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So I'm a bit new to RDM's however the previous guy in my position setup a cluster on 2008 with 2 nodes that have 3 RDM drives (2 disks both 1.92 TB and a 3rd thats 5GB as quorum). The RDMs are in...

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Re: Having issues getting vVOLs to work with 3PAR

October 12, 2015, 12:16 am

I need to Mask all traffic coming from specific iSCSI or specific protocol type /var/log # esxcli storage core claimrule listRule Class Rule Class Type Plugin Matches---------- -----...

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ESXi 5.0 - Cisco UCS and TAPE Oracle StorageTek Compatible !

October 14, 2015, 12:09 am

Hi everybody,My system has a configuration like below:Blade Server: UCS B200 M2 (Model: N20-B6625-1) with mezzazine card M81KRHost OS: VMWare ESXi 5.0.0 - 623680VM-to-TAPE Connection: <(Windows...

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Re: Thin Provision & Data Deduplication

October 14, 2015, 5:58 am

I think we should be careful not to overstate the problem here. Worst case scenario is where dedupe is enabled on a system that already contains a substantial amount of data. In this case you're going...

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Re: ESXi 5.0 - Cisco UCS and TAPE Oracle StorageTek Compatible !

October 16, 2015, 12:58 am

Hi , could anyone help me to solve this case ?I am very exhausted getting stuck in it !

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Moving VM Datastor to new Datastor which consists of Exchange data

October 18, 2015, 11:42 pm

Hi We are migrating virtual machine to another Datastor, this virtual machines consists of Exchange application we are not moving the host. we are fine to shutdown the VM and do the movement. Need...

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Extend storage recommendation.

October 20, 2015, 9:38 am

Good day everyone. We have one Dell Powervault MD3220i with 18x 900GB 10K Rpm drives that currently running out of space. We are going to attach to it an MD1220 with a 6Gb SAS Cable and having 18x...

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Extending existing local datastore on stand alone ESXi Host

October 21, 2015, 1:44 am

Hi, Looking for some advice on adding disks / extending a single datastore. We have HP DL380 G6 Server, running stand alone instance of ESXi 5.1, with local storage only. RAID1 (2 x 146gb) for ESXi OS...

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Unmap clarification

October 21, 2015, 3:52 am

Hi I need some confirmation/details on the UNMAP/reclaim feature in 5.5 - While running unmap we see high Read rates and low/zero write rates on the storage adapters. One would expect high write rates...

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Re: Unmap clarification

October 21, 2015, 5:54 am

Hello, Welcome to the community. Prior to vSphere 5 and UNMAP when an operation occurred that deleted VM data from a VMFS volume, vSphere just looked up the inode on the VMFS file system and deleted...

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Re: Extending existing local datastore on stand alone ESXi Host

October 21, 2015, 10:52 am

Unless I'm mistaken, SmartArray P4xx RAID Controllers allow adding disks to an existing RAID set using the ACU (Array Configuration Utility) if BBWC/FBWC is present.After expanding the RAID set as well...

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Re: Incorrect "Used Storage" reported - ESX 5.5

October 21, 2015, 3:04 pm

So looks like this thread has been abandoned about a year ago. The link to KB article is dead. Is there any new information regarding this issue between Used and Provisioned space???

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