Virtual machine provisioning 1Tb for a 512Gb disk/Machine virtuel avec un...
I have make a vm, vpshere esxi, with a 512Gb virtual disk, but the vm is provisionning about a TB of space stockage.Vmdk size is about 1Tb.Can some one help me please. J'ai fait une machine virtuelle...
View ArticlevSphere 6.5 and external storage array with dedupe
Hello, I have all-flash array with deduplication and compression enabled connected via 8Gb FC to two ESXi 6.5 hosts. I want to know if there is any way of presenting used space on array after dedupe...
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VMware Disk Provisioning with SSD Flash Storage
I'm building a new VM that will be used as a SQL 2019 Standard server running Windows Server 2016 Standard. Very small environment with only 5 or fewer users connecting to the SQL server for use with...
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What is best practice for large disks?
Hi, We are looking to setup a video archival volume and are purchasing a new SAN for purpose (iSCSI). I understand the maximum virtual disk size is 62TB but the usable capacity on the SAN will be about...
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VMWare Expanded Extent over 2 disks - Invalid argument on some files
Hi everyoneI have an ESX 6.7 which consists of a datastore named Vira nad this datastore was built over a 1TB Samsung SSD. after a while we needed to expand it and did it using another 1TB and expanded...
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Deleted Partition Table
Hello, I have done multiple searches and have not come across the situation I have put myself in, so I will ask.I have esxi 6.5 connected to a NAS unit with a iSCSI connector.While re-configuring my...
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NFS Configuration questions
We are migrating to new NetApp MetroCluster storage. All storage is NFS. In the past our storage targets only had one IP address to connect to so there was a question about what address to connect...
View ArticleDisk array failure and recovery leave Spanned datastore degraded and unusable.
I have a spanned datastore volume that is comprised of 4 extents and I suffered a disk array failure that forced me to re-import the disk volume on a very old PERC 5/I disk controller. I was able to...
View ArticleIntel Optane 905P VS Samsung 983 ZET best performance for running many...
I am looking to purchase two premium SSD's that will give the best performance for running many Virtual Machines simultaneously on vSphere. The two that I am looking at are the Intel Optane 905P and...
View ArticlePerformance boost with Iscsi
276/5000 Gentlemen, I have 2 servers with 8 virtual machines each, all machines are stored in IBM DS3512 storage, communicating via ISCSI, I have 2 dedicated cards only for storage communication...
View ArticleError Removing Datastore
I have two clusters (Servers adn VDI) that share the same storage array. I removed everything from the data-store and tried to remove the data-store form the system. Out of 7 hosts 5 of them removed...
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where to buy a speedometer?
Greetings everyone,Just arrived here and found this forum quite good, so I wanna know that from where I can buy sphygmomanometer?Actually I need it for my home, I saw some good digital and manual on...
View ArticleHelp Removing Datastore
I have a datastore that i am trying to remove and it tells me there is a Virtual Machine that is referencing this datastore. However, when i look at the DS there are NO files listed. Any help is...
View ArticleISCSI APD timeout issue in ESXi 6.7.0
Issue APD timeout issue in ESXi 6.7.0 Our setup:- This is pre-prod setup with 4 ESXi servers backed by Windows ISCSI storage.ISCSi data store size is 10 TB( presented from Windows physical ISCSI...
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Improving Stun Times
VMware 6.0Compellent SC5020 SAN connected with 10GBVM Size 1.6TBVM Workload: SQL12 disks split among 3 paravirtual controllersOS disk using LSI Logic SAS Does anyone know if there is anything else we...
View ArticleCannot reclaim space on VMFS store
Hey, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I recently took over an ESXi instance, and have run into space issues on the box. Physical Server: HP Proliant DL380p Gen 8OS: ESXi 6.5 U2 Sept...
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ESXi 6.5 storage share presentation and vVols
Hi allI would like to ask you for some official documentation regarding Vmware Best Practices on mounting and presenting the volume shares and so vVols from a NetApp storage to a ESXi 6.5 solution...
View ArticleVMFS Problem
Hi, i have a vSphere 6.5, with 1 VM, after a crash in vm, i reboot the machine and after that my datastore dont show any more. Someone can help to restore vmfs partition ? There is the logs: vmkernel:...
View ArticleSD clone
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from vmware 5 to vmware 6.7. My servers have a vmware boot on sd card and I think that is a good idea backing it or clone it before the upgrade. I found this article on...
View ArticleRAID card for Mac Pro 5.1 internal hard drives.
I want to install ESXi on a Mac Pro 5.1 using the internal drives (DAS). This works just fine, but when it comes to creating a RAID on the internal drives there are some issues. I need help to find a...
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