Re: Troubleshooting ESXI5
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View ArticleRe: HP P2000 G3 FC Direct Attach?
mikeyb79 schrieb: The Qlogic 4000 (qla4xxx) family are iSCSI HBAs.Not sure why they would show on the HCL as being suitable for FC Direct Attach. Yes you are right.Thanks for the answer. Do you have...
View ArticleHP StorageWorks x1600 - getting best out of SAN
Hi all, Here is our kit: - x1 HP StorageWorks x1600 G2 SAN (x6 2TB SATA 7.2k HDDs in RAID 10, giving approx 6TB space) - Runs Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Std - x3 LUNS presented to the Hosts...
View ArticleRe: How many paths?
For a VNX, with this config, I'd probably expect to see 4path to a given LU. Each initiator (sounds like you have 2 iSCSI VMKs) will see 2 targets each (ports on the VNX). 2 * 2 = 4.
View ArticleRe: vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Cluster Service Offline Alert fridays
Any new information here?
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Re: HP StorageWorks x1600 - getting best out of SAN
Hi Welcome to the communities. You should configure cluster storage to over come disaster or storage fail. "With normal actions you get normal results."
View ArticleRe: HP StorageWorks x1600 - getting best out of SAN
I'm not qualified to discuss Windows Storage server...but I can talk about latencies. 10-15ms for SATA disks actually isn't that bad, and doesn't indicate a major problem. That *is* on the edge of...
View ArticleiSCSI configuration with broadcom hba esxi 5.1
Could someone confirm I have set this server up in a recommended way for ISCSI speed and resiliance? 1.x ESXI 5.1 / vCenter 5.11 x Equalogic SAN1 x Poweredge R510 with a broadcom 5709 DUAL PORT2 x...
View ArticleEMC Requirements
We are running an ESX Advanced 4.1 host with a fiber attachment to an EMC Clarion NS120 SAN. Is the EMC Navisphere and Powerpath software necessary to configure Vsphere to see and utilize the disk from...
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Navisphere and Powerpath are not required. You do need FLARE 28 or above (pref. FLARE 30).
View ArticleRe: HP StorageWorks x1600 - getting best out of SAN
ras2a wrote: My last question is regarding 'average' read/write latencies for decent performance? Bear in mind, our SAN is using SATA disks running @ 7.2k, For those hard disks, and particularly...
View ArticleRe: SSD datastore performance
Do you have FastPath option? This will significantly improve IO performance for SSD. I'd also create RAID-50 for the 8 SSDs.
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THANK YOU for the glorious "why didn't I think of that" moment. vMotioning my VMs now and will rebuild with RAID 50. Have looked at FastPath however wasn't quite sold on it. Do you have firsthand...
View ArticleHP/3PAR StoreServ 7000
Good morning. I know the HP/3PAR StoreServ 7000 is relatively new, but HP has reportedly been shipping quite a few, so I was wondering who out in the community is running either the 7200 or 7400 in...
View ArticleRe: Anyone using QSAN P- series ISCSI san?
I am also interested in purchasing a Qsan after evaluating these units: QNAPSynologyDellHP QNAP doesn't support SASSynology doesn't have enough stock in our country (South Africa)Dell 3200i seems good,...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Cluster Service Offline Alert fridays
Hi Daniel, No. I still see an Cluster down fault ever friday. I uploaded logs to VMwaer support but we were not able to solve it. I requested to close the VMware support case and awaits the next...
View ArticleRe: Troubleshooting ESXI5
Thanks that was nice. I was thinking , if there is a way to calculate the IOPs for the storage types. I learnt that .
View ArticleRe: Error creating datastore in ESXi
I have faced this same problem in my lab few days back. Hit this forum post & found no resolution so saved it so I can post the resolution when I find it.That seems to normally happen if your LUN...
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