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Re: Snapshot has resulted in multiple virtual disks
Hello unsvmnav02 seems to be pretty much ok and doesn't require any additional work on it. The other VM unsvmvpc01 is running with only one snapshot. If the snapshot is not required, you may delete the...
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Re: Difference between VMFS 5.58, 5.60 and 5.61
Thanks for the reply. Do you have any documentation about the minor performance improvements? I'm still looking for a concrete answer, Thanks
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Hi did you received any documentation ?thanks
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Re: Difference between VMFS 5.58, 5.60 and 5.61
I noticed one important difference between those VMFS-versions and that is the treatment of deleted files.- ESXi 5.1 and earlier: if a flat.vmdk gets deleted through a user-mistake or problem with a...
View ArticleUNMAP, do you fully get it?
Yes, there are quite a lot of blog posts about UNMAP out there. But do you really get it? Me not. What I do now so far is, that It does reclaim space on your VMFS Volumes. So far so good. But here my...
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I understood it a lot better after watching a VMworld session on YouTube. It had UNMAP in the video title, so it should be searchable.I will try to update this post later today with a link to the...
View ArticleRe: VAAI xcopy not working on ESX6.0, used to work with ESX 5.5
Do you have a Snapshot on this machine? XCOPY would not work then. Otherwise: Go to "Host and Clusters" View, select a Host which have this datastore mapped. Go to "Configuration" -> "Storage". Look...
View ArticleRe: UNMAP, do you fully get it?
Unfortunately it's a little bit hard to get the sense out of the Slides and I haven't found an answer to my questions. But thanks anyway.
View ArticleRe: UNMAP, do you fully get it?
It is, yes. The session was very helpful and the slides don't do justice to the talk.
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Here's the video: VMworld.com: VMworld 2013 Sessions & LabsLook for STO4907.
View ArticleEasier way to add SSD Drive Type
Hello, We are running vSphere 5.5.0 Build 2183111 and ESXi 5.5.0 Build 2143827 Update 2. Connected via FC is a NetApp FAS-2240 with one shelf of SSD drives. We have presented LUNs to vSphere and...
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Re: Easier way to add SSD Drive Type
There is a way in the Web Client to mark disks as SSDhttp://www.vladan.fr/how-to-tag-disk-as-ssd-vmware-esxi-5-x/ Having a disk marked as SSD allows the use of said disk for features that require SSD,...
View ArticleZero space reclaim process on ESXi 5.5 hosts
Hi All, What is Zero space reclaim process on ESXi hosts. Storage team ask me to do this Zero space reclaim process on ESXi hosts, This activity was carried out by my teammate who left the company....
View ArticleRe: Zero space reclaim process on ESXi 5.5 hosts
What you need is run a command on vSphere ESXi host to reclaim deleted blocks on thin provisioned LUNs, take a look: VMware KB: Using esxcli in vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 to reclaim VMFS deleted blocks on...
View ArticleIs it possible to take Snapshot and do storage vMotion with Phy RDM
Any info on this???? Any enhancements made in vSphere 6.0????? Thank you.
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Based on following KB the answer is not for your both questions: Physical compatibility modePhysical mode specifies minimal SCSI virtualization of the mapped device, allowing the greatest flexibility...
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Re: Zero space reclaim process on ESXi 5.5 hosts
Thanks RIchard, This is really helpful.
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VmKernel_LoadVMKModule(emcp): Unresolved symbol
Hi I see on all ESXi 5.5 servers in the cluster, when i use iLO console displayed again and again log below, without possibility to interact with the console, could you please advice what might be...
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Flash Cache Config
Guys, we're looking to deploy Flash Cache on one of our clusters. vSphere 5.5 (Enterprise Plus)BL490c Gen9Dynamic Smart Array B140i2 x 800 GB I was looking to see if anyone had any best practices...
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Re: NetApp iSCSI flexclone
Fast. Traditional copies can take many minutes or hours to make. With FlexClone technology even the largest volumes can be cloned in a matter of seconds.Space efficient. A clone uses a small amount of...
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