Re: vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Cluster Service Offline Alert fridays
Neat/thanks for the reply. I don’t have this issue weekly, but I am seeing it once every couple of months. We opened a support ticket with VMware as well and they wrote it off as a fluke. Since it...
View ArticleRe: HP/3PAR StoreServ 7000
You will never want to switch back to your EVA after you use a 3PAR.I have a P7400 in the lab at work and it's great. iSCSI and Fibre Connections are a nice addition over an EVA. The chuklets will...
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Its worth mentioning that the 7000 is the follow on to the F-class arrays, with newer hardware/software from the V-series. Its not like the hardware/software they run hasn't been out for a while (and...
View ArticleRe: EMC Requirements
Navisphere manager/Unisphere manager is used to manage the EMC storage. And powerpath is the path management software from EMC used in hosts. You may refer to...
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vipinvk, I know what Navisphere manager/Unisphere and powerpath are used for on the EMC end but my question is are do they need to be installed on a VMware host server? Thanks, TJ
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TJ NaviSphere is the UI used to Install,Configure and Maintain the EMC array. Nothing from NaviSphere needs to be installed on the Host(s) Power Path is a High Availability / Multi Pathing software and...
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No, Powerpath (and navisphere also ) is not necessary to make the disks visible in the vsphere .Once done registration and allocation through storage groups in navisphere it should be visible in...
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Also you may refer to http://www.vmware.com/pdf/clariion_wp_eng.pdf
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How is the multi-path managed via the fiber on the Vsphere host is powerpath is not installed??
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ESXi has a built in multipath manager (generally referred to as NMP-native multipathing).
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tjg091 wrote: How is the multi-path managed via the fiber on the Vsphere host is powerpath is not installed??Every other SAN vendor uses VMware's native multipathing software, there's no reason an EMC...
View Articlevsphere Esxi 4.1 - hard disk reconnected lost data
Hi I have ESXI 4.1 running on a HP Proliant managed by Vspherethe VM is a single Windows Server 2008 R2 Stdit is running on a datastore which is a 250GB hard disk on the proliantI have a 1TB disk also...
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The link above explains native multipathing (with different mode) also in detail.
View ArticleVsphere 5.1 - Access rights Problems - GRE WEB Plugin - HP Data Protector 7.01
Hi, I have installed the VMware GRE web client on the VCenter server and all is looking good as it should be.But, when I try to request restore on an vitueal machine I get below error: request has been...
View ArticleRe: vsphere Esxi 4.1 - hard disk reconnected lost data
This definitely looks like the VM has a snapshot (created on Feb, 2nd) and when you re-attached the virtual disk you selected the base disk as it is not possible to connect a snapshot using the...
View ArticleRe: vsphere Esxi 4.1 - hard disk reconnected lost data
thanks for your response André, I really appreciate your help attached are screen shots of the datastore (250GB drive holding the VM with Windows Server 2008 on it) and DISK_1 which is what I thought...
View Articleiscsi datastore lost after esxi host crash
HELLO I HAVE A ISCSI DATASTORE WITH SEVERAL VMS IN A SYNOLOGY NAS. MY HOST WAS DEAD AND I'D LIKE TO ADD THE ISCSI DATASTORE TO A NEW ESXI HOST, BUT ASK ME FOR FORMAT. HOW CAN I ADD WITHOUT FORMATING...
View ArticleRe: iscsi datastore lost after esxi host crash
Welcome to the Community - So I understand you correctly your host crahed and you are standing up a new host and want to reconnect it to your external storage device? I am not familiar with the...
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synology rack station is a nas box, where i can configure lun. I want to add a datastore located in a iscsi lun without format it
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yes i want to reconnect it to a external device, with one datastore and several vm's
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