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Re: Compellent Storage Questions
Hi Welcome to the communities. I will recommend to follow the steps asper documented on dell KB. In the real scenario no one has enough skill to guide all the option available with product except...
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Re: Storage profiles per harddisk
Hi Welcome to the communities. My first question would be storage are added properly with ESX, Check the volume connected with cluster or not. "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a...
View ArticleClustered SAN/NAS for vSphere - Suggestions
SME with around 12tb of data (growing but slowly), fully virtualised (5.1), the usual AD, Exchange, File Servers etc. We have a large physical campus with our own fiber everywhere which means we can do...
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Re: Clustered SAN/NAS for vSphere - Suggestions
Hi Welcome to the communities. If performance not a matter you may use lot of free tool . through which you can provision local disk to SAN \NAS. "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a...
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The main thing I found when considering this is that the price of HP's Storevirtual VSA + 2 x ML350s is not far off the cost of 2 x P4000 Hardware SANs. Be aware that, with all that array acceleration,...
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There's a huge "it depends". If I've worked on a customer's environment, I usually have a better feel for its requirements than any automated tool from any vendor. I know I've run the VMware Capacity...
View ArticleRe: Clustered SAN/NAS for vSphere - Suggestions
That's a fair point, I think one big difference here is that we need to replace the hosts anyway (storage/hosts are part of the same lease) so once you factor in that you're paying a certain amount for...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Storage DRS
I am working with Martin in this issue.This is now also happening with manual Storage vMotion. Regards,Pablo.-
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Yes, this is View 5.1.1 and vSphere 5.1 almost last updates.
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Ok, that explains it. Storage vMotion and Storage DRS is not supported with VMware View.Use the rebalance-funtionality in View instead to redistribute the linked clones. // Linjo
View ArticleRe: Problems with Storage DRS
As stated in the View Documentation, http://pubs.vmware.com/view-52/topic/com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUID-B498C846-C7FE-4D37-9899-7857BA7C706B.html, Storage vMotion is not supported for moving...
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Hi, thanks for the quick response, this is not working with View Composer, all the VMs are full VMs.
View ArticleIometer workload profiles for Oracle and Sharepoint
What are some good workload profiles to use in iometer for Oracle and Sharepoint, in terms of % read, % write, % random, % sequential, and data size? Thanks!
View ArticleVSphere 5.1 Compatibility with Buffalo terastation
We are looking for a storage server to be used in a two VSphere host environment. We are considering the below Buffalo Terastation. I couldn't find it listed in the compatibility site, I'm assuming...
View ArticleRe: VSphere 5.1 Compatibility with Buffalo terastation
VMware Certified and VMware Supported are two different things. If the product is not on the VMware HCL, you may find yourself in a situation that, if it requires you to get ahold of VMware Support...
View ArticleNetApp FAS2240 vs Dell MD3620i
We have a tough decision on our hands, and I'm looking for some serious real-world experience to (hopefully) help us make a purchasing decision. Here's a very brief overview of our environment for...
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Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware vSphere™ Storage
View ArticleRe: Troubleshooting Software iSCSI performance
Hi, I installed the NetApp plugin some days ago (after reading about it in the document mentioned in the previous reply) and used it to apply the recommended settings.But it didn"t change anything, as...
View ArticleAdd datastore
Hello!I have a problem when adding a datastore.When I go into Add Datastore >>> Disk / Lun >>>There appears no record, but I click the Devices it shows me two disk.But it is not...
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