Difference Between Provision and Used Space
Dear Team, can some one please explain me the difference between provision and used disk space in simple words. regardsMr VMware
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Synology RS816 iSCSI - ESXi 6.5 Best Practice
Hi, I have a question regarding ESXi 6.5 iSCSI connectivity to a NAS...in this case a Synology RS816...but could be something similar. My setup(and my problem *lol*): NAS iSCSI Synology RS816: LAN1...
View ArticleDifferent sized datastores in a cluster
All, I would like to know if it is okay to keep different sized datastores in a datastore cluster. I understand it is possible technically , however I was reading Scot Lowe mastering vSphere 5.5 and it...
View ArticleFolders with only HLOG file`
After poking around on my storage i noticed that my view environment had multiple desktops with the same name but with an underscore plus a number (desktop1_1, desktop1_2). a 30 desktop pool might...
View ArticleCorrect steps to remove a datastore in vmware
Good afternoon mates, To remove a datastore in vmware, I must follow the following step: 1-Unmount all my Host Esxi from the datastore that I will remove. Since the datastore can see all my Esxi. 2-...
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Multipathing policy and one path down scenerio
Multipathing policy "Round Robin" is configured on my datastores with two active paths. My storage guy plans to perform SAN switch migration from one vendor to another and it will be one switch at a...
View ArticleNo such file or directory
Hello,I have the problem that some files with "No such file or directory"Are marked. However, these files are available. They do not delete or change....
View ArticleCisco UCS Server RAID Cache
Hi,I'm looking for a supported RAID controller on UCS server that can do caching to SSD for ESXi 5.5 / 6 / 6.5.May I know the Cisco UCS Blade Server / Cisco UCS C Server support the SSD caching on RAID...
View ArticleMigrating Fibre Channel Datastores to iSCSI.
Hi, I am planning to migrate all the datastores in my environment from fibre channel to 10Gb iSCSI. I'm wanting to do this with zero downtime and after looking online I can't find any articles on this....
View ArticleMigrating iSCSI vmks off host proxy switch
We have a dead vCenter. Utterly dead. I'm rebuilding vCenter and will add the hosts into the new vCenter. The complication comes in with the distributed virtual switch with iSCSI vmks. Each host...
View Articlebest software defined storage for 2-node vmware ess+ cluster?
Hello, besides VMWARE VSAN solution, there are several other solutions in this area. If use case dictates use of SSD drives for storing workload (not only optimization of magnetic drives), what would...
View Articlebackup of array based snapshot of vmware luns
Hello All Hope am posting in the correct location. I have a scenario I wonder if you can help with please? Basically a number of VMs with datastores on array, take VMware snapshot, take array based...
View ArticleHow to storage Migrate RDM to RDM
Hi, We are moving storage arrays for an environment where physical RDMs are used. Normal VMFS volumes are easy to migrate but what's the best practise to storage migrate RDM disks for Window servers?...
View ArticleLUN Masking
Hi All. I'm studying to VCAP, and I have a question about LUN Masking process. I'm using vjenner study guide. When I try to reclaim the LUN using the command esxcli storage core claiming unclaim, I...
View ArticleAbout Live Storage Migration in VMware ESX5.1
Storage Migration use IO Mirroring，i want to know that， whether the size of the IO data block is compared with the size of the migrated data block when the data is being migrated to improve the...
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HP VSA 11.0 (2014) - Bad storage performance
2 hosts: Dell PowerEdge 720xd running vsphere 5.5 update 110 disks per host. 10k RPM 1.2 TB 2.5inchOne HP VSA per host, 2 vCPU and 8 GB memory per VSA. All the latest updates for VSA. Almost all the...
View Articleiscsi software adapter see targets but not paths
Hello After not planed restart of array (EMC VNXe 3200) one of our hosts form cluster lose connection to datastores (two others renewed the connection). And now situation is: iscsi software adapter see...
View ArticleOne Netapp NFS datastore is showing read only
Hi All, Facing an issue whereas one NFS V3 datastore is showing readonly on ESXi 5.0 host tried remounting with IP and readding the IPs in access list of NFS volume from storage end but no luck. Tested...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Another Datastore missing
I've been struggling to recover a missing local vfms 5 datastore, the LUN is visible but refreshing and or rescanning the Datastore just does not appear.I am unable to mount in CLI either. The HP...
View Articlelocal datastore inactive in vCenter but accessible in SSH, how to fix?
Hello, One of ESXi hosts showing "not responding" in vCenter, all VMs on it are "disconnected", it appears the two local datastores are "inactive", but I can still SSH to the hosts, and both local...
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