SAS Tape drive (HP Ultrium 920 SAS) on a HP SC44ge (LSI 1044 based) controller
Hello,I have problem on backup I have backup server windows server 2008 R2 standard on Vmware 4.1 and I use Backup exec 2010 R2 and Use HP autoloader (1x8 G2 AUTOLOADER) connected via SAS cable HP...
View ArticleVOMA reports inconsistencies - what next ?
What is the recommended procedure after VMFS problems ? Assume you see a VMFS-volume with harmless I/O errors, with serious AIOMgr type 3 I/O errors or with VOMA reporting inconsistencies.Is that...
View ArticleEMC Clarrion AX4 Array (ISCSI Multipathing Subnets)
Just wanted to get quick clarification from folks with setting up an EMC Clarrion array. The array has two storage processors, each processor has two 1GB interfaces. Should the config look like: SPA1...
View ArticleReason for un-mountability: the original volume has some extents online
I've raised a support request, but thought I'd post this here to see if anyone else has seen the same issue on ESXi 5.1,914609. We are implementing an HP Cloud Matrix system with ESXi 5.1 as one of the...
View ArticleCould not find 2 NICs on the system
I think this is the solution to my issue but could someone word this so I can understand the resolution please?...
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Broadcom BCM5709 with Jumbo Frames as iSCSI adapter
Hello, I have searched and browsed a lot on this topic, but I do not understand one thing with Broadcom BCM5709 with Jumbo Frames as iSCSI adapter - is it not supported because it is hardware issue,...
View ArticleLimiting IO per VM
What is the best way to limit the IO a VM can generate to a shared nfs datastore? We have been setting limits on the number of IOPs per vmdk at the vSphere layer (sched.scsiX:X.throughputCap in the...
View ArticleUsing Profile Driven Storage with EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST)
With an older storage array, I create LUNs based on the kinds of disks that back the LUNs. I could make my SAS backed LUNs gold, my sata backed LUNs to be bronze, etc. and then use Profile Driven...
View ArticleiSCSI timeouts with VMWare 5.0 and ONTap simulator 8
Hi all, I'm trying to get ESXi 5 talking to an iSCSI Netapp lun (well, netapp simulator) and I've got everything talking but when I go to format the LUN I get a timeout: 2013-02-19T20:32:35.918Z...
View ArticleHow to define datastore cluster boundaries in SDRS implemenations
In SDRS, a datastore cluster can encompass more than one HA cluster. Is it best to have only one datastore cluster per HA cluster? If there were reasons for having a datastore cluster encompass more...
View ArticlevSphere 5 storage certification error - Couldn't get the product type
I've completed my test environment setup, and I'm attempting to run the vSphere 5 storage certification test suite. The "Configuration" test passes, but I'm encountering the following error during the...
View ArticleConfigure multiple initiator zoning to single initiator zoning
I have been implement a FC vmware infrastructure and it runs successfully. I'm currently using multiple initiator zoning where I group all my HBA initiator and storage controller into one huge zone. I...
View ArticleiSCSI Port Binding Question
Hi, Could do with a little help getting my head round the following: I had a problem with a newly configured ESXi 5.1 host, at reboot it hung on vmw_satp_lsi successfully loaded. I linked this to...
View ArticleStorage Adapter Performance
how will chek/analyze performance of Storage adapter in esx?
View ArticleVMs Unknown state. Storage not visible
Hello everyone, I have a cluster with 4 hosts with ESXI 5.0. They are connected with one storage using fiber channel and the VMs are now in a Unknown state.Before this problem, everything was working...
View Articlevmdk thin partition reduce size
Dear community, I have faced an issue with my vmdk thin partion. By wrong configuration I had made the vmdk space bigger than the hard disk space. Is it possible to decrease the size of the vmdk? Is...
View ArticleLarge Cyrus IMAP Server --- VMDK/RDM/iSCSI
Hi, I'm going to virtualize our mail server which is and will be a Linux VM with cyrus IMAP and postfix. Actually the mailstore is about 1.6TB with a 2GB day growth. The Virtual Machine will have a 1TB...
View ArticleAdding Additional iSCSI Volumes?
I have a esx 4.0 2 host cluster connected to an equallogic SAN. Currently the ESX's hosts are connected to 1 volume on the equallogic and there 10-15 VM's running on them using the equallogic volume....
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vSphere 5.1/EMC VNXe 3150 Partial/No Redundancy
Having completed the setup/configuration of our new cluster along with our new EMC VNXe 3150 Array, I'm puzzeled as to why I'm seeing Partial/NoRedudancy after moving some VM's over to new host:...
View ArticleHow do I contact VMware regarding a documentation issue?
Hi, I'm in the process of setting up an HP EVA, and had been using the following guide, easily found on Google:...
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