Re: iSCSI over two network card?
This may basically work. However, make sure you check with the storage vendor to ensure the configuration is supported. Major storage vendor offer administration and/or best practice guides to do this....
View ArticleDefault storage namespace
Question up front: What namespace is used for a storage device if no other namespace can be determined? Background: I've been working with VMware since 3.5 days, but I'm finally doing a VCP class....
View ArticleHost Local Swap and VM Swap Space Consumption
Have a LUN which our VM team is using as their general swap location (ESXi 5.5) for both host local swap files as well as VM files. We keep needing to add space to the volume (currently up to 8TiB...
View ArticleFiber channel, Iscsi and AMD processors
Hey Everyone, We have some hosts that are dying on us (non-responsive) on a regular basis and we are trying to figure this out. Their death only happens at night when backups typically run (Veeam)....
View ArticleDo you use BOTH Fiber Channel and ISCSI on the same host?
Hey Everyone, Do you use Fiber Channel and ISCSI on the same host? Any issues or gotchas? Thank you,Matthew
View ArticleFibre Channel SR-IOV support
Hello. I'm trying to find out if ESX supports (or plans to support) SR-IOV for Fibre Channel devices. I found lots of documentation about SR-IOV for networking devices and was able to successfully...
View ArticleRe: Do you use BOTH Fiber Channel and ISCSI on the same host?
Hi, I have used both on the same host and I never had any issues.What issues are you experiencing?
View ArticleTroubles with Netapp and two esx
Hello, I'm in great trouble with two ESXi hosts, one in version 5.5 and one in version 6.0since wednesday, without any reason, they are losing connection with the Netapp iscsi drivesand I didn't found...
View ArticleRe: Reduce Provisioned Disk Size?
Can I make a suggest, which may help you? Create a new HDD and assign it into the structure, move/copy the files to the new drive (say using Robocopy.exe you can do this retaining permissions) For...
View ArticleRe: Troubles with Netapp and two esx
Hi, what logs were you checking? If you are losing connection constantly there will messages in the logs to indicate storage connectivity issues. check the following logs /var/log/vmkernel.log
View ArticleRe: unable to mount datastore after a raid event
Did you already try to read the volume with Linux vmfs-fuse ?
View ArticleRe: vFlash performance metrics missing
VMware have released the patch which resolves this problem now.VMware KB: VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi550-201505401-BG: Updates esx-base The vFlash cache metric counters such as FlashCacheIOPs,...
View ArticleRe: Troubles with Netapp and two esx
Thank you for your answer Heres is the only things I found un the vmkernel that seems to be related to my Iscsi drive 2015-05-19T05:54:49.966Z cpu10:32881)ScsiDeviceIO: 2324: Cmd(0x412e8982ccc0) 0x2a,...
View ArticleRe: Troubles with Netapp and two esx
It looks like your storage is busy and you also be having network issue, It is hard to say exactly what is going in your environment, but here are some links to help you interpret and make sense of the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting MPIO on a 4.0 Host
Hi All, We have just setup MPIO for the first time and had no problem getting it working on our new 6.0 ESXi host, but following the same process on an existing 4.0 host on the network that we are...
View ArticleRe: Troubleshooting MPIO on a 4.0 Host
Update: Found a few articles about IOPS needing to be set to 1 to get past a default limit of 1G throughput for Round Robin in ESXi 4, but did not solve the problem. Was able to successfully set IOPS...
View ArticleRe: vFlash performance metrics missing
Original KB is still inaccessible. Use this KB instead for more details.VMware KB: vCenter Server performance metrics for Flash Read Cache do not display for virtual machines with CBT enab…
View ArticleReplication VDP 6.0 data to external usb harddrives for offsite backup purpose
Hi Team, I have been using Vmware VDP from last one year and going to update it to VDP 6.0 (thanks to vmware for making it free now) , so before upgrading just wanted to confirm that does the new...
View ArticleAdjusting IOPS for Round Robin from 1000 to 1.
We have an HP Blade Chassis that we recently moved from 4G San to 8G San. We have a particularly chatty & repetitive application. The application vendor has some delays with rewriting the code to...
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