Re: Major performance issue on SAN.
Ethan, Thanks for the help! and great to be on this forum. Enterprise Flash Drive 3+1Fiber channel is Raid 3+1SATA is Raid 6+2 But since the physical performance wonderfully would that mean the raid...
View ArticleRe: Updating Equallogic Firmware
Hello, There is a PDF that's with the Firmware documentation on the Equallogic Support side, called "OS considerations guide". This has info about setting the disk timeout value for a number of...
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Sorry I missed you were running MEM 1.1.2. That sets the login timeout automatically for ESX. The DiskTimeOut values still need to be set in the VMs though. Also, 6.0.4 will be released soon. I...
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Re: Free SAN in Production Environment
Hi Welcome to the communities. I am using free SAN in my development which is working fine . "You must not lose faith in humanity".
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Re: NFS log error
Hi Welcome to the communities. Its striking to me something wrong with NIC , any hwo you may tried with protocol setting . "You must not lose faith in humanity".
View ArticleRe: Major performance issue on SAN.
Ohh wait! how things have changed during the weekend! so now I'm really confused. My write still sucks regardless but read is now worse than write! my write (Random) is at 50-70MB a sec and read is at...
View ArticleSeparating VMDKs what are the draw backs?
We are redesiging our vSphere environment, there's disgussion about splitting VMDKs onto different LUNs of different tiers. I've been reading this is not a recommended practice. I've attempted to...
View ArticleRe: Major performance issue on SAN.
1) Writes on a VMAX will almost always be faster than reads, because they are always serviced by cache. 2) How many FA ports are you zoned to? How many paths do you have? Are you using RoundRobin or...
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Thank you for the info, So with the MEM 1.1.2 the hosts are already set for the correct timeout? Is it required to configure the DiskTimeOut values in the virtual machines? We have a quite a few in a...
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You are most welcome, You have to set Delayed ACK and LRO on a per node basis. A reboot is required as well. Re: DiskTimeOut. Yes, every running VM needs to have this set and in the case of Windows...
View ArticleRe: Major performance issue on SAN.
We are using 8 FA ports for each cluster, Prod and NonProd. I will need to check to be sure but I think nothing else is using the VMware FA ports. We have 4 paths per LUN. On our production side we...
View ArticleRe: Separating VMDKs what are the draw backs?
You fast create a management nightmare for absolutely no gain. The biggest drawback you run into is when you snapshot a server, and the snapshot disks don't end up where you're expecting. I've seen...
View ArticleVSA and guruplug
Hi Has anyone here installed VSA cluster service on a Guruplug? I get this INFO: Installing VMWare VSA cluster service 5.1.0.0-825153INFO: Unsupported architecture armv5tel. VCS can be installed only...
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Re: Does VSA for make sense for this Robo?
I am playing with it now and the story so far. root@guruplug-debian:~/VMware-VSAClusterService-5.1.0.0-825153-linux/VMware-VSAClusterService/setup# ./install.shINFO: Installing VMWare VSA cluster...
View ArticleVMFS-volume detection
I thought I had an idea about how ESXi detects a VMFS-volume but it seems I was wrong. Questions:How is it possible that VOMA used with a command likevoma -m vmfs -f check -d...
View ArticleRe: Major performance issue on SAN.
OK, so PowerPath/VE. In that case, I'd open a support ticket....this isn't normal at all...
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