Re: ESXI 5.5 after new installing, no Datastore accessible
Seems like the driver for your RAID controller was removed with 5.5, so while the upgrade retained the 5.1 driver, a fresh install did not come with it and thus your host doesn't see the volumes or...
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Adaptec RAID 71605 controller is not supported on ESXi 5.5 according to the compatibility list. May be that's why its behaving oddly. VMware Compatibility Guide: I/O Device Search
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OK now its working but nice to see that a raidcontroller litte bit over a year released is not supported anymore
View ArticleNFS APD when deploying unitrends Backup
Hi, I'm using the free edition of Vsphere Hypervisor (5.5) and in the process of evaluating Unitrends Backup. I've created a NFS share on my Dell powervault 745N nas (Windows server 2003) with the...
View ArticleThis is ciritical issue that we have second time relate to the same problem,...
Hi,,, I amd suffering from VMware error.Storage was disconnected step by step from Hypervisor, so our service was unavailable.To continue our service, we reseat the switch machine. I suppose that our...
View ArticleNFS share inactive after reboot
Hi All, I've been having some issues with adding an NFS windows share to my hosts. I originally had no problem and was able to successfully add it to all my ESXi hosts.We had a power outage at the...
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Storage vMotion of one VM triggers "Execute Storage vMotion for Storage DRS"...
Hi Community, I started to Storage vMotion one single VM that was about 1TB provisioned but only using abour 64GB. The destination is a Datastore Cluster. SDRS Automation is set to "No Automation...
View ArticleMultiple SCSI bus H:0x2 entries across multiple hosts
Hello all... H:0x2BUS stayed busy through time out periodH:0x8The SCSI bus (or this device) has been reset. Any SCSI device on a SCSI bus is capable of instigating a reset.D:0x2CHECK...
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Local datastore disappeared from datastore window (Need urgent support)
Dear Team, I m facing a very strange issue, suddenyly one of ESX local datastore disappeared folowoing are the complete details which we have faced/noticed. **One of the local datastore disappeared...
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Assuming you are using ESX 4.1 (that's what I found on your other posts), run fdisk -lu from the command line (putty) to see whether the VMFS datastore's partition type is still "FB" (VMFS). If this is...
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Re: Local datastore disappeared from datastore window (Need urgent support)
Dear Andre, Thanks for reply.please find the output
View ArticleRe: Local datastore disappeared from datastore window (Need urgent support)
According the output the partitions are ok. What happened prior to the issue? Did you try to rename a datastore? Maybe two of the datastores have the same label for whatever reason. You may try to...
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Hi Mike, The basis of this behavior is that Storage DRS only considers the 1TB provisioned space instead of the 64GB. By nature Storage DRS is very conservative, as it cannot determine the growth rate...
View ArticleRe: Storage i/o Control - Error
Hi Daniel, Did you check the license on your hosts? Are the correct licenses applied?Although SIOC require an enterprise plus license, sometimes the UI makes a mistake and makes the option visible....
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Dear Andre, getting following errors in vmkernel Dec 14 17:12:42 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:56:31.974 cpu1:4097)ScsiDeviceIO: 747: Command 0x28 to device "mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0...
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With the I/O error messages, I'd suggest you open a support case with VMware. Maybe there's something corrupted in the file system which could become even more serious if you wait too long!? André
View ArticleRe: Local datastore disappeared from datastore window (Need urgent support)
We have copied data from inacessible datastore and all VMs are running fine on another datastore. if the issue is related to filesystem then will it be okay if we create new vmfs datastore on...
View ArticleRe: Local datastore disappeared from datastore window (Need urgent support)
I think deleting and re-creating the VMFS partition/datastore should work if it is just a logical issue. However, you should keep an eye on this and/or just run some test VMs on this datastore for some...
View ArticleSAN – RAID set configuration
Hi I’m a newbie to vSphere 5 & am in the process of setting up a test lab. I will be using 2 x ESXi5 (HP 380 G5’s) hosts & a iSCSI SAN (380 G5). I am unsure of the best configuration for the...
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I'd create a single RAID5 set with all 6 disks (or 5 disks + hot spare) and use the ACU (Array Configuration Utility) to create at least two logical volumes on this RAID set. Although it's not required...
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