iSCSI timeouts with VMWare 5.0 and ONTap simulator 8
Hi all, I'm trying to get ESXi 5 talking to an iSCSI Netapp lun (well, netapp simulator) and I've got everything talking but when I go to format the LUN I get a timeout: 2013-02-19T20:32:35.918Z...
View ArticleHow to define datastore cluster boundaries in SDRS implemenations
In SDRS, a datastore cluster can encompass more than one HA cluster. Is it best to have only one datastore cluster per HA cluster? If there were reasons for having a datastore cluster encompass more...
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View ArticleRe: How to define datastore cluster boundaries in SDRS implemenations
Hi, You can connect multiple compute clusters (HA&DRS) to a single datastore cluster.Please try to connect all the datastores to all the host in a single cluster, otherwise the cluster will be...
View ArticleRe: vSphere 5 storage certification error - Couldn't get the product type
Sorry. I was never able to resolve this issue.
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Re: Configure multiple initiator zoning to single initiator zoning
Since multiple initiator zoning doesn't give much problem on my current environment, I would probably leave it this way since all the VMs all running at the moment. Would not want to spend much time on...
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Re: iSCSI Port Binding Question
Thanks to you both for helping me get my head round this, much apreciated
View ArticleStorage Adapter Performance
how will chek/analyze performance of Storage adapter in esx?
View ArticleRe: vmdk thin partition reduce size
Thank you for your answer. So let me provide some more details. We have created a thin vmdk which is larger that the actual datastore size. Even though the actual data on the vmdk are around 50% of...
View ArticleRe: Storage Adapter Performance
I am not sure you can monitor "Storage Adapters" from within vCenter, but you can monitor the storage, i.e. Datastores. This you can do via the vSphere Web Client. You can do some realtime monitoring...
View ArticleRe: Extra HDDVsphere 5.1
Thank you mate,i just found the it 1MB block size, however i tried to add the 3rd disk and after i tried to mount it i've got the next error Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions"...
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Re: VMs Unknown state. Storage not visible
Yes, I was following this article and I tried to rescan and hoping that the log could help identify the error. The adapters are still here as you can see is the print screen. On the step 4 it says to...
View ArticleRe: vmdk thin partition reduce size
What version of ESXi are you using? What is the VMFS version of this datastore? What is your backend storage - local, SAN, NAS? There are a variety of factors that can influence the time Converter will...
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vSphere 5.1/EMC VNXe 3150 Partial/No Redundancy
Having completed the setup/configuration of our new cluster along with our new EMC VNXe 3150 Array, I'm puzzeled as to why I'm seeing Partial/NoRedudancy after moving some VM's over to new host:...
View ArticleLarge Cyrus IMAP Server --- VMDK/RDM/iSCSI
Hi, I'm going to virtualize our mail server which is and will be a Linux VM with cyrus IMAP and postfix. Actually the mailstore is about 1.6TB with a 2GB day growth. The Virtual Machine will have a 1TB...
View ArticleRe: Large Cyrus IMAP Server --- VMDK/RDM/iSCSI
1- Linux VM system disks on VMWare Datastore and mailstore via direct linux iscsi initiator2- Linux VM system disks on VMWare Datastore and mailstore on linux LVM of 2TB VMWare vmdk disks3- Linux VM...
View ArticleAdding Additional iSCSI Volumes?
I have a esx 4.0 2 host cluster connected to an equallogic SAN. Currently the ESX's hosts are connected to 1 volume on the equallogic and there 10-15 VM's running on them using the equallogic volume....
View ArticleRe: Adding Additional iSCSI Volumes?
My question is this: to add the new volume to the ESX hosts, do I simply need to go to each hosts iSCSI initiator and do a "rescan for volumes"?That should do it. Is there any potential issue that...
View ArticleRe: vSphere 5.1/EMC VNXe 3150 Partial/No Redundancy
According to VMware this is an open issue?? PR 957273 is the internal issue Thoughts?
View ArticleHow do I contact VMware regarding a documentation issue?
Hi, I'm in the process of setting up an HP EVA, and had been using the following guide, easily found on Google:...
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