Configuring ISCSI multipathing with Equallogic MEM
Hi, I setup a vSphere 5.1 deployment and used Equallogic MEM for multipathing. On first sight everything looks ok, I have one distributed switch for ISCSI bound to two physical nics with LACP that...
View ArticleiSCSI Configuration
Hi, I am configuring iSCSI Software intiator on my ESXi 5 host. I am using Dell PowerEdge R620 server. How are the Broadcom iSCSI Adapters will be displyed in Storage Adapter view of vCenter Server....
View ArticleTrying to find my iSCSI host from an ESX
We're getting a new drawer of drives soon, but out Celerra guy needs to upgrade our "codes" (his word) first. This is easy enough for our Primary stack, but not so much for our DR stack (back up,...
View ArticleUpgrade 5.0 U1 to 5.1 and /boot partition size
Wondering if anyone can shed any light on the requirements for ESXi v5.1 upgrade.I understand /boot needs to be a minimum of 1GB in size,but I cannot find any easy way of determining how large /boot is...
View ArticleOnly one host in cluster added LUN
Hello,As part of a datacenter migration we are using EMC SANcopy to copy LUNS from Site A to Site B. It appears to go well and when the LUN gets to Site B it is presented to the cluster and host1 adds...
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Disk latency reporting error in vSphere 5
On some of our disk performance graphs I am seeing the highest latency metric recording almost 200 million milliseconds. That equates to over 50 hour latency spikes. The storage isn't reporting any...
View ArticleIs a license needed for VASA? Is a license needed for each copy? Is VSI...
Is a license needed for VASA? Is a license needed for each copy? Is VSI needed to have VASA? Are they mutually exclusive? Is VSI needed to have VAAI? Thanks in advance.
View ArticleHow to use ASM/ME in a vmware environment?
First off, my setup: ESX 4.0 3 host cluster connected to a Equallogic PS5xx series SAN. 1 test volume configured on the Equallogic and connected to the ESX cluster. This is a VMFS volume. 1 2008R2...
View ArticleWill vSphere support SMB3 or comparable FT storage?
I have been evaluating SMB3 and I have to say that it really eliminates the need to spend a fortune on shared storage. Gone. With automatic RDMA, I get low-latency fault-tolerant shared storage for a...
View ArticleNFS with Multipath on DV Switch 5.1?
I have 4 harware iSCSI initiatiors. And my iSCSI setup works, it is setup with multipating for High Availability. Now how do I setup NFS using the same 4 nics so I can also have multiple path to NFS...
View ArticleClone operations on NFS
Hi, I am running into a problem that I do not understand. I am playing around with NFS datastores at the moment as I plan to use them for a vCD environment. While testing, I noticed that cloning...
View ArticleLab Environment - Testing HA
Currently I have 2 Esx hosts Vsphere 4.2 with datastores residing locally.Just added a NAS appliance (the purpose is to test vMotion and HA Plan to boot up both ESX hosts from USB flash drive with...
View ArticleStorage Pool vs. Datastore Cluster
What is the difference between a "storage pool" and a "datastore cluster"?
View ArticleNFS permission issue
Hi Folks -- nfs datastore issue: We have several NFS datastores on ESX5i hosts -- when we create a new file - the permission of the files are owned by nobody -- but when we umount and remount using...
View ArticleEquallogic iSCSI and EMC Fiber channel same cloud
Nowdays I have a Cloud with 15 hosts and 2 Equallogic (iSCSI) I want to add a EMC VNX 5100 (FiberC) to my cloud. Is there any kind of limitation to use a differente version of SAN in the same cloud ? I...
View ArticleVMWare vSphere4 - esx3.5 - MD1000 - Configuration suggestions
Colleagues, Fairly new to this area and after some suggestions - have a Dell PE2900 host running esx 3.5 / VMWare (currently with six virtual machines running Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2). Attached...
View ArticleThinking about SAN chunk size
I did some Googling about SAN chunk size and VMFS 5 and found precious little information. In choosing a chunk size for VMFS 5, should the block size, or the sub-block be the primary consideration? I...
View ArticleUsing Storage DRS and VM/Template with multiple Storage Profiles...???
I have a vSphere 5.1 cluster that hosts virtual machines for various QA and Development application environments. I am trying to accomplish the following: Each VM will have at least three VMDK's - one...
View ArticleStorage moving datastore on it own 4.1
Hi just wondered if anyone has seen this happen before the setup is one brand new esxi host running version 4.1 with just 5 2008 servers running on itone server is a sql box which has 7 drives 5 are on...
View Articleibm 3512 vaai
i have vmware essential plus and ibm ds 3512 . i want to learn vaai . how to install and my license is possible for it ?
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