphere
Thanks so much Andre! I will check with them to see if they will consider doing those steps.
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