Overcome 2TB LUN & VHD Limit For a DB?
In the process of virtualizing a Microsoft SQL server, but ran into one problem. That database(s) data on the physical server is larger than the 2TB VHD maximum (2.9TB). I know there's gotta be a way...
View ArticleIncrease space on second hard drive windows 2003 server
We are P to V a windows 2003 file server to a vmware esxi5 vm. We would like to increase the space of the D drive. Please suggest the best or most effecient way to increase the size of the D drive...
View ArticleWhat is the best option to move all virtual machines
Hello, We are planning to replace our existing SAN with a new and better one. We dont have license for V-motion, Just 2 vsphere ESXi 4.0 clusttred host with 20-30 servers. Plan is to configure new SAN...
View ArticleBest Practice for SQL
I started a discussion a few weeks ago regarding moving .vmdks from one storage vendor to another and got some great responses. What I didn't ask was if the .vmdk's contain SQL databases is there...
View ArticleActive vs Passive vs ALUA Storage
I'm becoming familiar with the terms active-active, active-passive, and ALUA. But I'm not sure entirely understand why one storage system is better than the other. It seems active-active would be...
View ArticleExchange Storage vRDM or VMDK!!
Hello, I'm in the process of storage migration from EMC AX4 to IBM DS3512. Currently in my Exchange 2007 Enterprise holds 1800 users I have configured all the Disks as Virtual RDMs with separate...
View Articledifference between soft zoning and masking/LUN masking
Hello Everyone, Just want to know the main difference between soft zoning and masking/LUN masking. with a scenario if possible. regardsVINAY
View Articlestorage virtualized demo environment
hey everyone, i am new to this virtual world, i am looking for setting up a storage virtualized demo environment with four PCs attached via a switch, any help??plz
View ArticleDell m1000e FCoE and MSCS
Hi all, We are planning on migrating our VMware environment from hosts with ethernet and FC connections to blades with CNA. We will use a Dell M1000e with M8428-k Converged 10GbE Switch Modules. I...
View ArticleESX Host VMHBA has exceeded threshold for totalWriteLatency
Hi all, There is an alert which keeps popping up on SCOM which says "ESX Host VMHBA has exceeded threshold for totalWriteLatency". I checked few websites and came to know that it means the issue is...
View ArticleHP Lefthand iscsi timeouts during VIP owner changes
Hi. We use a cluster of 6 HP Lefthand nodes for our iSCSI storage for our ESX 4.1 servers. With Lefthand, one node owns the VIP address, which is what the iscsi initiator on ESX uses to make initial...
View Articledisk value shows higher in suse linux
Experts, We have SUSE 10.2 server in ESX VMware 4i server.. we allocated 120GB for this server but when I check the size of the disk in the server (usinh fdisk command) it shows the disk size as 128.8...
View ArticleDoes LUN Order Matter?
If you attached a LUN to multiple hosts, does it matter if the LUN number is the same for all hosts? By LUN number, I mean the SCSI ID, not the UID.
View ArticleRaid array recommendation
I have 2 guests and would like to know if I'm better off having 2 raid 1 mirrors or one shared raid 10 array? when I setup physical machines I would ideally have raid 1 for os and raid 10 for data....
View ArticleDeleting a datastore
I am needing to delete a datastore so that I can reformat it from vmfs3 to vmfs5. It is my understanding that doing this from vcenter will not introduce any APD's or PDLs correct? The LUN will still be...
View ArticleIscsi datastore lost after crash
Hi at all, first of all thank you for read this post and for every suggestion that you will give me. This evenging on my Thecus NAS a disk dead and the vmware server crashed to pink screen.Once...
View ArticleProvisioned Space onThick disks?
I have thick provisioned my VM's yet most of them show provisioned space from 20% to 60% more than used space. The data store is 200GB over commited. My understanding is that provisioned space comes...
View ArticleHow to change Preferred IO Path at CLI?
We have an ESX host with couple of fiber paths and an iSCSI IO path. Currently, they are all set as 'Fixed (VMware)" for their path selection and a Fiber path is the perferred path. Via the CLI, is...
View ArticleIs Enterprise Licensing required for Dell Equallogic Multipath extension module?
hi there, As the title suggests I'm struggling to get an answer on whether a vmware Enterprise License is required for Dell Equallogic Multipath extension module? From what I've read it is to get...
View ArticleBest Practice DS3512 iSCSI Dual CTRL with vSphere ESX 5.0
Hello, My DS3512 is ready to host three ESX5.0.0,623860 servers in iSCSI Mode. What is the best practice to configure the iSCSI and ESX? Is it possible to use Round Robin Mulitpathing with this kind of...
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