Lost access to volume, P2000G3, ESXi build 5050593
We have a P2000 G3 iSCSI array populated with 72 disks which we are using as a vSphere 6 replication target. The iSCSI traffic is switched through 4 dedicated 2920 switches. The storage is carved up...
View ArticleP2000G3 - Paid Support
We have a long-standing issue with a P2000G3 storage arrayand I am trying to bring the problem to a definitive resolution.The fundamental issue is that we are experiencing intermittentLUN disconnects....
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Can't add local storage after change raid config :(
Hallo , I have a server running esx 5.5 with two virtual disk (the first RAID 1 , Seccond RAID 5) local storage.I change the seccond RAID to Raid 10. Restart my server. Go to : Add the storage, Storage...
View ArticleAbout VMWare ESXi 5.1 Storage vMotion
In papaer http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-vsphere51-vmotion-performance-white-paper.pdf， mention that“Writes to a region that has already been copied...
View ArticleUsed space increasing in datastore but not in Windows
Hi all, My vms using disk as thin provisioning. today i checked the size disk in datastore and see that the disk for C drive is increasing day by day. yesterday was 50GB but today is 75Gb but i remote...
View ArticleDoubt about Write Latency observed in Datastore
Hi, I'm having the following doubt. I have a VM with a virtual disk that resides in a local Datastore backed up by 7 SAS disk in RAID5. The virtual disk was created as Thick Provission Lazy Zero. I...
View ArticleRemove dead path to iSCSI storage
Version ESX 4.0.0, 236512Storage iSCSIInitiator SoftwareA LUN that was presented to my ESX host was deleted on the san without removing it from the host and now I’m getting failover errors...
View ArticleI am out of ideas - High Latency on a LUN - on hosts with no VMs
This has been quite an eventful week with not much sleep. At the moment we are in a situation where no one knows what else we can do. Let me first explain what happened. We introduced an additional...
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Storage help ESXI 5.5
Hi maybe someone can help me with this.I have a VM datastore that has low disk space.If I browse datastore, I don't have for 127Gb of files (see sreccnshot below).I went on SAN Equalogic software and...
View ArticleExtending Physical Mode RDM.
I have a need to extend a disk that is currently presented as a physical mode RDM to a single VM on an ESXi host running 5.5 build 3116895. I have followed the procedure per the article below:...
View ArticlevSphere 6u2 and EMC UnityVSA and VVOLs -> Protocol Endpoints are not created...
Hi all, I've just installed UnityVSA from EMC (Version 4.0.1) in my lab with vSphere 6u2. I've created an old fashioned VMFS-Datastore on a LUN and an NFS-Datastore on a share. Everything is working...
View ArticleVMDK is larger than Max Size
I have read the option of changing my block size on the datastore from 1MB to 2 but, I only have 3 virtual machines here with a total storage space and I am not willing to rebuild just yet. Here is...
View ArticleCannot delete a vmdk file from datastore in the GUI or using CLI, getting an...
Hi, I cannot delete a vmdk file from my datastore. The file in question (S9_1-flat.vmdk) cannot be deleted using the vSphere Client or using CLI. I've attached the output from my SSH session:...
View ArticleiSCSI and fibre from different ESXi hosts to the same datastores
Hi, We have a centralized EMC Unity storage which exposes the datastores to our ESXi hosts via iSCSi.We are moving towards replacing all our iSCSi network to FC.In order for that to happen, we bought a...
View ArticleCan not deploy from template -- error caused by file
Hello all, I have a fairly simple setup with a 4 EXS servers connected to same NFS datastore on a NetApp storage. I have a debian template that I am deploying virtual machines from accross all...
View ArticleSCSI LUN id query
In the past there were issues observed on ESXi hosts due to the lun id mismatch. LUN id is not uniform across hosts in the cluster which causes issues with RDM vmotion / multipathing issues. If a...
View ArticleSynology Rackstation as iSCSI using ESXI 6.5
Can anyone provide a tutorial or something of sorts on how to connect ESXI 6.5 to my synology as a iSCSI datastore? I've already followed instructions for configuring the Rackstation with LUN and such,...
View Articlevsantraces folder in datastore
I'm looking to clear up some under utilized datastores, but I am now seeing a vsantraces folder. Is there something that needs to be reconfigured before deleting this datastore? I unfortunately did not...
View ArticleVOMA - LVM Major or Minor version Mismatch, Failed to Initialize LVM Metadata
Using ESXi 6.0 with the free version of vSphere. I simulated a short press of the power button via iRMC while a CentOS VM and a Windows VM were up. The host proceeded to shut down. It took a bit for...
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FC WWPN vs WWNN
Hello there.I`ve never paid much attention to these terms. It was enough for me to see on my brocade SAN switches WWNs that correspond WWNs in iLO/OA/AMM/IMM (or another IPMI) of the servers to make...
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