Re: Which Vmware NMP policy has to enable for Active/Active storage(DMX-3).
The PSP can be changed online just fine without impacting running VMs on the datastore. No reboots required either.
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Why would you use RDMs instead of giving the LUN to the hypervisor and formatting with VMFS? After creating a datastore, use a SCSI controller on the guest and .... As far as I can tell, the VSAN is a...
View ArticleRe: Planning a new storage solution
Wait. The local storage is going to be faster than storage that hits a network. The PCI bus is faster than 10GbE.Do you mean you'd put a faster array at the other end of the iSCSI path? If you just...
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Virtual Environment VMware ESXi 5.1.0 & Storage (iSCSI storage area network -...
Okay where do I start..... My goal is to design and implement a secure, and scalable virtual lab infrastructure using VMware virtualization software (ESXi 5.1.0) on enterprise-grade computing and...
View ArticleRe: Which Vmware NMP policy has to enable for Active/Active storage(DMX-3).
Hi MKguy, pls let me know procedure of how to change from "Fixed" policy to "Round-robin" policy and what precautions we have to take pre-activity and post activity.Am new to Vsphere Client ,it will...
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Re: Planning a new storage solution
Yes, that would be true if the local storage were all hardware raid and running a raid 5 or faster, I guess. But one of the servers are only using single disks since it only supports software raid, and...
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Atomliu; I'm definitely checking that one out, thanks for the tip!
View ArticleRe: Clarification/confirmation on datastore size for snapshots
I need to add to this. Not only are we getting the file <unspecified filename> is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore I am also getting An error occurred while quiescing the...
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Re: Planning a new storage solution
Phatsta wrote: Yes, that would be true if the local storage were all hardware raid and running a raid 5 or faster, I guess. But one of the servers are only using single disks since it only supports...
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Atomliu wrote: Maybe it is a good solution to build a high available iSCSI SAN .Check here :KernSafe High-Availability iSCSI SAN for VMWare ESX / ESXi ServerThe Enterprise version just needs about...
View ArticleRe: Clarification/confirmation on datastore size for snapshots
Snapshot .vmdk files contain metadata (grain tables, ...) which requires additional disk space, so the size of the snapshot .vmdk file could become larger than the original virtual disk file. In order...
View ArticleLost connectivity to Storage Device
I have an IBM DS3524 Storage Subsystem connected with one fiber channel adapter to an IBM server with ESXi 5.0. I am seeing some large numbers when I run esxtop. My DAV/CMD goes up to 168 or 90 every...
View ArticleRe: vSphere NFS Storage Architecture - Virtual Disks required to be mounted...
I do want to limit the surface of the storage network and the complexity of managing large numbers of dual-homed VMs and NFS Exports. As I worked through this solution, we came to an agreement that a...
View ArticleRe: Problem with multi connections on iSCSI Target
You certainly can not connect to the iSCSI target with full access from two clients except clients in cluster..This can damage the disk....
View ArticleNew Datastore not showing the expected amount of storage
I am running vSphere 4.1 and have just created a new array and Datastore on my SAN. It has the capacity of 2,233.641 GB. ( 5 x 600 GB drives @ RAID 5). It is now attached to VMWARE and I have added...
View ArticleRe: New Datastore not showing the expected amount of storage
The maximum LUN size supported in Vsphere4.1 is 2T -512 Bytes.Please refer http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf Page # 3. A single datastore greater than 2TB is not supported,...
View ArticleRe: New Datastore not showing the expected amount of storage
I don't quite understand as I am not going up to 2TB - 512bytes. Are you saying that because I have added to many disks to the SAN that this may be causing the problem? I currently have other another...
View ArticleRe: New Datastore not showing the expected amount of storage
You mentioned that the datastore you have created is on a LUN with 2233GB. and you have created a datastore on that. A LUN size greater than 2048 GB is not supported in VMware 4.1.
View ArticleRe: New Datastore not showing the expected amount of storage
Okay I accept that greater than 2TB-512 Bytes is not support. For me to get that amount of space to be available for a VM will I need the following ...SAN - 4 drives @ 600 GB Raid 5 (Segment Size = 128...
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