Re: Query related to RDM
Thanks Andre, you said that "This may even affect the hosts and cause long boot times." ---> if we have RDM mapped on vms then vms will take time to boot ???
View ArticleHow SIOC Works
Dear Team, please let me know how SIOC works, without SIOC if we set shares on VMs then how VMs get the resource in contention.... SIOC based on total VMs shares = Total Host Share or it's purely based...
View ArticleRe: Query related to RDM
No, you shouldn't see any issues with the VMs. RDMs may however affect the ESXi hosts (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1016106). André
View ArticleVMFS Extents
Dear Team, I have one datastore with 5 extents, just want to know how esx server will write the data for eg first it will write on first exten until its fulled then move it to second extent , once...
View ArticleRe: VMFS Extents
Check out VMFS Extents – Are they bad, or simply misunderstood? | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs for some great info on this.
View ArticleRe: How SIOC Works
This will help you understand Storage IO Control, the movie - Yellow Bricks
View ArticleSIOC depends on Queue dept or Shares
Dear Team, Please let me know, how SIOC provide QoS, it depends on HBA queue depth or if one ESX have more shares compared to other ESX host??? regardsM VMware
View ArticleRe: Change SE-Sparse disk size
As it seems from the scarce documentation available on the subject, Flex-SE disks are not available to be used as regular VM virtual disks, despite the fact that one can create them and even snapshot...
View ArticleRefresh Datastores vs Rescan HBA
I always get a bit confused on this behavior sometimes. So If I add a new Lun to an esx host, the device will show up on all the HBA adapters on all other esx hosts in the Cluster(s) that are zoned to...
View ArticleRe: Refresh Datastores vs Rescan HBA
This should answer all your questions.vSphere Documentation Center
View ArticleRe: Refresh Datastores vs Rescan HBA
Thankyou. Is it ok just to rescan one HBA on the host, or all of them?
View ArticleRe: Migrating from VMFS3 to VMFS5, converting thin to thick disks
I wanted to follow up to my previous post, that we ended up contacting VMware support and the problem was confirmed it is an issue with the version of vCenter we are running, which is 5.0.0 build...
View ArticleInfrastructure setup
Dear Team, I need ur help if i purchase a SAN storage / network switch (setting up a new infrastructure) then what need to be take into an account , how to take a decision which storage / network...
View ArticleRe: Infrastructure setup
Hey, it all depends on what you want to do with it. Do you want Fibre Channel or iSCSI? What bandwidth?How many hosts do you want to connect?How much Storage do you need?How much IOPS do you need?How...
View ArticleAdding datastore errors & disconnects
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008886Hello All; I'm a newbie to the VM community and have come across my 1st problem with vCenter...
View ArticleRe: Infrastructure setup
Many thanks Kim, as we are planning to run tomcat, apache, exchange server, sql (mostly all tier1 application). how to confirm IOPs for these applications.
View ArticleStorage disk
Dear Team, want to know the different type of disk (sata, ssd etc) , speed and per sec IOPs details. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleRe: Storage disk
Are you looking at a particular vendor? there are loads of vendor out there who have different kinds of disks. What is your requirement?
View ArticleRe: Storage disk
I think for estimations you can use table from Wikipedia IOPS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
View ArticleNFS share getting a (1) appended when adding to a new host in existing...
I am sure its a simple answer ,but I have been beating my head on the wall trying to find a fix. The scenario is this : 1. Vcenter has several host in various clusters. All built at the same time with...
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