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Re: svMotion large RDM
It will always depend on how fast your machines are as well as your Internet connection. The better they are, the faster they can finish extracting such large amount of data.
View ArticleAbout Vmware Storage
Hi All, I am a little confused about this SAN technology. I see NetApp , EMC and Brocade. But I don’t understand the role they play in Storage. Are they Hardware? Storage devices? Or software’s? I...
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View Articleh:x07 error in vmkernel
Dear Team On one ESX host we are not able to take image backup getting error "Failed to export disk" network disruption error, not able to take a clone, we have confirmed there is no network issue,...
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Re: Path thrashing or LUN Thrashing???
Please have a look.. http://www.108.bz/posts/it/about-path-thrashing-and-why-you-should-always-zone/ abirhasan
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Re: What is the max file size of a vmsn file?
weinstein5 is right.VMSN file file will grow up day by day. There is no max size it depends on how may snapsort you have taken. abirhasan
View ArticleNPIV question
Hi All,I have one question for NPIV setting, I already enabled FC switch side NPIV, followed the document and generated VM node WWNN/WWPN(options-->fibre chanel NPIV), but after the VM host power...
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I haven't used NPIV myself, but as far as I understand, your VM merely sees the FC LUNs you present as ordinary SCSI disk devices on it's virtual SCSI controller, just like it would with a normal VMDK...
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Thanks a lot for your reply, I had stopped NPIV setting for this purpose. And I still have another questions for SR-IOV, is it supported by esx + fibre? I searched the document, all the examples are...
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And I still have another questions for SR-IOV, is it supported by esx + fibre? I searched the document, all the examples are ethernet implement.You're right, SR-IOV is only intended for...
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Re: NPIV question
My ESX server have only 2 FC ports, but I have more than 2 VM nodes, and I want to all of these VM nodes have virtual HBA assigned. I'm not sure if this possible for this purpose Thanks
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I'm afraid this won't be possible:- NPIV let's you assign virtual WWNPs per guest, but it's more of a logical abstraction as your guest simply sees a SCSI disk on a SCSI controller like when you map...
View Articlehow to Virtualize the physical server and add LUNs as RAW device mapping?
Hi All, We have a windows 2008R2 physical server(A) connected with iSCSI storage adapter in SAN storage. We need to virtualize this physical server and attach the SAN storage as RAW device mapping....
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Re: RAW LUN and Backup of VM
Is the max size for ESXi 5.0 RDM is only up to 64TB? Does it exceeds more than that?
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Thanks a lot for your answer, I already stopped my test.IBM logical domain can share the HBA to all of the guest system, so I want to do the same settig at my Vmware sever.
View ArticleVMDKs vs LUNs
I would like to get some practical feed back on pros and cons of VMDKs vs LUNs. I see two possible (well three but the third is well disucussed) ways to divide up my SAN storage for presentation to...
View ArticlePlanning a new storage solution
I've got some budget funds to spend, and would really like to upgrade in terms of storage. Today I'm using 3 HP servers with 12 virtual Machines stored in local raid arrays, and backup to a QNAP NAS...
View ArticleRe: VMDKs vs LUNs
Definitely option 2, as it scales better and is easier to manage on both ends. Option 1 could have some use, if you are replicating LUNs or using SAN snapshots, but I would say it is the exception.
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View ArticleCan't make multiple hosts accessing other host's local datastore
Hi! I'm struggling with a problem I have no clue how can I resolve it. I have a cluster of ESXi 5.1.0 799733 with 3 hosts and a shared iSCSI storage. I'm doing vMotion well, since my VM's file are...
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