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Cannot reclaim space on VMFS store
Hey, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I recently took over an ESXi instance, and have run into space issues on the box. Physical Server: HP Proliant DL380p Gen 8OS: ESXi 6.5 U2 Sept...
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I believe VAAI needs to be supported to use unmap
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I have found lots of conflicting information online, some saying VMFS5 will support this, and some saying it does not. I'm going out on a limb and say it doesn't. I did find another workaround - but...
View ArticleESXi 6.5 storage share presentation and vVols
Hi allI would like to ask you for some official documentation regarding Vmware Best Practices on mounting and presenting the volume shares and so vVols from a NetApp storage to a ESXi 6.5 solution...
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Lots of useful informtion on VMware Docs or your storage supplier is likely to have something specific to this Best Practices for vSphere Virtual Volumes Performance HPE GuideVMware VVols on HPE Nimble...
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CiaoDavvero mia domanda è se quale la miglior maniera di fare i montaggi e presentazioni dei volumi dalla NetApp (senza HCI) fino al vSphere datastore, considerando che il datastore è su una rete...
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VMFS Problem
Hi, i have a vSphere 6.5, with 1 VM, after a crash in vm, i reboot the machine and after that my datastore dont show any more. Someone can help to restore vmfs partition ? There is the logs: vmkernel:...
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I try this and i recive this error: Running VMFS Checker version 2.1 in default modeInitializing LVM metadata, Basic Checks will be done ERROR: IO failed: Input/output error ERROR: IO...
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The disk mounted as read only, i tri write somethin in vmfs and i recive this erros. There is some kind of fsck in vmware console ?
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Re: VMware Disk Provisioning with SSD Flash Storage
The Exchange Server writes its data and also creating new items like email to the transaction log files before committing them to the information stores. So each of the mailbox database...
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Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from vmware 5 to vmware 6.7. My servers have a vmware boot on sd card and I think that is a good idea backing it or clone it before the upgrade. I found this article on...
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Hello,dd will read block by block and write it to another device.You can take you card out, put into linux and device and run dd from there or apparently this free...
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Maybe not the answer to your question, but did you consider to use another SD card for the new version?Depending on the complexity of your setup, this might be the best option anyway, and lets ESXi 6.7...
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Hello, thank you for your answers. Of course, I change the sd card for a new sd card, but I have some curiosity to know why the dd returns this issue. dd if=/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0...
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If you really ensure about the Read-Only VMFS datastore, please look at this thread in the community
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Re: VMFS Problem
Hiplease read Create a VMFS-Header-dump using an ESXi-Host in production | VM-Sickbayand create a headerdump as explained - O may be able to help/I can deal with I/O errors Ulli
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