Re: NFS Datastore => No host connected, unable to delete it
Sorry found the culpit .... snapshots on VMs (with CD-ROM mapped).
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Are you using web client?try from vSphere client and see if that makes a difference.For NFS datastore, Unmount = Delete (there's no difference between these two activity, web client doesn't even give...
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there you go, you found it.
View ArticleRe: reclaim storage from VMFS volume
Hi Kanishk Yes I have tried the command vmkfstools -y with 60,70,80,90,99 and even the figures in the following thread Re: esxcli storage vmfs unmap - doesn't reclaim all available storage? however it...
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Thanks. That's what I thought or I already knew. I hoped there is maybe a third-party tool available.
View ArticleForcing datastore heatbeating refresh
I have my HA cluster (vSphere 5.1) set to select any datastore for heartbeating. Unfortunately, I need to unmount one of the selected datastores. How do I force vSphere to refresh its choices without...
View ArticleAdvice on best practice NFS datastore
Due to having only a single nic on my NAS I have done the following to allow easy management of the NAS's web GUI over my LAN and still separate the NFS subnet from vsphere. I have a vsphere...
View ArticleRe: Forcing datastore heatbeating refresh
Not sure if you can do this, but you may try disabled datastore heartbeat like describe here How to disable Datastore Heartbeating and disable HA on cluster. After unmount the datastore you can...
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Starting in vSphere 5.5 we introduced a new concept: the custom TCP/IP Stack. Created via the command line, you could separate vmkernel traffic by configuring a new TCP/IP stack. This would allow for...
View ArticleRe: Thin provisioning and fragmentation level of vmdk
Well there is no reporting tool that I am aware of - however you can use vmkfstools -t 0 vmdk to find out the number of fragments.For large vmdks you can often find 10.000 fragments and more ...To...
View ArticleStarWind
I have the 8.0 version of StarWind and have it installed on two Windows 2012 Server VMs on two ESXi Servers Each ESXi Server has 5 2TB datastores available. I added four 2 TB drives to the VMs and...
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Create spanned volume (Or Disk concatenation) Create a Spanned Volume see if this helps.
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If this is similar to software RAID, then it will nto be an option. StasrWind has a BIG warning not to use software based RAID when defining the StarWind Shared voulme
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Configure Passthrough-VMDirectPath in VMWare ESXi RAID USBtry to explore this and see if this helps. if your VM has virtual disks attached then this is not an option for you, in that case you have only...
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Disk Bay under "Hardware Status"
Hi,I'm working with ESX 5.5 with 10 disks attached to it. (local storage) Under "Hardware Status" --> Storage there's "status" per "Disk Bay" What the disk bay means? is it the real physical bay of...
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The ESXi basically gets the hardware status from the CIM broker and update it on the UI. These are all the status the HW has exposed to the ESXi. It will just populate all available fields from the HW....
View ArticleRe: Can´t Create virtual machine
Dear - There should be numerous users have access on your vCenter,Can you tell me - Is this error triggering to all when they have tried to create a VM, this is just to confirm if there is any...
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The only thing I'm accessed with the root user , the machine that is trying to create a host level , and I want to create a machine on a new album , thanks
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ok,,it has Virtual Disk (4) attached to the VMIt looks like I can not pool the drives into one one 8 TB volume,,I will have to use LSFS for each drive.
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