Trying to work out the best way to start!
Hi all; I am VERY new to Vmware......I have just taken delivery of a Dell server to run vmware on for a customer. Given the seemingly heinous cost of Dell storage, I am guessing that the best way is to...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 vmdk i slarger than the maximum size
As mentioned before, if the VMFS5 datastore was not upgraded from VMFS3, you will be able to manage virtual disks (including snapshots) larger than 2TB with vSphere 5.5. Also keep in mind that you also...
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what is "Number of loop resyncs" in HBA status from ESXi host logs
Hello Team, From ESXi host logs for HBA adapter logsI see this , what does this mean and what should be good number , basically our user facing some performance issue. "Number of loop resyncs = 49" Can...
View ArticleRe: Disk device path not specified for RDM backing
We found while troubleshooting this same issue that we did not have enough space where the .vmx file was located wast the issue, this also created cannot create a virtual disk as well.Once we increased...
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production vm storage?
what you guys use for production vm storage? i mean explicitly not labs / homes but something you roll in the office you don't own yourself would you put into production some free solution with...
View ArticleDatastores shared across multiple clusters
Good day Currently we have multiple v5.5 clusters setup, each with its own sets of datastores that it used.There was a request to make all datastores visible to all clusters:-example:-VC1 - Cluster...
View ArticleWindows 2012 SAN - Supported?
Hey Everyone, Is the Windows SAN supported on VMWare? Would anyone use this for their environment? Any feedback would be appreciated, thank you. Matthew
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Re: Windows 2012 SAN - Supported?
Bad news: not supported. MSFT iSCSI and NFS are both missing from VMware HCL. See: http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=san (Microsoft is not listed as a vendor...
View ArticleRe: Data stores per LUN
PDUPerez, Just curious did you create the LUNs calculator?I am new to vSphere and in what scenario have you used the LUN calculator?
View ArticlevSphere 6.0 & SPBM Integration - Design Question
What is new for Storage DRS in vSphere 6.0?"Up next the integration with Storage Policy Based Management. In the past when you had different tiers of datastores as part of the same Datastore Cluster...
View ArticleStorage Performance Analysis
Dears, Does anyone have any idea about storage performance analysis?
View ArticlePro and cons for 16TB LUN's
I have a 3PAR 7000 system with 64 TB NL drives and 8.7 TB FC drives. I was thinking about carving out 4 x 16 TB, one for each Host and then make 2 x 4TB of the FC drives. I have been trying to find...
View ArticleRe: Datastores shared across multiple clusters
As long as the LUNs are in the same vCenter, there will be no technical issues because of a LUN being seen in more clusters. However, you should pay attention to how many hosts in total can see the...
View ArticleMixing Hyper-V and VMware on storage array
Hi,I hate to admit but soon there will be Hyper-V running in our datacenter along with VMware :-) . We're going through the design sessions right now and one point that came to table was the discussion...
View ArticleRe: Pro and cons for 16TB LUN's
Thinks to consider:- How many VMs will there be on one such LUN and would the LUN queue depth be able to handle the IO- Will the LUN be mirrored and do you need to perform DR tests on that LUN making...
View ArticleRe: Pro and cons for 16TB LUN's
- How many VMs will there be on one such LUN and would the LUN queue depth be able to handle the IO --> Each LUN will have around 9 to 10 vm's. Really not a big change from current setup just making...
View ArticleRe: Mixing Hyper-V and VMware on storage array
I think another concern is if you share the storage pool you may not get expected results of Storage I/O Control in VMware.
View ArticleRe: Mixing Hyper-V and VMware on storage array
Richardson Porto wrote: I think another concern is if you share the storage pool you may not get expected results of Storage I/O Control in VMware. Storage I/O control or Storage DRS ? We're not using...
View ArticleRe: Mixing Hyper-V and VMware on storage array
I mean Storage I/O Control (SIOC), but note that Storage DRS uses SIOC too. Take a look at this KB article: VMware KB: Unmanaged I/O workload detected on shared datastore running Storage I/O Control...
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