inactive storage.?
Hi guys, one of my storage on the ESXi is off and called inactivewhat its mind ? how to fix it? (esxi 5,5) thanks
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Re: inactive storage.?
Has the storage recently been removed, or is it a datastore that should still be available? Is it iSCSI, FC, or NFS?
View ArticleHow much of datastore should be left for the host its own to run
Hi all, I have EXSI 5.5 host installed recently. I am going to create a new VM machine on that host but the datastore on that host is about 2TB and I want to set 1.8TB for my VM machine so I only have...
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Hello Thao, This can help in the above case. http://www.simongreaves.co.uk/vmfs-datastore-free-space/ RgdsKanishk
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Hi Kanishk, Thank you very much for your replied. Can I have a question please? Why we have two *1.1 in the formula you know? Regards,Thao
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Hello Thao, The * 1.1 is to add 10% to the overall solution, to allow for snapshots.Kindly mark it as helpful/correct answer if this answer your query.RgdsKanishk
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Unable to connect to the requested VDP Appliance 5.5
Good day dear.I have the VDP appliance installed on my below when I try to open it in vCenter, this error message me.I would appreciate your help. Unable to connect to the requested VDP Appliance....
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So did you go to the configuration utility? Check if the services are running there.Check in what state the appliance is by opening it's console. If everything else fails, just reboot the appliance....
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Re: Unable to connect to the requested VDP Appliance 5.5
good morning Tim, thank you.But the service station all ok, as you can see in the picture
View ArticleRe: How much of datastore should be left for the host its own to run
Thanks for your prompt answer. I just want to make it clear on my understanding. Can you please help to correct if I am wrong. Surely that when I get everything clear, I will mark the question as...
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ESXi is pretty much Ligh weight. During the Installation, the ESXi would create partitions automatically. The Patitions to hold bootbank (main code), altbootbank, 4 Gigs vfat, store partition for Tools...
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Re: When a disk is expanded on a VM, could this lead to performance issues?
During the time of slow performance, did you tried to look at the utilization.? What does the performance charts or esxtop saying during the time of the issue.?
View ArticleDifference between VMFS 5.58, 5.60 and 5.61
What is the difference between the different versions of VMFS - 5.58 of ESXi 5.1, 5.6 of ESXi 5.5 and 5.61 of ESXi 6.0? There doesn't seem to be any change logs that I can find, and there doesn't seem...
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Hi Thao, ESXi 5.5 requires a boot device that is a minimum of 1GB in size. When booting from a local disk or SAN/iSCSI LUN, a 5.2GB disk is required to allow for the creation of the VMFS volume and a...
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Thank you all very much for the answers. Regards,Thao
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Re: Difference between VMFS 5.58, 5.60 and 5.61
I believe there's minor performance improvements as to how data is handled in the blocks. Good question though. Need a concrete answer. Suhas
View ArticleRe: When a disk is expanded on a VM, could this lead to performance issues?
> From what we understand any issues on the original vm should have been duplicated on to the clone.The original vmdk was expanded several times - so it is very likely that it is fragmented into...
View ArticleOrphaned Snapshops after Trilead Backup
My datastore is going to be full after a few more backups (ESXi 6.0). Using Trilead v6.0. I have about 50 snapshots that I am unable to remove through snapshot manager (ranging in size between 8-18...
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Re: Orphaned Snapshops after Trilead Backup
Hi,just a dumb question Have you tried to create a dumb snapshot and then try to consolidate it? (delete all option) ? Maybe this helps Best regards,Pablo
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Can you try to create another snapshot and remove all from the SSH.? Below Commands might be handy. vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create VM_ID Snapshot_Namevim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall VM_ID
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