Re: vmdk file
Please post a list of files you see in the VM's folder. A screen shot of the Datastore Browser window which shows the file names, sizes and time stamps will do. André
View Article? Datastore datastore-XXX is not correlated to datastore XXXXXX, but the...
I received an alarm email about Datastore usage (97%), only to find no alarms and 60% by the time i logged in. What do these entries in the log mean?: 2013-08-14T01:14:14.459-05:00 [05252 info...
View ArticleRe: vmdk file
At least they show there are no hidden snapshots which use the disk space. What I am confused about is that the "Provisioned Size" column doesn't show up. Anyway, a agree with the other posters that...
View ArticleRe: vmdk file
What I am thinking of is the provisioned size of the virtual disks as it shows up in the individual VM's settings. André
View Articlecommand 0x2a to device failed h:0x7 d:0x0 p:0x0
Dear Team, One VM located on san lun (only THIS vm is running on this lun) we have poweredon this vm in afternoon but stuck on filesystem check is running very slow , that sanlun having 4 extents we...
View ArticleBest Practice for RAID Configuration fo Cisco UCS C420 M3.
I have Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server.The server has 2 Disk Controller (RAID Controller) and each controller manage 8 HDD (Total 16 HDD). I have 2 kinds of HDD capacity, 300 GB and 600 GB.for 8 HDD...
View ArticleRe: HDS HUS-VM vs. NetApp 6220
Vangoose Little surprised at other response but here is current information. This is a reference architecture on using current generation HDS Enterprise NFS platform with VMware...
View ArticleRe: HDS HUS-VM vs. NetApp 6220
xattila wrote:http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/deploy-hitachi-ucp-select-for-vmware-vsphere-using-hnas.pdf HNAS is a rockstar for VMware NFS environmentsSo says the person that bumped a two month old...
View ArticleRe: Increase size of existing Datastore
And what is the max limit for VMFS5, if there is any?
View ArticleRe: Increase size of existing Datastore
The max. LUN size for ESXi5/VMFS5 is 64TB. André
View ArticleRe: Best Practice Minimum Free Space on Datastore (Prod and No-Prod VMs)
On Any datastore there should be 13% free space always. Though this is may not be official but best practice.
View ArticleRe: Problem with multi connections on iSCSI Target
I was trying this out in my lab some time back and I too ran into the similar situation. check this http://forum.gotzu.com/showthread.php?tid=76 I figured out the way to decieve both host by...
View ArticleRe: Unable to remove datastore
I have faced same issue, it was resolve after deleting datastore using command line.partedUtil delete "/vmfs/devices/disks/DeviceName" PartitionNumberI have followed VMware KB...
View ArticleVM won't go away from datastore
hi I am running vcenter 5.1 and ESXi 5.1Theses last days I've been using storage vMotion to arrange my Datastores...so far so good but I have 3 Datastores where I move 4 VMs to another datastore (new...
View ArticleRe: VM won't go away from datastore
Reasons datastores other than the "home" datastore is displayed are:entries in the VM's settings (.iso images for CD-ROM drive, .flp images for Floppy disk drives)active snapshots, where such a...
View ArticleRe: VM won't go away from datastore
that's the issue all these VMs have active snapshots
View ArticleOn a 6TB RAID5 set, which is better 1 large VMFS, 2 medium VMFS or 3 small VMFS?
I am looking at building a RAID5 volume of three 3TB SATA disks on my Adaptec 71605Q controller. I may introduce a 1TB SSD MaxCache at a later date to improve performance though. What is recommended in...
View ArticleRe: On a 6TB RAID5 set, which is better 1 large VMFS, 2 medium VMFS or 3...
Welcome to the COmmunity - First off I am assuming you are running ESX 5 since there is a 2 TB size limitation on LUNs in ESX/ESXi 4 - VMware best practice is a single VMFS datastore per LUN so make a...
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