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Re: ESXi 5.x "I/O Error Occurred"
Yip, just spent the best part of 7 hours f00king about with my ESXI setup and wondering why it took twice as long to do a installation of Win2012 server on a ST2000DM001, as compared to an older...
View ArticleRe: Share Virtual or Physical RDMs between VM,s for Orcale RAC
SCSI Controller type is VMware Paravirtual.RDM selected Physical (Share the Lun between virtual Machines in any esxi server)RDM selected independent persistent.
View ArticleRe: Fully connecting directly attached datastores in an ESXi cluster?
Follow-up question: when configuring the vSphere Storage Appliance for the first time, the final stage indicates: "This VSA Installer will delete the existing data on the local hard disks of each...
View ArticleRe: Fully connecting directly attached datastores in an ESXi cluster?
Hi Sorry echoshaw I can't help you here, because I haven't deployed a VSA yet.But if I remember right, there should are two ways to deploy it. A greenfield as well as a brownfield setup process. So you...
View ArticleRe: Fully connecting directly attached datastores in an ESXi cluster?
I am following the brownfield process. We have ~60 VMs and if they're at risk, I'll need to provision enough temporary storage to back up those ~3 TB of data...
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vMotioning Thin disks from Oracle NAS (NFS) to NetApp NAS (NFS) results in...
Hey everyone, I've got an issue that I can't quite get an answer to...from VMware or NetApp...at least as of yet anyways. I've got an Oracle 7420 which has caused us some heartache with VMware living...
View ArticlevSphere Lost Connection when creating storage... Please Help.
Hello guys, We got a new Dell PowerEdge T320. Started everything with no problem until I get into to creating the Storage. When I try to make a storage, it keeps on loosing connection. Has anyone had...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Lost Connection when creating storage... Please Help.
Please provide some details - e.g. a screenshot of the virtual network configuration - of the network configuration (assuming it's an iSCSI storage). A first guess would be that you may be running...
View ArticleRe: VSA Install fails whatever we do :(
Hi Burtiess. I'm having the same issue, have you resolve yours? Kindly share the solution if any.? Thanks
View ArticleRe: vSphere Lost Connection when creating storage... Please Help.
Any errors in the UI or the logfiles? You are giving us very little to go on
View ArticleRe: HP/3PAR StoreServ 7000
We use the 3Par F400's and now the newer 7400s for our entire VM environment. The arrays have been rock solid, with outstanding performance. Any time you can take an array rated for 12k IOPS and run it...
View ArticleRe: Using VMWare standard license with EqualLogic
Hello,The licensing requirement comes from VMware. MPIO plugins like MEM require either an Enterprise or Enterprise+ license. PSP is Path Select Policy. NMP, is native multipathing PSA is...
View ArticleNFS (inactive) (unavailable) after reboot
I'm doing an internship on VMware. We have 2 ESXi hosts, that both have mounted NFS storage on a RHEL 6.4 NFS server.This NFS server's firewall is on and blocks everything except NFS. When my hosts are...
View ArticleSAN: Single point of failure?
Hi,I have a concern that I can't seem to find an easy answer to through all the marketing gloss! My concern is how to protect against a failure of shared storage but I need to explain how we currently...
View ArticleNew-Hardisk and RDM issues
While trying to add a new raw disk to a VM, it is throwing the error "A general system error occurred: Error creating disk Function not implemented". But the same is happening fine when I tried to do...
View ArticleeSATA local Storage
I need to add a WD 1TB eSATA drive to an ESXi 5.1 R720 host. Can't see any PCIe cards in the compatibility matrix (unless I'm doing it wrong) and have trawled through countless forum posts. Tried...
View ArticleRe: New-Hardisk and RDM issues
Hi , Have you tried giving variables for the input for -VM and -DeviceName i.e $vm= get-vm myvm1 $deviceName=($host1 | get-Scsilun | where {$_.CanonicalName -match "naa"})[0].ConsoleDeviceName where...
View ArticleRe: SAN: Single point of failure?
Depending on the requirements and how much you are willing to spend, you may look for a storage system which either provides a transparent failover out of the box or some API which could be leveraged....
View ArticleRe: SAN: Single point of failure?
How exactly does your existing system fail over between datacenters without users noticing? Surely they access that server via an IP address somewhere? So when a DC dies how does a drdb setup suddenly...
View ArticleRe: NFS (inactive) (unavailable) after reboot
While some ports for NFS are static, others are dynamic and determined by the portmapper. If you want to use a layer 4 firewall, you'll need to define the range that RPC is assigned. This post goes...
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