Re: Duplicate LUN ID from different iSCSI Target
Hussain Al Sayed wrote: Found that the VNXe3150 generating LUN ID based on the LUN that's owned by which controller. If LUN created and pointed to SPA and the LUN ID generated as 0 then the second LUN...
View ArticleMoving RDMs from 1 VM to another VM
Hi....I have a weird question. I am using vCenter 5.1.0b on 3 ESXi hosts running ESXi 5.1.0 (914609) and iscsi Dell EQL storage. I have a Win7 64bit VM with 3 HDD, 2 of which are RDMs for storing...
View ArticleRe: Moving RDMs from 1 VM to another VM
Adrianych wrote: - I would not be able to find the "ex-RDMs" or unmounted RDM volumes In what way do you not find it? From the new VM the way should be to add new hard disk, select RDM and then select...
View ArticleChange to Round Robin via PowerCLI?
This may be in the wrong place and if it is, I'm sorry. I'm trying to change all the Datastores on all hosts for a particular cluster to Round Robin, and I came across this PowerCLI script, but I use a...
View ArticleRe: Large volumes, replication issues...
Hi rb51 What is the extact distance between your data-center and your ISP ( the remote site) What speed is your link between the two sites Is this link purley dedicated for replication or is this...
View ArticleFiber Channel -- failed H:0x5 D:0x0 P:0x0
Hi everyone... running into a pretty baffling problem as we're looking to establish FC connectivity from our ESXi 5.x hosts to an IBM Gen2 XIV. We're deploying this at two separate sites with identical...
View ArticleRe: Fiber Channel -- failed H:0x5 D:0x0 P:0x0
Only a thought. Are any of these LUNs used as RDM's for e.g. Microsoft Cluster VMs? André
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All of the LUNs are attached as RDM's to MS SQL servers, but only one or two of those are used in a shared-disk SQL cluster.
View ArticleRe: Fiber Channel -- failed H:0x5 D:0x0 P:0x0
With only two cluster LUNs I'm not sure whether this is related, but at least it's worth readinghttp://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/03/esxi-slow-boot-with-mscs.html André
View ArticleRe: Fiber Channel -- failed H:0x5 D:0x0 P:0x0
Wow. That was it. We actually had a lot more MSCS LUNs than I thought. It was a PITA to pick them all out and change the flag, but once done, rescans now complete in seconds. How VMware Support/IBM...
View ArticleRe: Fiber Channel -- failed H:0x5 D:0x0 P:0x0
Glad to hear this solved the issue.How VMware Support/IBM missed this, I have no idea!Well, I guess the reason I thought of this was that I was just lucky (was it luck???) enough to troubleshoot/solve...
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Re: vSphere 5.1/EMC VNXe 3150 Partial/No Redundancy
The PR # 957273 that you mentioned here is with respect to iSCSI connectivity to the storage, whereas with my case few VMs are FC connected storage and having same issue I would like to know if all...
View ArticleCannot increase datastore size in vSphere
Hello,I have the issue as described in "Cannot grow VMFS datastore, the Increase button is disabled (1035285)".After checking all the possible reasons described in the KB1035285 article, I find that...
View ArticleRe: Cannot increase datastore size in vSphere
Welcome to the Community, Please provide some details about the storage and the datastore size.What's the current size and what's the size of the underlying LUN?What's the VMFS version of the datastore...
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 dell openmanage / lockdown mode
I'm having same problem. Does anyone have a solution to this?
View Articlesvmotioned vm but left rdmp files
I svmotioned a vm, both its virtual disks and rdm to a different lun. but now on the old lun that it was on it still has the same name of the vm folder and the contents have...
View ArticleRe: Cannot increase datastore size in vSphere
Some details about the storage and the datastore size:What's the current size and what's the size of the underlying LUN?The current size of the datastore is 1.82TBWhat's the VMFS version of the...
View ArticleRe: Large volumes, replication issues...
Apologies for the late reply... We have a mpls 1Gbps connection to our ISP..... The link is not dedicated for replication... Any suggestions???
View ArticleRe: Cannot increase datastore size in vSphere
I can't tell you for sure what's the reason for this, but I guess it's related to having more than a single partition VMFS on the installation disk. Resizing the VMFS partition requires...
View ArticleRe: Cannot increase datastore size in vSphere
Hi André, Thank you very much for answering my questions, I found there is only one partition of the VMFS,but there are some VFAT format volumes when I use "esxcli storage filesystem list" command....
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