Re: USB 3.0 External HDD, connecting to ESXI or ESX....copy speed?
You will not be able to access the USB drive - have you looked at vSPhere Replication - http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Introduction-to-vSphere-Replication.pdf?
View ArticleRe: EMC Grap issue
Are you still getting the same error ? Can you try transferring the Grab file to the ESXi and try only running ./emcgrab ?
View ArticleBroadcom 57712 2x10GbE n'apparait pas en HBA iSCSI
Bonjour, Je viens d'installer dans un IBM x3650 m3 VMWare vSphere 5.1 (ISO d'origine VMWare, avec les dernières mises à jour et tutti quanti) équipé de deux Broadcom 57712 double port 10GbE, d'origine...
View ArticleRe: improving iSCSI performance: Delayed ACK, IOs per path, Large Receive...
That's still making me laugh now, if you want me to quote your blog to you again let me know! Good thing you didn't disagree with yourself and say: who's the fool that wrote that, should be shot!
View ArticleRe: Multiple LUNS
If one of the VM hosts already has a working LUN and datastore assigned to it will adding another LUN (for shared storage with another VM host for vmotion) cause any problems? I need to know this for...
View ArticleRe: Multiple LUNS
TJ, You can add as many LUN's to each or both host as you want to, up to the maximum for each version. The way to set this up will depend on the type of storage you're using (NFS, iSCSI, FC). What...
View ArticleRe: Multiple LUNS
Eric, Thanks for the reply. At our EMC SAN I receive the message when adding a new LUN to the storage group being used for vmotion. "The following LUNS are already contained in a storage group: 54...
View ArticleRe: Multiple LUNS
TJ, vMotion requires both hosts to have access to the LUN at the same time. ESXi handles who has a lock on the files. EMC throws that error because a standard setup would be to have both ESXi hosts...
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Eric, So I can proceed at the informational message with no worries? Thanks, TJ
View ArticleRe: Multiple LUNS
Be sure to add the LUN on the 4.x host first (and then do a "rescan for datastores" on the5.x host). If you add it on the 5.x host you must format it VMFS3 in order for the 4.x host to see the...
View ArticleFC attached RDM - many errors in vmkernel.log
We have multiple ESXi 5.1 hosts attached to an IBM XIV. We are exposing LUNs for use as RDM's. In general this works great. However, we are in the midst of migrating some clusters from iSCSI to FC...
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Re: FC attached RDM - many errors in vmkernel.log
Perhaps we shouldn't be using round robin with MSCS http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1037959 Will have to see if there's a plugin...
View ArticleMicrosoft Failover Cluster across hosts (Best Practicies)
Hi, I am question for implementation the MSCS across two hosts. What it is recommended to use between VM's, shared VMDK or disk RDM? Obs.: The environment has two hosts and storage DAS. Thanks ...
View ArticleRe: Microsoft Failover Cluster across hosts (Best Practicies)
Have you looked at VMware's guide for MSCS - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-511-setup-mscs.pdf
View ArticleIO issues after going from thick to thin
hi guys I have a Suse 10 SP2 VM that it looks like after converting it to thin provisioning I am getting these errors in /var/log/messages and also we have seen some issues in the VM like slowne...
View ArticleiSCSI with Multiple NICs
Can anyone point me to good documentation on setting up iSCSI port groups for multiple NICs? We're using 4 interfaces on each host. Does that mean we need 4 IPs (one for each interface)? Or a single...
View ArticleRe: iSCSI with Multiple NICs
Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware vSphere™ Storage What storage system are you working with?
View ArticleHost LUN IDs EMC Storage Groups Boot From San
EMC as a best practice recommends a Host be giving access to only one storage group however LUNs can be members of multiple storage groups, When booting from SAN the Host needs exclusive access to the...
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