iSCSI LUNs on new targets not detected after port binding
We have been using a couple of cheaper iSCSI SANs for a while now as a low-tier compliment to our FC SAN. This has been running well up until recently. As we needed more storage at a higher tier, and...
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I ended up creating a dedicated FreeNAS data server. I found that windows only works for small files and doesn't really work well with Esxi at all. No amount of fiddling made a difference. I recommend...
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Remove datastore from one esxi host only
Hi, We are running vSphere 5.1 with 3 hosts in a cluster and a single ESXi host as a standalone - all four managed through vCenter. To simplify the setup let's say we have 3 LUNs on the same storage...
View ArticleEquallogic Lost Path Redundancy
We recently switched to an Equallogic 6100X array at our Co-Location. Use use Veeam to replicate a few servers to the equallogic through out the day. Since moving to this new array we are receiving...
View ArticleRe: Remove datastore from one esxi host only
Hello, I think that the only solution is removing the Lun Masking, don't touch the Zonning! If you remove the zone, the LUN3 will disappear too. You need to modify the lun masking in the Storage...
View ArticleRe: Equallogic Lost Path Redundancy
What version of ESXi are you running? It sounds like your storage system IS the problem. Eventually, ESXi will consider a path suspect if it does not get the response time that it expects. Different...
View ArticleRe: Equallogic Lost Path Redundancy
I'm running 5.0 update 1. All hosts seem to report the issue within a few minutes of eachother. The weird thing is the volume they report losing redundancy isn't even being used. The only thing I can...
View ArticleRe: iSCSI LUNs on new targets not detected after port binding
I use port binding on 2x ESXi 5.1 hosts each with 2 vmk ports for iSCSI each on a different broadcast domain/subnet without issue. I do manually enter the iSCSI targets on the ESXi hosts though rather...
View ArticleRe: Equallogic Lost Path Redundancy
I can give you an example of what I have seen in the past. I had a Netapp filer that was being shared for SAN and NAS purposes. During backups of our NAS shares, and sometimes during snapshots, the...
View ArticleRe: Equallogic Lost Path Redundancy
Thanks for the info. I opend a case with Dell this morning. I just noticed a strange behavior. I can see each drives load in SANHQ. I see that Drive 0 is being hit very hard (max iops and high read...
View ArticleiSCSI inactive datastore, iSCSI target MIA!
I have a strange problem with iSCSI datastores. One of our junion VM administrators configured and added a new iSCSI LUN to a standalone vSphere 5.1 host. All went well, VMFS-5 volume created and VMs...
View ArticleRe: Remove datastore from one esxi host only
Hi ratease Get the LUN ID from under the storage adapters info and the go into your storage array tools and remove that LUN ID from the hosts you don't want access to it. David
View ArticleRe: Setting MultiPathing Policies on a per-LUN basis
What array do you have Always double check your array vendor supports round robin otherwise you'll cause more problems on your array
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NAS Cert. Help
Hello, I am running NAS certification via workbench with ESXi5.0. When I test “Configuration information and Verification” for Verify, here are some parameters are confused me. What do the Host...
View ArticleRe: Remove datastore from one esxi host only
Isn't that the same as removing it from the zoning, and doesn't it still leave the host unaware of why the storage dissappeared? /Rasmus
View ArticleRe: Remove datastore from one esxi host only
Hi Ratease No zoning is removing access via the servers WWNs doing this will not remove the LUN/Datastore You will just loose one path to your ESX host Cheers David
View ArticleRe: I thought I understood how VMs live in the datastores, but maybe not...
Changing the User Settings on CD/DVD to Client Device removed the Datastore01 reference on the Guest. Still do not know the correct action to follow regarding the existance of /Prod01/ on Datastore05....
View ArticleRe: I thought I understood how VMs live in the datastores, but maybe not...
So there was an ISO on the VM? I though thats what I suggested in the first response... ;-) If the files have not been accessed in a long time I would (after doing a backup of course ) remove them and...
View ArticleRe: Remove datastore from one esxi host only
Hi David, What I mean is: If I remove access through our storage management, the ESXi server will not have a clue why the storage disappeared. Hence it will start generating errors etc. - just like...
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