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hello, to everybody. currently I build up following infrastructure on vmware vsphere 5.1 Enterprise... the following is given: hardware:7x hp DL 380 g7 server with 2 sockets cpu and in each case 192 GB...

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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?

July 3, 2013, 11:58 pm

when you converted the servers did you run post migration clean up processes? things like clearing our shadow devices etc

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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?

July 4, 2013, 12:05 am

I wouldn't P2V a database server personally. I know that you can do it and I know it can be successful, but I'd rather build a new server and migrate the databases to it manually. This will typically...

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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?

July 4, 2013, 12:09 am

agreed, but a amalgam of both usually works. whenever I am P2V'ing a DB or Exchange server (read any server with heavy datachange) I get a migration window where I can stop all necessary services. This...

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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?

July 4, 2013, 12:30 am

it is not only the P2V machine. we also created brandnew machines on the infrastructure to build a test environment.we only converted the production servers through the vm ware converter.the...

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VAAI ScsiDeviceIO H:0x7 failure with HP FC HBA / Fujitsu storage

July 4, 2013, 12:58 am

It appears that only with Firmware Version V10L47-0000, a FujitsuEternus DX90 S2 will fully utilize VAAI (Details available in FujitsuSupport document SB-STO-13023). After upgrading to that firmware...

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Re: vaai - Delete status "unsupported"

July 4, 2013, 12:51 pm

Thanks for Replying Akash.I did figured this out. The 10G lun mentioned in my post was actually a Basic lun and not a Thin Provisioned LUN, obviously UNMAP will say "unsupported". PK.

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Re: VAAI - Extended Statistics for NAS

July 5, 2013, 6:07 am

I see those metrics in perfmon (add counter) after collecting ESXTOP data in batch mode. Duncan hits on the process here - ESXTOP - Yellow Bricks - go to capturing esxtop results.

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Can't Storage Vmotion between EMC Celerra NFS and VNX NFS

July 5, 2013, 6:23 am

Recently we upgraded our VMware infrastructure from 3.5 to 5.0. Managed to migrate all the vms to the Esxi5.0 without any issue. More recently we purchased new EMC VNX 5300 storage, set them up and...

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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?

July 5, 2013, 6:58 am

I think you have done everything right on the vSphere side. What is the NetApp storage system telling you? Are you hitting any CPU spikes, back-to-back CP's, are you overdriving your spindles? What...

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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?

July 5, 2013, 9:01 am

hello to all, i've did a lot of testing the last two days and found out this: on another infrastructure i have two physical hp dl380 g7 servers running for oracle rac and red hat linux enterprise.the...

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Re: Can't Storage Vmotion between EMC Celerra NFS and VNX NFS

July 5, 2013, 10:03 am

Hi, Does ESXI host , root, reat&write permission with no_root_squash on Storage array. RegardsMohammed

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Re: Can't Storage Vmotion between EMC Celerra NFS and VNX NFS

July 5, 2013, 9:25 pm

Definitly sounds like missing permissions on the export. Also, did you follow the VNX techbook - there are VERY specific filesystem options you need to have to get the best performance out of NFS.

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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?

July 5, 2013, 10:59 pm

Multipathingpolicywaschanged toRound Robin?

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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?

July 6, 2013, 12:19 am

Yes, all storage datastores who are added are set to Round Robin (Mulitpathing) and all channels are set to active I/O

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