Re: MD1000 Firmware Update over ESXi 4.1
I'm unfamiliar with that particular SAN, but is there no option to upgrade it from a web interface? Have I read you correctly that you are looking to run a RedHat rpm on the ESXi shell? You shouldn't...
View ArticleXFS datastore over NFS - any tips?
Hey, We are planning a small VMware deployment with 2 hosts using XFS storage mounted over NFS. Does anyone have any tips for setting up the XFS filesystem - e.g. block size? The XFS server is CentOS6...
View ArticleRe: Active vs Passive vs ALUA Storage
So in this case, the Active/Active LUN path is the best choice for performance ? or the same as in ALUA pathing ?
View ArticleRe: Active vs Passive vs ALUA Storage
Thanks for the explanation mate, How about EMC Clariion and VNX series are they Active/Passive or depends on the licensing purchased :-) By using the term "node", do you mean the Storage Processor in...
View ArticlevFlash performance metrics missing
Hi,I’m playing with the new vFlash feature in my vSphere 5.5 lab. All seems to be working…but – I’m unable to find the new Performance metrics in vSphere Web client (when looking on “virtual disk” on...
View ArticlepRDM to pRDM migration?
I use a lot of pRDMs in my vsphere environment (v 5.0 U2), because we have a lot of SQL Server, MS Clusters. However, it's time to purchase a new SAN, and I am wondering what is the best way to go...
View ArticleRe: pRDM to pRDM migration?
I'm not aware of a pRDM migration tool and you'd still have to do this manually from the command line. Anyway, most major storage vendors offer SAN Copy tools (usually free of cost) which even allow to...
View ArticleRe: Confusion on VAAI and EMC array
cshells wrote: I have seen a little bit of documentation showing the use of VUM to install the vaai plugin, I just wasn't sure how this all works. I assume with all arrays, if they support vaai you...
View ArticleRe: NFS to VMFS, VMFS to NFS
The protocol makes little difference on performance. It's mainly the architecture behind the array, the network, and if the use of file based storage is supported with the workload (such as with SQL...
View ArticleStorage vMotion Details
Hello I would like to know if when executing a storage vMotion what path vSphere takes, it uses the LAN network or the SAN network to move the VM files? Because while doing an storage vMotion the SAN...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion Details
Hi, To answer the Question It depends on the Kind of storage you have, If you have iSCSI /NAS Storage then it would use the LAN to transfer the files and if your FC storage then it would use your...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion Details
Basically the storage traffic uses the SAN network. However, what you explain sounds as if you are using vSphere 5 with VAAI support. In this case the migration might take place on the storage system...
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Re: Storage vMotion Details
This is my ambient: Two EMC CX4-240 with HDD of 7K SATAII and One HP Blade 7000 First EMC CX4-240 is conected direclty to the Blade SAN switch.Second EMC CX4-240 is conected first at two brocade SAN...
View ArticleVirtual Drive on a Virtual Host
I have a new customer who is running VMWARE Esxi 4.0. One of the virtual servers had a virtual drive called S: provided from the host some how. It showed as a drive in My computer, but did not show as...
View ArticleRe: Virtual Drive on a Virtual Host
May be it was a network drive? If its a VMDK that was added to the VM it will not disappear after a reboot. Ask the guys who know about it. It should probably be a network drive which was mapped to...
View ArticleRe: Virtual Drive on a Virtual Host
No it wasn't a drive mapping. I'm smart enough to recognize those. I think it was called a RAW device mapping in vmware
View ArticleRe: Virtual Drive on a Virtual Host
Even a RDM will show up as a regular disk in the guest, i.e. completely transparent to the OS. When a raw LUN is first attached to a VM, an RDM mapping file (actually two .vmdk files) is created which...
View ArticleUsing local disk storage; each guest OS it's own (physical) disk?
Hello, I’m trying to work out how to deploy my first VMware host. At this point I’m stuck at how to organize the storage. I’ve been reading several documents but they confuse more and more. Some...
View ArticleRe: Using local disk storage; each guest OS it's own (physical) disk?
And I thought that each guest host should get its own physical (SSD) drive.All you gain by this is creating hotspots where certain disks get heavy use and others sit there idle. Should I create one big...
View ArticleRe: Using local disk storage; each guest OS it's own (physical) disk?
Oh and for this..Where can I best install the hypervisior? Most enterprises use SD cards or USB drives to host the hypervisor. It's a lot cheaper than sticking in HDD's when your data is on a SAN, but...
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