SV Motion of VM's having snap shot ??
Hi , Can we do the SV motion of the VM which has snap shot ??? as i know we cannot till 4.1 . some blogs says its possible in 5.0 , want to know did anyone tried this?? Is SV motion possible if VM...
View ArticleWhere are the AoE initiators for VMware
I am very familiar with Coraid and their HBA offerings both 1G and 10G, but I don't have the budget for new equipment from an unknown at this time, but I am very interested in AoE and am currently...
View ArticleInstalling storage appliance on existing DEV platform
hi - i just want to check something re the deployment of the vmware storage appliance. I have a DEV platfrom already that has SAN LUNs presented to it. I qwould like to use the same esx servers to...
View ArticleUse Qnap NAS for VM production storage?
Hi - Has anyone any experience using a Qnap NAS (like TS-EC1679U-RP ) as NFS storage for VMs in production? I thought of use SEAGATE Constellation ES 7200 3TB HDD 7200rpm SATA serial ATA 6Gb/s 64MB...
View ArticleHow LUN is presented to an ESX Host
Dear Team, How to confirm weather LUN is present to an ESX host?? We have requested our SAN team to map one 900GB LUN to one of the esx host, these people have done the needful from their end (i.e....
View ArticlePerformance Monitoring for EMC and VMware
What tools are available for an EMC / VMware environment that allow me to see and troubleshoot peformance problems giving me visibility to both storage and virtualization layers in one pane of glass?...
View ArticleConnecting RDMs to multiple VMs for a cluster
Hi all, Quick summary of my setup: 1 ESX 4.0 u2 serverConnected as a standalone ESX to a vCenter 5 u1b Server5 x 2TB LUNs presented to the ESXAll 5 LUNs added as physical mode RDMs to virtual primary...
View ArticleESXi Datastore placed in which RAID type?
Hi All,I have installed VMware ESXi 4.0.0 in HP DL 380 G6 Server. We have 20 spoke sites and all sites have ESXi on HP Servers. i don't know ESXi's datastore placed in which RAID group. How can i...
View ArticleUnusual Datastore Usage - What's causing it?
Hi Everyone, We currently have a vcenter estate whereby someone has thin provisioned all VM's (about 30) and overcommitment is possible on one of the LUN's. I have set up an alarm to monitor the usage...
View ArticleCannot mount NFS datastore
All,Just passed my VCP 5.0!! Just waiting to sit the course and then aiming to take VCAP5-DCA last week of December. On the other hand, I have an issue after upgrading one of my ESX4.1 hosts to...
View ArticleDoubt regarding Snapshot
Hi, I have a version 8 VM with Thick Eager Zeroed provisioning with 70gb capacity. When i took a snapshot of this VM it has created a separate vmdk file with 70gb. So totally it is occupying 140+ gb in...
View ArticleSan via DGS-1500-20 switch
Hi. I have a question about connecting a SAN to a host. The SAN i am talking about has 2 controllers and FC cards. The hosts also have FC cards. The switch is a Dlink DGS-1500-20 with 16 TCP ports and...
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VASA: NetApp filer panic
Just a quick heads up for those of you looking to put up the NetApp VASA provider. Don't. There is a bug that we apparently hit while I was configuring the VASA provider on Friday: BURT...
View ArticleCRC Error on the Storage
Hello All, Below are few details before I post my question, Storage Vendor: 3PARStorage Box: F400Storage Firmware: 3.1.1 ESX connected: vSphere 5.1 Recently the Storage firmware was upgraded to 3.1.1...
View ArticleLUN inacessible.
Dear Team, last week we have datacenter shutdown activity, This monday we have pweredon all ESX, Storage, Netwok etc.... everything is working fine but on one of the clustered esx host (2esx is a...
View ArticleDatastore usage discrepancies
Good morning, all! I'm doing a survey of my LInux virtual machines and their storage preparatory to further backup and replicationimplementation. I found this situation to be puzzling, and want to be...
View ArticleFinding Netapp filer details from datastore
Hi All, I'm trying to figure out from which netapp filer the datastore is getting storage. I can find the volume name and UUID of netapp filer but those aren't helping me get the netapp filer name....
View ArticleMigrating a Raw Fibre Channel Lun to iSCSI
I have a couple servers that we have mapped Raw LUN's to the actual server. Probably now farther along something we shouldn't of done. We now want to take that Data and Migrate it to iSCSI from Fibre...
View ArticleDell MD3200/MD1200 6Gb/sec Shared SAS performance tests
We recently acquired a Dell MD3200 and MD1200 6Gb/sec shared SAS storage system and I have spent a couple of days setting up some tests to see how it compares to our old iSCSI EMC Clariion. Wasn't...
View ArticleInflate on Powered On Virtual Machine
Hi,why it is not possible to inflate disk on powered on VM? Potentially snapshot could help to do this online. Like snapshot created first and then local storage vmotion to same datastore with inflate...
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