Re: LUN not accessible vsphere
Hi continuum, I have attached the compressed file. Please have a look and let me know if you come up with anything. And thanks for your suggestion, really appreciate that.
View Article'Keep VMDK together' keeps unticking automatically ? Why.. - Storage DRS
Hi all I keep unchecking ' Keep VMDKs together' on my main cluster, but it turns it back on again randomly and then everything space alerts when it puts them all together again Looks like it is a known...
View ArticleRe: LUN not accessible vsphere
Hisorry I dont have much time at the moment - I suggest that you call me via skype in a few hours.I think I found Ergo VM Server-flat.vmdkServer 2008 R2 x64bit-flat.vmdkServer 2008 R2...
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Re: Using Hardware VSS Provider from inside VM
To answer my own question: After some testing I can confirm that this is possible with some workarounds and limitations.To clarify: Subject was VSS/VDS for HPE MSA 1040/2040.
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VMFS lock mechanism
Hello, We have a HA storage(two nodes,multiple LUNs exported to a 3 nodes ESXi cluster with 6.0.0 by iSCSI as datastores) which was detected by ESXi satp as VMW_SATP_DEFAULT_AA, but actually it's not...
View ArticleRe: VMFS5 local data store input/output error
virtualserver4 may i know how you solve at the end?
View Articledoes storage gets formatted after datastore deletion?
Hi,we are now looking into security issues after deleting datastore, if information is still left intact or is everything deleted? After datastore deletion does all bits gets converted to 0s or is it...
View ArticleRe: does storage gets formatted after datastore deletion?
ESXi is quite careless about this: a fresh VMFS format does only destroy the basic structures in the metadata-area.It does not care about any stale data that still populates the area used for...
View ArticleRe: VMFS5 local data store input/output error
The original post is from 2014 - at that time it was not a popular problem.Today it is different and happens way more often.I dont know how OP worked aound it ... I nowadays have 3 quite obscure...
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Best Practices for NFS Datastore
I'm trying to get some advice on how to best set up an NFS server to use with ESXi as a datastore. I took a stab at it with CentOS 7, but the performance is abysmal. I'm hoping someone can point out...
View ArticleRe: LUN not accessible vsphere
Hi, I have attached data dump of another LUN as per our discussion. Please have a look.
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Re: Best Practices for NFS Datastore
I figured out what was causing my issue: I didn't initialize the software RAID with the --asume-clean option. My arrays were resyncing the whole time. My new virtual disk is now performing as expected,...
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Re: LUN not accessible vsphere
I may be able to extract CN-MEL-BB-WinShare_1-flat.vmdk. (4tb)and CN-MEL-BB-WinShare-flat.vmdk # Disk...
View ArticleRe: VMFS datastore comaprison and use case NFS vs. iSCSI ?
rcporto, Thanks for the article. So if I'd like to setup NIC teaming for the ethernet connection, which technology is better in terms of throughput to take between NFS and iSCSI ?
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Re: Thin provisioned disk moved to other datastore becomes thick provisioned?
I've used the following loads of times and it works vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/datastore/RDSSVR/RDSSVR.vmdk -d thin /vmfs/volumes/RD1000/RDSSVR/RDSSVR.vmdkThat works on SAN or local disk.Have you...
View ArticleRe: VMFS datastore comaprison and use case NFS vs. iSCSI ?
Hi AlbertWT, Create LUNs with RAID10, Map to Targets at storage side and access using iSCSi. It will give you an awesome throughput.
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Re: Connecting ESXi to two different iSCSI SANS
Hi, Reboot the Array and ESXi...I was having the same problem but resolved by rebooting
View ArticleRe: CID mismatch error
There is a way to recover the file just before executing the command
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Re: CID mismatch error
Sorry - we do not have enough information to help you.In your original post I only noticed that your vmdk-filenames dont follow the regular conventions - this can be a serious problem or just...
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