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VAAI xcopy not working on ESX6.0, used to work with ESX 5.5
We are seeing that VMwareVAAI XCOPY is not working with ESX 6.0. This used to work fine with ESX 5.5. The storage has not been updated, only the ESX server was updated to 6.0 and XCOPY stopped...
View Articleiscsi or nas storage for vsphere essentials plus
We are a small church and have volunteer technical members who have been very helpful in assisting us setup a VMware environment consisting of 2 ESXi5 hypervisor hosts. We are about to make a...
View ArticleApply policy to not use more than 80% of datastore
Dears, Is there any way to apply a policy to not to use more than 80% of Datastore Capacity ? ThanksRajesh
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Read from primary gpt table failed on "naa.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Running ESXI 5.5 update 3 Seeing the below errors on my hosts and all of them are device id's for RDM's I am using on guests. 2015-11-23T17:36:30.579Z cpu17:48347)ScsiDeviceIO: 2363:...
View ArticleRe: Apply policy to not use more than 80% of datastore
There's no such limit policy, but you can use storage DRS to automatically balance VM storage betwen LUNs based on the amount of free...
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Re: Read from primary gpt table failed on "naa.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
I don't think you need to worry about this error, it's probably just that the Hypervisor can't read the GPT layout created by the Guest OS during periodic storage device rescans or the Guest OS having...
View ArticleWhen a disk is expanded on a VM, could this lead to performance issues?
Hey All,To provide some background, we are hosting VM's for clients and one specific VM is having performance issues.As a test we cloned this VM and the cloned machine ran much better, this was running...
View ArticleRe: Latency spikes with msa2040 and Hp proliant DL 360 g9 ( 5.5u3 and 6.0 )
I have 2 Hp proliant servers dl380 gen9 servers with h241 sas and IBM DS3512 - they don't see each other...Esx 6.0 hp customized how you connected? install additional drivers/vib?
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NAS drive died, how to recover properly?
Hey,yeah to take this one away: someone fucked up ;-) Environment is ESXi 5.1.0NAS is Fujitsu Celvin q800 with raid 5 consisting of four hdd. Storytime:One of the hdds died and was replaced way to...
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NetApp iSCSI flexclone
I created a flexclone of our snapmirror iSCSI destination. I added it the initiator group so all the hosts can see the new flexclone datastore but when I go to add the datastore it shows up only on the...
View Articledetect 3par performance
I'm running several machines (50) in ESX 5.5 environment and I'm having performance deterioration in 3par 7200 storage (n.18 disks SAS 800 GB each one) infact total IOPS graph shows IOs reach 300...
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Snapshot has resulted in multiple virtual disks
Hi I have two virtual machines that now have multiple virtual disks after I took a snapshot of each and then removed the snapshot. I have attempted disk consolidation (vSphere reported that disk...
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The three disks in your VMs are definitely not related to snapshots. These are separate virtual disks which should show up in the guest OS.Snapshots show up as in "unsvmnav01", where you can see them...
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I/O Flow and Block Size
Hi everybody I`m a little bit confused at the moment, maybe you can help me with a question ;-) Following the scenario:You have a Windows VM with a NTFS formated VMDK File which is formated with 4k...
View ArticleThick provisioned disks, VMFS volume runs out of disk space.....
Hey guys, so I'm running Debian on ESXi. I created 2, 800GB Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed disks and installed the OS, which leaves me with 27GB free on the two drives I used.I install the OS,...
View ArticleRe: Thick provisioned disks, VMFS volume runs out of disk space.....
Sounds like the VM has a snapshot. Also note that, without a memory reservation, a vswp file equal to the size of RAM allocated to the VM.
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I deleted all snapshots, Also I only allocated 5GB of RAM.So if I don't have snapshots this should never happen?edit:Even after deleting snapshots it still wouldn't boot, including the...
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Is the VM named "openmediavault"? It's possible that, if there was a snapshot, that snapshot is still in the process of committing once deleted. Is there some sort of backup software that takes a...
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Yea the VM is named "openmediavault?I see, maybe I'll avoid snapshots then. No there is absolutely no backup system of any sort for the VMDK. I have data backup through openmediavault when it's running...
View ArticleRe: Thick provisioned disks, VMFS volume runs out of disk space.....
Once you create a snapshot, a new delta virtual disk (<vmname>-00000x.vmdk) is created and used to store all subsequent changes. This way each delta/snapshot .vmdk file can grow up to the...
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