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Re: RDM-LUN mapping
Hi there a.p. well at least I know the true reality thanks . Still I haven't found a way to prove that RDM files are sparse files and how to investigate them on ESXi. Normally I would that as explained...
View ArticleExporting OVF templates to NFS Storage?
Hi, I have a View desktop and the vSphere 5.client installed. I would like to export an OVF template to a NFS volume but my only choices are local. How would I connect to the NFS volume/datastore so I...
View ArticleAll Local Storage Does not Appear
Greetings to All We have a new Dell server with ESXi5.1 preloaded. It has 6 x 300GB SAS drives locally installed. There is no external storage. When I go to setup a datastore it only shows ~1.1TB of...
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Is VMFS (5.1) really capable of high I/O with multiple hosted .VMDK files?
Is this a simple question? IHAC that has recently migrated from ESX 4.1 to ESXi5.1 on a 2 host cluster. Along the way their storage back end blossomed to 7 VMFS volumes. I'll call the 1.8TB volume...
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Ooops resolved this. It is due to RAID set via the iDrac
View ArticleRe: Is VMFS (5.1) really capable of high I/O with multiple hosted .VMDK files?
EMC and others have demonstrated a single VM pushing over 1M IO/s...ESXi is almost never the bottleneck. Your disks probably are. Also, consolidating into a single LUN is bad. 1 LUN = 1 queue =...
View ArticleVAAI - Extended Statistics for NAS
Hi, It appears VAAI gives you the ability to see extended stats when using NAS storage. However, I am not sure how I could actually see those stats in the vCenter client.I don't see to get any...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 -> 5 / VMFS 3 -> 5 migration and live Storage vMotion
You can also use handy free tool called Quick Migration, provided by Veeam. With it, it’s possible to move VMs between old and new hosts even if new datastore can’t be seen by old host. When I’ve...
View ArticleRe: VAAI - Extended Statistics for NAS
AFAIK, EMC has a VAAI plugin for NAS... Can you provide the source of information for me to check... You can run esxtop on ESXI ssh to check but I havent seen it...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 shows a datastore with no free space but it's empty
Can you connect to the ESXi host directly using root credentials on vsphere client and check if you notice the same status....
View ArticleThin provisioned datastore out of space
Hello, one of our customers has a NetApp system exporting NFS datastores to his ESXi 5.0 environment.All VMs are thin provisioned. Last night his single datastore ran out of space. Currently some of...
View ArticleRe: Thin provisioned datastore out of space
Unfortunately the results of an out-of-space condition are unpredictable.What you may do is to check each VM individually to find out whether a simple restore of the latest .vmx file (or recreation...
View ArticleRe: Thin provisioned datastore out of space
A restore of the .vmx files or a recreation from the vmware.log files was not possible, since the .vmx files where completely empty. We basicly recreated all the VMs from scratch and attached the...
View ArticleNew to Netapp - 3200
Hey Everyone, On Monday we will be deploying a 3200 device, our first SAN at this company. I have worked in other Enterprise environments using EMC Fiber Channel but I am wondering what you would do...
View ArticleRe: New to Netapp - 3200
Man - if I had just bought of the the premier NFS platforms on the planet...you'd have to come up with a good reason for me to NOT use NFS.... ...and I say this even as an EMC employee.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 shows a datastore with no free space but it's empty
no, none of these worked.Weird as it was working fine till three weeks ago and nothing got changed. I will schedule an upgrade to 5.1 and see if I have better luck.
View ArticleAlerts for NFS?
Is anyone aware of native alerting capabilities for NFS? I don't see any NFS (VC 5.0) alerts within the list of alerts native to VC, but not sure if there is a way to modify/augment the standard...
View ArticleRe: VAAI - Extended Statistics for NAS
I see these when performing a capture with ESXTOP, but I don't think they are exposed in the vSphere client. You may want to increase the vSphere stats collection to the maximum and see if they are...
View ArticleRe: Alerts for NFS?
fyi - testing this now: To workaround the problem in 5.0 you can do the following:- Connect to vCenter using VI Client- Select vCenter on the left hand panel (the root of the inventory tree)- Open...
View ArticleRe: VAAI - Extended Statistics for NAS
Thanks Mark, I can't see them under ESXtop at this stage but may be looking in wrong spot. If I go ESXtop and specify U for disk device I see my NFS volumes but not the stats you mention. Toggling the...
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