vSphere Essentials, 2 hosts + 1 SAN (4NIC), directly connecting the SAN? (no...
Hello, I have a small question.A "low budget" isolated system of a SAN and 2 ESX hosts.The SAN is DELL MD3200i and has 4 ethernet/iscsi NICs.The hosts have each 6 NICs. I was assuming I could connect...
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Datastore Reports Negative Free Space
Hey Community! So, this is a real interesting one. We detached our iSCSI storage on this machine and was starting to clean up the local disk, when - following a reboot - we saw this as being reported....
View ArticlePrivate VLAN(PVLAN) VSphere 5 to Cisco IOS
Hello, I have configured PVLAN on VmWare side and I can ping within the Community VMs fine but I can't ping to the Gateway or go on to the Internet from any VMs on Community PVLAN or Promiscuous Ports....
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Poor Performance on 8Disk Raid 10
Hi Everyone, Firstly if I've put this in the wrong place, apologies! I currently have an ESXI 5.1 whitebox setup at home which includes a LSI 9240-8i SAS/SATA raid card with 8x2TB Seagate SATA drives...
View Articlepvscsi with esxi5.1
Hi, reading tha KB about a pvscsi and my doubt is: why don't use it as the default/raccomended controller for all the win VM?
View ArticleDell MD3200i and EqualLogic - iSCSI network config recommendations
Hi I have an existing VMWare vSphere 4.1 infrastructure with 3 hosts and an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. Each host has 8 pnics of which 2 are dedicated to iSCSI. iSCSI traffic also runs on dedicated...
View ArticleMonitoring IOPS across multiple ESX hosts in vcenter
Short background: We have inherited a rather messy setup with ~30 ESX hosts and ~150 datastores with almost 500 guest VMs. Unfortunately the naming and organization is very chaotic. We are looking into...
View ArticleBroadcom 57712 2x10GbE n'apparait pas en HBA iSCSI
Bonjour, Je viens d'installer dans un IBM x3650 m3 VMWare vSphere 5.1 (ISO d'origine VMWare, avec les dernières mises à jour et tutti quanti) équipé de deux Broadcom 57712 double port 10GbE, d'origine...
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WWNN & WWPN
I just need some clarification regarding WWNN and WWPN. From reading, and doing some searches the WWPN is assigned to the physicial port of the HBA, and the WWNN addresses the entire HBA. That being...
View ArticleThin/TBZ disks cannot be opened in multiwriter mode
Hi, I have 2 VMs that I am going to setup in an MS cluster. I have created the shared quorum disk (tried both RDM, and creating a new thick disk), but I keep getting this error when I try to power...
View ArticleArray monitoring
Hello. My apologies in advance if this is not the right place to ask my question. If so, may the moderator please appropriately move the topic. I have an HP Proliant DL-180 G6 running vSphere 5.0 (so...
View ArticleWindows 2003 setup : Cannot find any hard disk drives during installation
Hi, I've found a strange issue here.. ESXi 4.0 installed on DELL R710 with 2 processor E55xx.Then we try to install a VM, with Windows 2003. The installation cannot continue because the VM cannot...
View ArticleStorage Clusters with DRS and multi-tiered storage - how best to know when to...
I was reading a best practices document, and in the Storage Cluster section it recommended using the same tier of storage within the storage cluster, same disktype, raid type, etc. I had been...
View ArticleProblem with multi connections on iSCSI Target
Hi there, i'm running into a problem with my Synology DiskStation and vSphere 5.1. I created a LUN on my Synology and set up an iSCSI Target with multiple connections allowed!While having only one ESXi...
View ArticleOut of storage ips for nfs
I manage a hosting environment today with over 200 hosts and 20 plus filers using nfs for 90 percent of the storage connectivity. We run a /24 network and have recently run out of ips to assign to any...
View Articlei need to browse my backups in VDP
i need to browse my backups and download it on my pci using web client to access VDP
View ArticleAdded NFS datastore, during SVM's really bad throughput, then timeout
In my lab, I have two microserver hosts running esxi/vcenter 5.1. I also have an NFS server based on server 2012 that is presenting local storage to both a xenserver environment and the esxi cluster....
View ArticleCan I share a datastore between vcenter and a non-vcenter ESXI host?
Is it dangerous to grant a "free edition" licensed ESXI host access to an iSCSI LUN that is used by a VCENTER environment, if the ESXI versions match? Can the free edition store and run virtual...
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 ArticleSAN volume - Datastore - and VMDK considerations
I created a 2047GB volume on my SAN. I created a datastore in vCenter utilizing all space. I now need to add a disk to a VM using that datastore. What is the best practice in sizing VMDK on a...
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