VMWare ESXi and Intel DC3700 Poor Performance Even With Intel's Driver
I'm running VMWare ESXi 6.0.0I have the Intel DC3700 800GBMy VM is running Windows 10 x64 with 8GB RAM and 4CPU Cores. The entire VM is 32GB and sits on the SSD. When I install Windows directly onto...
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Hm. Strange.I'm running P3700 as pernixdata fvp cache (5.5.u2), and it works like a charm. I've seen that using vmware paravirtual controller inside the VM might make a differende, but not that huge...
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Re: VMWare ESXi and Intel DC3700 Poor Performance Even With Intel's Driver
I'm using CrystalDiskMark 1GiB file size. I'm talking about sequential read. I don't think it has anything to do with the benchmark because I'm running the exact same thing with a straight Windows...
View ArticleRe: VMWare ESXi and Intel DC3700 Poor Performance Even With Intel's Driver
Yes. You are probably right.I don't have any usefull ideas, since you allready are using intels driver. I had major performance issues with vmwares driver, but with the intel driver, it has all worked...
View ArticleSuccess probability of 3 Tb snapshot removal if system itself takes about 3Tb...
Hello. I have a problem... VM located on vSphere 5.1 VMFS5 storage partition has 3 vmdk files (1 for each data partition in windows 2008 server, ~1Tb each). There were snapshot taken from this system,...
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It depends on whether the virtual disks are thin or thick provisioned. With thin provisioned virtual disks you will most likely not be able to delete the snapshots, because the base disks may grow....
View ArticleUsing Vmware 4.0 and having storage issues
I was trying to extend the storage space on one of 2 servers using Datastore1. Powered down the server. It said that I could extend Disk1 to 80GB with 2 remainder.Adjusted up to 80GB then tried...
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Re: Using Vmware 4.0 and having storage issues
The reason for this is most likely that there's not enough disk space left on the datastore to create the swap (.vswp) file which - once the VM is powered on - is created with the size of the VM's...
View ArticleRe: Network access to datastore
Hello all, Did some tests with PowerCLI, WinSCP, PSCP and copies are very slow. For a 200 GB VM I get about 10 hours. (5~6MB/s) Security is not an issue since the copy is inside the LAN... I read about...
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Unable to access synology iscsi datastore on nested host
I have setup a Synology ds 414 version -5-2-5592 , with 2 volumes set as 2 iscsi targets, I am running 2 esxi 6 hosts , one physical and one nested, from the phyiscal host I can access the targets...
View ArticleRe: Moving VM Datastor to new Datastor which consists of Exchange data
What vSphere licences do you have? If it's Standard or higher, you can simply use Storage vMotion, which is completely non-disruptive.
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Re: Moving VM Datastor to new Datastor which consists of Exchange data
as Nick mentioned: if you have SVMotion licensed, i would recommend to use SVMotion.with SVMotion you can even migrate the Exchange VM online. But its not as fast as when the vm is offline. i would do...
View ArticleMaximum FT VMs per host in v Sphere 6.0
Hello, I hope to get some explanation regarding Maximums for FT VMs in 6.0. The official VMWare documentation states that there is a limit of 4 Fault Tolerant VMs or 8 vCPUs per host (whichever limit...
View ArticlePhysical RDM's to Virtual RDMs Supported in vSphere 6.0
Does anyone know if this process in KB 1006599 works in vSphere 6.0+? VMware KB: Switching a raw data mapping between physical and virtual compatibility modes in ESX/ESXi We are about to migrate a...
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Re: Physical RDM's to Virtual RDMs Supported in vSphere 6.0
I don't see any reason to why this will not work in vSphere 6, since the procedure is just remove the physical RDM disks and add them again as virtual RDM disks... I think the KB is just out of date.
View ArticleMerging / Combining multiple VMDK's on different datastores into one VMDK on...
So, I think I know the answer to this (do it the long way) but i wanted to run it by the community just in case I was wrong. The Environment:vSphere 5 EnterpriseESXi 5.1.0.vm: Windows serer 2008...
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Re: Merging / Combining multiple VMDK's on different datastores into one VMDK...
I would also prefer to get rid of any setups that use spanned volumes like this. I would power of the VM, add a new 700gb or larger vmdk and thenboot into a Windows-based LiveCD.and clone spanned disk...
View ArticleRe: Incorrect "Used Storage" reported - ESX 5.5
Just tried the sdelete option and a storage vMotion on ESXi 5 with VMFS5 datastores … and it worked well! I was a bit afraid as the block sizes are all identical on newly created VMFS5 datastores, but...
View ArticleRe: Merging / Combining multiple VMDK's on different datastores into one VMDK...
A couple different ways depending on if boot drive is primary. 1. If not, just create a new disk the size you want and then use windows software mirroring to mirror the data and permissions over....
View ArticleESXi multiple storage array design iSCSI?
Hi, I've a scenario where I've to connect 3 storage arrays to the same ESXi and I've only 2x10Gb interfaces available in the server.Each 10Gb card is connected to a different switch and each storage...
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