Re: Host Cache Configuration and Virtual Flash
Host Cache is essentially swapping to SSD. More on that here and here. Put enough memory in the host, and you won't have any use for it. Virtual Flash, called vFlash Read Cache is a host-based flash...
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Hi larsonm, Thank you for reply. Yes, hosts have a ton of memory, so I doubt that will ever be an issue. I guess there's no point We have not made a decision on VDI yet. Currently, just using a few...
View ArticleSize .VMDK is differrent on SO of VM
Hi I have the following error The Size of LUN for datastore is 600GBThe VM only show 392GB, someone to know why?
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Maybe cause the disk has two partitions. Please, open the diskmgmt.msc on your Windows guest and post the screenshot of disks.
View ArticleRe: Host Cache Configuration and Virtual Flash
Probably the RAID1 configuration. Here are some items to review. Also, vFRC isn't going to like if there's a file system (like VMFS) already on the drive.
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Re: Host Cache Configuration and Virtual Flash
If you want to use it as vFlash, unmount and delete the datastore created on the SSD drive. Then you should see it on the vFlash Resource allocation page.
View ArticleRe: Network access to datastore
Ok, Just to follow up, may be useful to someone ended up configuring a NFS share on the NAS and copying directly, this way go the best transfer rate.
View ArticleLatency spikes with msa2040 and Hp proliant DL 360 g9 ( 5.5u3 and 6.0 )
Hello everybody. 2 Hp proliant servers dl360 gen9 servers with h241 sas ( every everything up to date .. firmware )1 msa2040 sas12 with two raids ( 10rpm 7rpm ) two luns and two datastoresEsx 6.0 hp...
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Re: Having issues getting vVOLs to work with 3PAR
Hi all, I have also the same warning (sanity check failed...) with HP BL660c and FlexFabric 534FLB (Broadcom) with fresh installed vSphere 6 although I updated the lastest driver 534FLB from HP web...
View Articlepoor man`s cluster in a box with raid1 across nfs
i have some idea in mind i´d like to share before starting a test setup (sort of a "cluster in a box" or "shared nohing san") scenario:- 2 esx boxes with local storage only- each of those boxes hosting...
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Re: Misc.APDHandlingEnable, preventing hostd failures and impact on VMs
>And that even though the outage of 10-15m lasted way longer than the GuestOS SCSI timeout (60-180s) by the way This is something i'm currently wondering about.I`m doing some testing with linux and...
View ArticleRe: Cannot unmount datastore in vSphere Web Client
Mware articles outlining the correct procedure for removing datastores in a vSphere environment:$vcServer = "vCenter01"$cluster = "CL01"$esxCred = Get-CredentialConnect-VIServer $vcServer |...
View ArticlePlease explain Consolidate and Delete All Snapshots
I have 15 snapshots for a VM I want to understand the background process for Consolidate and Delete All. Which one should I prefer???? and which one impacts the performance of the VM? Appreciate your...
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Hi, This KB will help you understand the overall process of Snapshots. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1015180 RgdsKanishk
View ArticleRe: Please explain Consolidate and Delete All Snapshots
Hi Follow the mentioned procedure Delete all snapshots - Yellow Bricks
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Great... You can also refer the above KB it also helps to understand the entire process of the snapshots. RgdsKanishk
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Duncan's link is old one (2008 post). Now the Snapshot mechanism is changed as far I know and minimal space is required to Delete Snapshots I have gone through many KB articles. Please explain...
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Ok so when we talk about snapshots in VMware deleting means merging the snapshots to the base disks. for Example if you have base disk of 5gb and child disks of 2gb ( child disk is nothing but your...
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Hi Kanishk, Thanks for the reply. Explanation regarding consolidate is not convincing to me. You mean to say, I should click on consolidate when there are no Snapshots in Snapshot manager and VM base...
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Consolidation ia required when ur snapshot manager says that there are no snapshots however u can still see delta files in your datstore in that case u gat a warning vm consolidation needed. means u...
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