VAAI support
“Hi. I’m Jason Jang at SK hynix memory solutions inc. We want our storage array can supports VAAI. We currently uses our PCIe SSD and 40Gbps Nic card. And, we uses SCST target + ESXI 5.5u2 Initiator....
View ArticleRe: Having issues getting vVOLs to work with 3PAR
Matt, what version of the HBA driver are you using? See this to figure it out: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1027206 I believe...
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Re: Safe to reduce size of NFS volume?
ESXi sees NFS stores as a filesystem, and VMs are just files on that fileystem. It doesn't format it, the NetApp handles the filesystem so as long as you don't try to reduce it to a size less than the...
View ArticleRe: Having issues getting vVOLs to work with 3PAR
I have been tied up on other projects and need to revisit this. I will respond to this thread when I get a chance to look at it again. -MattG
View ArticleRe: Having issues getting vVOLs to work with 3PAR
FLB 536 isnt supported.Confirmed by HP. CheersJohan
View ArticleRe: Having issues getting vVOLs to work with 3PAR
Is this shown in a support matrix somewhere ? or did support tell you directly ? Interested as we have a new HP build in process and want to be sure components are compatible. Thanks
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Re: Having issues getting vVOLs to work with 3PAR
Support told me directly and show in a support matrix. But 536FLB will be supported only a matter of time. Supported cards are :
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Warning: Crashed iSCSI MPIO LUNs after upgrade to vSphere 6
Hi This is meant as a warning to other VMware users, before they run into the same kind of problems, that we did when upgrading to vSphere 6. We have been running a setup like you see on the picture...
View ArticleRe: VMFS 5 LUN mapping to ESXi 4.1 question
This is not supported. You should upgrade all hosts to 5.5 before you connect them.
View ArticleRe: How to throttle Storage vMotion bandwith?
You could leverage Storage IO Control to limit provide throttle the VMs which create the perf problem, SvMotion is billed to the VM it is moving so that would work in this scenario.Storage IO Control...
View ArticleRe: Noob question about storage HA
Euhm, vSphere HA does not replicate a VM. It just restarts a VM after a failure has occured. FT is what "replicates" a VM on another hosts, literally a mirror both from a compute and storage point of...
View ArticleVCP-DCV Exam Discount voucher
HiAfter VMware closed my class, most of my students have received 70% discount voucher but not all.What to do now?
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Lost volume access, confused about APD response
So several days ago I had a major San failure and lost half the volumes access wise. So my Esx hosts lost about 40 of their 80 volumes for several hours. These hosts also are connected to another San...
View ArticleRe: Lost volume access, confused about APD response
hello, What you said is correct, in vSphere 55 if the LUN is APD then it has to be marked as PDL if LUN doesnt come back onlinw within next 140 seconds. This will make sure the management service hostd...
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Re: VCP-DCV Exam Discount voucher
Please contact the VMware certification team directly. You can choose one of the options below. Certification Assistance certification@vmware.com PH +1 866 377 4710 option 4 Contact Us
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Re: iSCSI target configuration and data stores in VMware 5.5U1
Hi.The problem is related with two parameters scsi_idscsi_sn Each Lun must to have diferent ids in order to vsphere can differentiate each lun. Remember that you can create those serial and ids based...
View ArticleRe: Doesn't work NPIV if vmhba Target ID is not equal to zero
Hi I've got the exact same problem as you. When the target ID is zerro it Works perfectly fine. I've started support cases @VMware and @HDS (the HW vendor), but they've not found anything yet. Have you...
View ArticleDowngrading 5.5 Enterprise Plus license to 5.5 standard and losing sDRS
We have a test VMWare 5.5 patch2 cluster with 3 hosts, and a production VMWare 5.5 cluster as well. We have the same datastores presented to both clusters. We are needing to downgrade our licensing...
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Active/Active(I/O). How in can put all storage adapters paths to active ?
Dear Friends In the Configuration >> Storage Adapters im have two adapters. First Storage Adapter with Active and Second Storage Adapter with Active(I/O). How im can change Second Storage Adapter...
View ArticleRe: Active/Active(I/O). How in can put all storage adapters paths to active ?
Take a look at path selection policy configured for this LUN (seems like you're using the Fixed) and if your storage supports Round Robin policy, try change to Round Robin and you will see both paths...
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