ESXi on Macbook Pro 5,4 HDD
I have an old Macbook Pro 5,4 that I'd like to install ESXi 5.1 on. The installation works great from a USB and I can get through it, except it does not recognize my Macbook's internal HDD. This is a...
View ArticleRe: Fully connecting directly attached datastores in an ESXi cluster?
Hi in this case you need something like a virtual appliance which uses your local storage to turn it into a shared storage. Your hosts then can access the storage via iSCSI/NFS. In the end you will...
View ArticleRe: Shared storage recommendations for 3xESXi 5.1 host cluster
Hi Just saw that there is a successor of the P2000, the MSA 2040 http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/pdfs/4AA4-6608ENW.pdf
View ArticleRe: New Storage
We use thin volumes and luns, and thick VMDKs, in general. In general (whether NetApp or another storage vendor), most will recommend using thin provisioning on either the backend, or in vSphere, but...
View ArticleRe: Noisy neighbor with RDMs
Does the degradation in performance closely follow the spike in IOPS on the SQL Server? I have a site that is using the same NetApp back end. We were having serious degradation at times, some of it...
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Re: How to determine if xcopy is being utilized for storage vmotions
TheVMinator wrote: But what if I need to know after it happened whether xcopy was used? You might be able to tell later by study the historic performance charts for your storage adapters. If you see...
View ArticleRe: New Storage
Hi,thanks for sharing.I wan´t to use it as the same way as you implement it.But our vendor told me to use thick FlexVol, Thin Luns and Tick VMDK.But i guess i wan´t to change it to Thin Vol, Thin LUN...
View Articlefalse reporting in edit VM after Inflate disk
Hi, I am using ESXi 5.0 623860. Somehow, I have managed to see some strange situation regarding inflating disk. When I am inflating a thin provisioning disk, the disk grows till the provisioned size....
View ArticleRe: false reporting in edit VM after Inflate disk
Inflating just allocates the disk space, but doesn't change the disk format. To do this you need to e.g. migrate/svMotion the VM.André
View ArticleUsing VMWare standard license with EqualLogic
I'm getting mixed answers on weather it is possible to use Dell Multipathing Extension (MEM) with ESX standard license.I'm also confused about terms like PSP, PSA, NMP, and Storage API. I'm not sure...
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Re: false reporting in edit VM after Inflate disk
Hi Andre, Here the 2nd attempt...looks like the disk reported as thick eager zero.. I wonder why the first one reported as thin..
View ArticleRe: false reporting in edit VM after Inflate disk
I guess I have to admit I was wrong. The expected result of inflating a thin provisioned virtual disk is indeed an eager zeroed virtual disk. With that said I can't tell you why the first attempt...
View ArticleRe: false reporting in edit VM after Inflate disk
No they belong to different datastoreBut registed under the same vCenter Server (Vcenter 5.0 ).
View ArticleRe: false reporting in edit VM after Inflate disk
I will try some different scenario for this..then post the result in here.
View ArticleMigrations from DAS to FC SAN
Hi I have ESXI host on 5.0 and it users Local HDD and a DAS for user profile. I would like to migrate this to the new FC SAN. I have new server, and I have configured EVC. What I am woundering is that...
View ArticleRe: Migrations from DAS to FC SAN
Welcome to the Community - you will have to use storage vMotion and you should be able to move the VM fomr DAS to SAN even if the originating host does not have a FC card.
View ArticleRe: Migrations from DAS to FC SAN
Thank you for your reply. I have the vcenter. I would like to change both. Host and Datastore at the same time. Could correct me if I am wrong :1 - I mount the new data store to the new Host2 - I use v...
View ArticleRe: Migrations from DAS to FC SAN
Yes that is correct both hosts need to be managed by the same vCenter -
View ArticleShare Virtual or Physical RDMs between VM,s for Orcale RAC
Hi Techies, I am implementing Oracle RAC on VMware Environment, i am finding difficulty to share RDM between 2 VMs, when try to map with second vm i am getting below error. incompatible device backing...
View ArticleRe: Share Virtual or Physical RDMs between VM,s for Orcale RAC
What are the settings you have on your SCSI bus sharing for both VM's? Have you looked at the deployment guide?
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