Re: Cannot increase datastore size in vSphere
Hi Corey: I have only one ESX host. Thank you,KuoHsin
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I have found a possible cause of the issue:I use the "partedUtil get" command to get the information of the disk and it prints the followingError: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as...
View ArticleRe: How to setup USB storage devices on ESXi hosts ?
But how do I do that ? How would I set up the ESXi to detect the USB storage device ?
View ArticleRe: How to setup USB storage devices on ESXi hosts ?
ESXi will not detect the storage device directly. You can create a VM, edit the settings, and then create a USB adapter and mount it to the host's USB device. When you power on the VM it will have...
View ArticleRe: vSphere 5.1/EMC VNXe 3150 Partial/No Redundancy
Thanks drysdale, not sure why I get conflicting reports from the VMware support team, but it makes sense what your saying.
View ArticleVirtual Storage Appliance with Essentials+
Hi,First - hopefully I am asking this in the correct forum. I am having trouble finding information or documentation identifying [any] differences or limitations of the Virtual Storage Appliance...
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There is no difference in the vSA between versions of vSphere. read the below to get a full overview of the features....
View ArticleBasics - difference between LUN and datastore?
Hi, Can someone tell me the difference between a da LUN and a datastore? My understanding is that that a datastore is what you see in the Vsphere client - i.e. either a local disk on an ESXi host or a...
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Hi, if you have a SAN, a LUN is a piece of your SAN, some vendors call it virtual disc. Let's say you have a 10TB RAID 6 Array in your SAN. You can split that into 2TB blocks in your SAN-management and...
View ArticleRe: Basics - difference between LUN and datastore?
Cheers schepp, Am I right in saying it's generally a bad practice to have multiple datastores on a single LUN, but the other way around is OK? I'm thinking of going with a 1:1 data store to LUN...
View ArticleHigh latency from only one host
Hello. I recently upgraded to vsphere 5.1.0b, running build 1021289 on my esxi hosts. I run NFS over 10 GbE on my Netapp with Intel X520-DA2 SFP+ nics in my hosts, and a HP Procurve 10 GbE network...
View ArticleRe: Storage Migration, Capacity and Excel
Excellent! Sounds like you are on your way. You should also consider testing out the NetApp "Balance" virtual appliance if you aren't already. It provides huge reporting benefits. You can get a...
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VM move to NFS now Hard Disk shows 0MB?
I recently transfered some old VMs to NFS export on a new ESXi 5.1. Now all the VMs show Hard-disk as 0MB. I cannot power-on or do anything with the VM. It seems as the .vmdk file are inaccessable....
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Hi,Sounds like a problem with the file descriptors, take a look athttp://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002511Many tx
View ArticleRe: Basics - difference between LUN and datastore?
Hi, I use one datastore per LUN as well, for reasons of clarity . But don't know why you shouldn't use more datastores per LUN. aetius1980 wrote:If I wanted to tier out my storage for different...
View ArticleRe: VM move to NFS now Hard Disk shows 0MB?
Thanks for the reply. But I cannot create Large files on NFS. Getting this error while I try to create a temp.vmdk "Failed to create virtual disk: The destination file system does not support large...
View ArticleRe: VM move to NFS now Hard Disk shows 0MB?
Hi, I agree with JCMorrissey, its problem with virtual disk descriptor file, from datastore browser we should not be seeing flat disk, in your case we see it, that mean, virtual disk descriptor file...
View ArticleUnable to statically add an iscsi volume
I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue as well. vSphere Version: 5.1 I am trying to add a static connection to my iSCSI volume on my NAS unit using the vSphere GUI and the command line....
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vSA RAID configuration and disk-types
hey guys! in vsphere-storage-appliance-511-release-notes vmWare says that there is actually no support for RAID 1 and only limited support for SATA3 disks. i would like to know whether someone of you...
View Articlecan't shrink vmdk with vMotion
vsphere 4.1Windows Server 2008 sp2 VMSecond HDD has 166 GB free now after cleanup Sdelete -c e: (e is the disk i'm looking to shrink)Migrate from datastore with 4MB block size to datastore with 2MB...
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