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Issue with shrinking drive
I am on vmware 6.7 and Windows 2012 R2. Made mistake in my lab environment trying to shrink Drive C: from 80GB to 78GB. Instead of shrinking the 80GB drive I extended the wrong drive VIPDEV1 which was...
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Best Practice: Multiple partitions on a single vmdk or one partition per vmdk
Hello everyone-I would like to get you your opinions on the best practice for the File Server vmdk setup.C drive partition would allocated for the OS, while E, F ... partitions for Data storage. setup...
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observed increase in pool utilization Symmetrix Array
Hi Team, Need your help here to fix the increase in pool Utilization. Usually we use to run the un-map commands. From past 1 month, we are temporarily running unmap command to fix the or bring down the...
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Unable to unmount a datastore
I need to remove|delete a datastore ("dsarchiv") from the ESXi 6.5, but I keep getting errors saying: (vCenter)The "Unmount VMFS volume" operation failed for the entity with the following error...
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NFS Storage
Hello Experts, Could you please help me to find out if there will be any impact of installing the VAAI NFS plugin onto the ESXI hosts. Is there any best practices to be followed in case I need to do...
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Not detecting more than 3 hosts in my shared datastore.
Hi, I have assigned a LUN of 2TB shared across 4 hosts, i have added all four through ISCSI.Now when i create a datastore in vcenter, i can only see 3 hosts are getting detected always.IS there any...
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vsantraces 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...
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SAN PATH : "The path is marked as 'busy' by the VMkernel"
root@ESX2 ~]# esxcfg-mpath -s off -P vmhba2:C0:T0:L0Unable to set path state. Error was: Unable to change path state, the path is marked as 'busy' by the VMkernel. Heres the situation: 600gb...
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help with " Physical LUN and datastore mapping File "
All HELP NEEDED PLEASE ? I have a windows VM which needs to be connected to a load of mapped RAW luns. These LUNs (symmetrix storage btw) have all been presented via their esx host and have been...
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Can anyone please suggest on how to map vmdk files to respective LUN's in Vcenter 6.5 ?
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Storage Disconnection with message "with reason code 0001"
Hello Team,Can anyone please shed some light on this message, that we see just before disconnection of iscsi storage from esxi host. This logs are vobd.log2015-08-12T15:45:07.712Z: [iscsiCorrelator]...
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Native Multipathing Plugin question and Storage Mode Active /Active ,...
Hi everyone.Let say we have a NET APP Storage array with two Storage processors. These processors are configured as active active. Assume we have multiple paths between ESXI and this storage...
View ArticleVCA HA why do we use it over simpler HA/FT for VCA?
Hi everyone,VCA HA requires Witness VM, Cloned passive VM to be created to provide VCA redundancy. But we can provide the same functionality using simple HA for VM hosting VCA. For example, we can...
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NFS storage won't connect over custom TCP/IP stack
I’m trying to build out a new vSphere 6 environment (DR site). All is going well except NFS storage. I have created a separate TCP/IP stack for NFS and associated the appropriate vmk port to it. I can...
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BEst PRactice to create one large LUn or small LUN
Dear Team, Storage team created one raid group size of 4TB, Now if I want to map this lun on one of the ESXi host so what should I do map two LUN size of 2TB and create two datastoreormap one LUN size...
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virtual machine port ID and port-groups
Hi everybody,Let say we have a VM which is connected to vSW1 on ESXI, using port-groups VM-1, VM-2 Does vSW still assign single Virtual machine port ID to VM or it will assign two virtual machine...
View ArticleCan we connect two Standard VSW within a same ESXi host?
Hi everyone,Is it possible to connect two standard VSW together within same ESXi Host? Thanks and have a good weekend!!
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How to Achive One device One HBA to one Path
Hi All, There is scenario where storage Admin messed up the configuration. They have presented 1500-1600 path which is more then our limit 1024. Now I can see few devices from 4,3,2,1 HBA's instead of...
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0x800703fa Error Code from Virtual Machine
DearsHiWe faced below error in client device view agent log files, user use Zero client and was disconnected from virtual machine randomly , this error code is retailed to user disconnection?how can I...
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