Re: Using local disk storage; each guest OS it's own (physical) disk?
Hi Josh, Thanks for answering. Makes sense that when using individual disks for each guest OS, most of them will be constantly in idle. But in that case I think I would still separate the mass...
View ArticleHow to enable Storage DRS for a VM?
When you do a storage migration of a VM into a Storage DRS cluster there's a tick box that says "Disable Storage DRS for the virtual machine". If this box is ticked, you can pick the datastore to put...
View ArticleVMware Storage I/O Control Performance measure?
Hi All, I want to enable the SIOC on my FC LUNs and I am very much confident it will improve the overall VM performance. But before I do that, a big question comes here is how to measure the...
View ArticleRe: VMware Storage I/O Control Performance measure?
Hi Nick, Here is link which might help you to understand how to use this SIOC feature Debunking Storage I/O Control Myths | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs
View ArticleRe: VMware Storage I/O Control Performance measure?
Hi Memaad, Thanks for the reply. I am fully aware how the SIOC works and all its features and myths. The only thing I am not aware is how to measure and compare its performance with and without it...
View ArticleRe: VMware Storage I/O Control Performance measure?
Hi, One thing that come to my mind is to measure I/O throughput before SOIC enabled and after it is enabled. You can use I/O meter to achieve this. RegardsMohammed Emaad
View ArticleUsing older SAN models for an esxi 5.1 laboratory.
Hi, folks !!!I'm using esxi 5.1 for testing and learning purposes.Such my Budget is really low, because I 'm not working at a directly related virtualization bussiness (usually this is a main task for...
View ArticleRe: Virtual Drive on a Virtual Host
I am very sorry about this. This ended up being a mounted encrypted drive with something called Truecrypt that I forgot about.
View ArticleAdding storage to a esxi 4.0 server
I have a customer who is out of space on their Esx I 4.0 server. I am going to add hard drives to the server to create another 2TB volume. Then I would like to move the servers from their current...
View ArticleContinued Storage Redundancy Degraded Alarms
For my development environment, I have 2 servers running ESXi 5.1. I have multiple datastores configured, 1 of which is a Synology RS812RP+. NAS device. I have some iSCSI targets set up on this...
View ArticleMPIO, ALUA and Vsphere Standard Edition
I'm having a hard time making sense of the feature differences between Vsphere standard and enterprise editions when it comes to storage. In the feature comparison it says that standard doesn't...
View ArticleRe: Using local disk storage; each guest OS it's own (physical) disk?
After reading quite a bit more about storage, I get the feeling that local storage is not that common in the way I have in mind. Is it possible to add my excising software RAID5 array as local storage...
View ArticleHow the VMKernal is allocating storage IO for each VMs
I would like to know the document to refer that how the VMKernal is allocating storage IO for each VMs. Example : There are Multiple VMs are configured in a Datastore and few VMs are using less IO...
View ArticleRe: How the VMKernal is allocating storage IO for each VMs
If your datastore has certain amount of IO's it can serve, the VM's can use them without any limit. If all the VM's have same amount of shares all of them will have access the storage and use the IOPs...
View ArticleRe: How the VMKernal is allocating storage IO for each VMs
Thanks for the information and looking for the document to refer how the IOs are allocating for each VMs in case of required High IO requirement. I am aware of SIOC which can define for DataStores and...
View ArticleLUN alignment requirements for 5.1
When creating a new LUN, ESXi host and datastore in 5.1, what are the requirements for insuring proper LUN alignment? For example, if I create a new NFS mount in NetApp and create a datastore on it in...
View ArticleRe: LUN alignment requirements for 5.1
For example, if I create a new NFS mount in NetApp and create a datastore on it in VMware, should everything be aligned by default or are there any extra steps or checks I need to do to confirm...
View ArticleRDM and DELL Shared PERC 8
Hello, We're using ESXi 5.1 successfully on a DELL VRTX system (two server blades with a shared storage).This system is using a DELL Shared PERC 8 in order to expose the shared storage to the DELL...
View ArticleRe: Unable to remove datastore
Hi Everybody, I was with the same problem It was solved by shutting down the running virtual machines , connect directly into host and then delete successfully the LUN Regards, Reinaldo
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