NFS Recommendations ?
We are setting up a new vSphere 5.1 system with Essentials Plus.Don’t want to go the SAN route. Any recommendations on decent NFS/NAS system?thanks
View ArticleSVMotion Failing
I am trying to svmotion just one disk and am getting "A general system error occurred: Failed to start disk migrations." It's not for all VM's though. Any thoughts on why this would be?
View ArticleIs SQLIO accurate when run inside a VM?
I'm wondering if there are issues with timing accuracy since there's no direct access to the system's hardware timer. Any thoughts?
View ArticleNoisy neighbor with RDMs
We've got SQL server VM which puts a huge load on storage: 1,5k average commands per second, with 3,5k spikes (as reported by vCenter). It negatively impacts all datastores latency as a result. We are...
View ArticleESXi 5.x "I/O Error Occurred"
Hardware: Supermicro X8SIL-F-O with Xeon X3450 CPUIBM ServeRAID M1015 flashed to LSI 9211 IT ModeOnboard Dual Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet ControllersHP NC360T 2 Port 1GbE NICIntel X520-DA2 2 Port...
View ArticleNew Storage
Hi, we are changing our storage to a new NetApp. We are now creating our storage design and i wan´t to know if someone could share his experience with the different capabilities to configure the...
View ArticleESXi on Macbook Pro 5,4 HDD
I have an old Macbook Pro 5,4 that I'd like to install ESXi 5.1 on. The installation works great from a USB and I can get through it, except it does not recognize my Macbook's internal HDD. This is a...
View ArticleFully connecting directly attached datastores in an ESXi cluster?
I have deployed two identical ESXi 5.1 hosts (Dell PowerEdge r720xd servers) each possessing 5.46 TB of direct-attached storage. They are both currently registered to our vCenter 5.1 Server and...
View Articlefalse reporting in edit VM after Inflate disk
Hi, I am using ESXi 5.0 623860. Somehow, I have managed to see some strange situation regarding inflating disk. When I am inflating a thin provisioning disk, the disk grows till the provisioned size....
View ArticleUsing VMWare standard license with EqualLogic
I'm getting mixed answers on weather it is possible to use Dell Multipathing Extension (MEM) with ESX standard license.I'm also confused about terms like PSP, PSA, NMP, and Storage API. I'm not sure...
View ArticleMigrations from DAS to FC SAN
Hi I have ESXI host on 5.0 and it users Local HDD and a DAS for user profile. I would like to migrate this to the new FC SAN. I have new server, and I have configured EVC. What I am woundering is that...
View ArticleShare Virtual or Physical RDMs between VM,s for Orcale RAC
Hi Techies, I am implementing Oracle RAC on VMware Environment, i am finding difficulty to share RDM between 2 VMs, when try to map with second vm i am getting below error. incompatible device backing...
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vMotioning Thin disks from Oracle NAS (NFS) to NetApp NAS (NFS) results in...
Hey everyone, I've got an issue that I can't quite get an answer to...from VMware or NetApp...at least as of yet anyways. I've got an Oracle 7420 which has caused us some heartache with VMware living...
View ArticlevSphere Lost Connection when creating storage... Please Help.
Hello guys, We got a new Dell PowerEdge T320. Started everything with no problem until I get into to creating the Storage. When I try to make a storage, it keeps on loosing connection. Has anyone had...
View ArticleeSATA local Storage
I need to add a WD 1TB eSATA drive to an ESXi 5.1 R720 host. Can't see any PCIe cards in the compatibility matrix (unless I'm doing it wrong) and have trawled through countless forum posts. Tried...
View ArticleNFS (inactive) (unavailable) after reboot
I'm doing an internship on VMware. We have 2 ESXi hosts, that both have mounted NFS storage on a RHEL 6.4 NFS server.This NFS server's firewall is on and blocks everything except NFS. When my hosts are...
View ArticleSAN: Single point of failure?
Hi,I have a concern that I can't seem to find an easy answer to through all the marketing gloss! My concern is how to protect against a failure of shared storage but I need to explain how we currently...
View ArticleNew-Hardisk and RDM issues
While trying to add a new raw disk to a VM, it is throwing the error "A general system error occurred: Error creating disk Function not implemented". But the same is happening fine when I tried to do...
View ArticleSVMotion Logs
Hi All, I have SVMotion one datastore to another datastore complete sucessfullyBut in task & event logs its not mention datastore name how to find this issue and which logs we need to verfied for...
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SAN / RAID / vCenter issue
Interesting day today. We have a virtualised 5.1 environment mixed with Solaris 10 and Sunray thin clients. We have load balanced terminal servers and the vm running the load balancing software was non...
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