Re: Clone operations on NFS
The host has no visibility into the blocks of an NFS file. It is only being fed information from the array. Without a vendor supplied plugin to talk directly to the array, the host must read in the...
View ArticleLab Environment - Testing HA
Currently I have 2 Esx hosts Vsphere 4.2 with datastores residing locally.Just added a NAS appliance (the purpose is to test vMotion and HA Plan to boot up both ESX hosts from USB flash drive with...
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LPhilippe06 wrote: Currently I have 2 Esx hosts Vsphere 4.2 with datastores residing locally.Just added a NAS appliance (the purpose is to test vMotion and HA Plan to boot up both ESX hosts from USB...
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Thanks for the reply. I am trying to cover all angles. I wasn't entirely sure, and I didn't want to corrupt my existing machines. Do I need to re-configure storage on the ESX hosts?
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LPhilippe06 wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am trying to cover all angles. I wasn't entirely sure, and I didn't want to corrupt my existing machines. Do I need to re-configure storage on the ESX...
View ArticleRe: NFS with Multipath on DV Switch 5.1?
What kind of hardware initiators do you have? --ep4p
View ArticleRe: NFS with Multipath on DV Switch 5.1?
NFS "multipathing" is (well not really multipathing at all) just network link trunking. So at one switch you would want to have two nics that are used for NFS trunked together, and then at the other...
View ArticleRe: NFS with Multipath on DV Switch 5.1?
TedH256 - so what if we just make mulitple NIC active on dvport. That would do the redundancy too. Right?
View ArticleRe: NFS with Multipath on DV Switch 5.1?
Now how do I setup NFS using the same 4 nics so I can also have multiple path to NFS storage. So if I lose a link I don't lose my NFS datastores? There is no way to configure NFS to actively use...
View ArticleStorage Pool vs. Datastore Cluster
What is the difference between a "storage pool" and a "datastore cluster"?
View ArticleRe: Lab Environment - Testing HA
I ran to an unexpected problem. I boot up from the flash drive, everything went fine except my network card is not recognized. Now I am going bananas looking for a solution. Do you have any...
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try the IBM vmware ISO http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/os/vmware/index.htmlI keep the link here http://sparrowangelstechnology.blogspot.com/2012/09/ibms-customized-vmware-esxi-iso.html
View ArticleRe: Storage Pool vs. Datastore Cluster
storage pool is the disks on the storage side. while a datastore cluster is a defined (by user or storage api) collection of datastores under vcenter. so a storage pool could conssist of the disks of...
View ArticleNFS permission issue
Hi Folks -- nfs datastore issue: We have several NFS datastores on ESX5i hosts -- when we create a new file - the permission of the files are owned by nobody -- but when we umount and remount using...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade 5.0 U1 to 5.1 and /boot partition size
does du -sh /boot work? hope this helps ~Sai Garimella
View ArticleRe: Upgrade 5.0 U1 to 5.1 and /boot partition size
Where did you see this requirement? Please take a look at e.g. http://rickardnobel.se/esxi-5-0-partitions/ to see what's really required. Afaik there's no difference between ESXi 5.0 and 5.1. André
View ArticleEquallogic iSCSI and EMC Fiber channel same cloud
Nowdays I have a Cloud with 15 hosts and 2 Equallogic (iSCSI) I want to add a EMC VNX 5100 (FiberC) to my cloud. Is there any kind of limitation to use a differente version of SAN in the same cloud ? I...
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Re: Equallogic iSCSI and EMC Fiber channel same cloud
Hi Welcome to the communities. NO,I don't think you will loss any thing as many org using combination of equallogic & EMC. "concentrate the mind on the present moment."
View ArticleRe: Upgrade 5.0 U1 to 5.1 and /boot partition size
The requirement for a 1GB boot device is here:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2032756 "Installing ESXi 5.1 requires a boot device...
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