Re: How can I shrink a thin provisioned vmdk file?
Hi, Can you shutdown virtual machine and again svMotion (Thick to Thin) ? You can get back unused space only when the virtual machine is turned off. Thanks.
View ArticleRe: VAAI UNMAP - reclaim-unit for a netapp storage
Did you ever manage to find the answer for this? I want to run this against my NetApp storage as well but have read the vmware KB article and advises to speakt to storage vendor about what is the best...
View ArticleEsxi 5.5 not showing RAID 5
Dear all, I installed a custom Esxi 5.5 on a HP DL 360 G9 (custom because I have the p440ar RAID comtroller). After instalation I install the HPSSACLI without problems, now I need see the RAID...
View ArticleHow to mount a vVol Datastore on multiple ESXi hosts in the same cluster with...
Dear talents, I intended to setup a shared Datastore that is accessible from multiple ESXi hosts in the same cluster. This can be done with the "Mount Datastore on Additional Hosts" option in the...
View ArticlevSphere 6u2 and EMC UnityVSA and VVOLs -> Protocol Endpoints are not created
Hi all, I've just installed UnityVSA from EMC (Version 4.0.1) in my lab with vSphere 6u2. I've created an old fashioned VMFS-Datastore on a LUN and an NFS-Datastore on a share. Everything is working...
View ArticleRe: BEst PRactice to create one large LUn or small LUN
awesome post tahns for share punsong
View ArticleRe: vSphere 6u2 and EMC UnityVSA and VVOLs -> Protocol Endpoints are not created
Hi all, after hours and hours I found out, that this seems to be a certificate error (unityvsa-1 is my UnityVSA): 2016-09-12T12:58:48.222Z info vvold[FF9FBB70] [Originator@6876 sub=Default]...
View ArticleVMDK file missing, getting with the data up to date
Hi There, We are currently running with VMWare Esxi 5.5, we observed one of the VM did not have vmdk file. So powering on the machine is not possible. We followed the KB articles present in VMware...
View ArticleRe: VMDK file missing, getting with the data up to date
Welcome to the Community, you said "..., but the data is not present."- Can you please clarify which data is missing?Please compress/zip the VM's *.vmx, *.vmsd, and *.log files and attach the .zip...
View ArticleStorage vMotion x Migrate Vms
Amigos,Preciso fazer o storage vmotion do ambiente de legado para um ambiente novo criado em paralelo:1) Posso migrar, considerando fazer o storage vmotion entre datacenters de versões diferentes? Ou...
View ArticleMigrate x Storage vMotion
Friends,I need to VMotion storage of the legacy environment to a new environment created in parallel:1) Can I migrate considering making storage VMotion between data centers in different versions? Or...
View ArticleLatency on LUNs SAN whats your opinion?
Fellow community, I've opened a ticket with VMware but wanted to get your opinion as well. When looking at "physical device read latency" I'm seeing 570ms. And I'm seeing high numbers across multiple...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion x Migrate Vms
1) Posso migrar, considerando fazer o storage vmotion entre datacenters de versões diferentes? Ou versões de ESXi diferentes (5.0 to 6.0)Quando voce fala "datacenters" voce está se referindo ao objeto...
View ArticleRe: Migrate x Storage vMotion
I believe that is the same question: Re: Storage vMotion x Migrate Vms If you have any additional question, just let us know :-)
View ArticleRe: iSCSI treating new target LUNs as additional paths for existing target LUNs
Just want to thank you Jon as I stumbled upon this post and this was exactly the correct fix for me.. Talk about frustration of adding a new LUN only to have it not detected and on top of it when I...
View ArticleUnable to register VASA Provider in vCenter
Hi All, I am new to VASA Provider development. Now I have created "Dynamic Web Project" out of VASA 5.1 SDK in Eclipse. When I run tomcat from eclipse and if I register my Vasa Provider 1.0 in...
View Article3par upgrade
Hi, We are going to upgrade 3par so we have same vm and they have LSI Logic disk. any problem after upgrade 3par for LSI Logic disk.
View Articleesxi 6 file server question
Hey Guys, So I have a dell poweredge 1950 with two hard drive bays, 1 is a 160GB where I store all of my VM's and the other one is a 1TB drive that I want to share out to the rest of my network as a...
View ArticleRe: Losing Heartbeat to Mushkin Reactor 1TB Drive
Hi, Same problem with a Mushkin Reactor 1 TB installed on a ibm x3650 M3VM on another SSD (OCZ Vertex 3) are okbut for VM on the Mushkin SSD, sometimes, the Vms are no longer accessible and I also need...
View ArticleBuild vasa with Eclipse
Hi, i'm newbie of vasa,Recently I start to learn VASA, I have to build it into eclipse,I don't know how to build sample on eclipse.Does anyone can hint me to build it? or is there any document to...
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