Re: Best Practice Minimum Free Space on Datastore (Prod and No-Prod VMs)
As mentioned before, it depends on several parameters. Once is certainly snapshotting as you already mentioned, another important one is whether the VMs are thin provisioned and the datastore is...
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Thanks Andre & Suresh, We are using thick provisioned VMs in our environment. Is there any official VMware artical where we can check the same. The percentage however may vary depending on the...
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I don't know whether there's an official documentation about how much disk space exactly you should reserve. The vCenter Alert for Datastore Usage is set to 75% (Warning) and 85% (Alarm), so this may...
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this http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003412 was I think quoted earlier by a respondent. It gives fairly clear guidelines: ESX...
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I am not sure about the official document for this but each virtual machine has its own swap file which is going to be created when the VM is powered on which is equivalent to the size of the RAM...
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Re: Storage profiles per harddisk
Hi Welcome to the communities. My first question would be storage are added properly with ESX, Check the volume connected with cluster or not. "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single...
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Re: Compellent Storage Questions
Hi Welcome to the communities. I will recommend to follow the steps asper documented on dell KB. In the real scenario no one has enough skill to guide all the option available with product except...
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Re: Clustered SAN/NAS for vSphere - Suggestions
Hi Welcome to the communities. If performance not a matter you may use lot of free tool . through which you can provision local disk to SAN \NAS. "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a...
View ArticleIncrease size of existing Datastore
Dear Team, Can i increase size of existing datastore instead of creating extents. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleRe: Increase size of existing Datastore
My understanding is that with 5.1 you can just "expand" the datastore: however, I believe that under the covers, it is still an "extent" because the raw disk has to be marked with the begin-end info of...
View ArticleBest practice for location of VMs?
Hi, I have some questions regarding datastores and the location of the VMs. Question:The new environment gives us the possibleity to just put the whole VM in one datastore and still get the performance...
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vSphere 4 and newer allow growing datastores on shared storage on the fly (i.e. online). First expand the LUN, rescan then grow the datastore, which is actually nothing more than resizing the existing...
View ArticleIntegrating management of StarWind iSCSI Target to VCenter/vSphere
Hi everyone! I'm a developer from StarWind Software that participates in TAP of VMware. May you help me to clarify some points concerned with the task of integrating management of StarWind iSCSI Target...
View ArticleLoad Based Teaming to Netapp filer with multiple vifs
Good day everyone! We are deploying vSphere 5 for our view environment, and are running into issues. We used to use fast etherchannel for active/active load balancing, but now are switching to vDS...
View Articlevmdk file
hi there we have a server where the vmdk file increases automatically, but is crippling the server as its using all the available space. i cant see where the data is being used on the server, only that...
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Welcome to the Community - There are two reasons why I VMDK would grow - The file was configured as a thin provisioned disk - this means the disk will grow as the disk is written to - the down side is...
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thanks for the response if the disk was set to thin, would the server disk keep a % buffer? the weird think is that the server is showing the disk as having 15% free space and the size being 120GB, but...
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Yes - that or anything that is touching blocks can cause a thin VMDK to grow.
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