esxtop and VMWare performance showing IOPs higher than storage rating?
I guess I'm not the only one, we've had some interesting problems over the last few weeks so now I'm actually learning about the storage, IOPs etc! The monitoring of our P2000 is fairly poor, I can't...
View ArticleHP MSA 2040 multipathing
Hello everyone, Recently we have purchased HP MSA 2040 FC SAN. SAN came with dual controllers. each controller has 4 ports. we have configured it with 2 LUNs. currently we connected all controller...
View ArticleCreating a New Datastore Cluster
Hello, Can I move a datastore into a Datastore Cluster while its still hosting VMs? I have not been able to find information on this. Everything I find on Datastore Clusters talks about new...
View ArticleVAAI comes under Storage API or vsphere API
Dear Team, Quickly wants to check if I want use VAAI so in VMware license what I required vSphere API or Storage API so that I can use VAAI. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Update 1 and PowerPath VE 5.9.1
Hi VMware community, I googled for this for an hour and didn't find a firm answer- is PowerPath VE 5.9.1 support with ESXi 5.5 Update 1? I assume that it is, but I just want to find it stated somewhere...
View ArticleRound robin does not work
Hello, The scenario:I have two freshly installed ESXI 5.5 machines, both are connected with dual mini-scsi cables (one per controller) each host from my HP G3 SAS MSA Storage, which is also freshly...
View ArticleDatastore spanning multiple LUNs
Hello - I'm doing some research for a potential proof of concept we're looking into. However before we purchase storage for the PoC, I want to make sure I fully understand the underlying technology....
View ArticleFormatting fails when volume is on a a NAS
Here is the situation:vSphere 5.1Synology NAS on the network.Client VM is Windows 2012 x64I created a 100GB VHD for the VM on the NAS:Thick Provision Lazy ZeroedIndependent, PersistentI then went into...
View ArticleDeleted space reclamation on thin provisioned VMFS datastores
Hi There, We are managing four VMware ESXi 5.0 hosts and VSC 4.2 installed in our vCenter Server. 2TB Thin LUN provisioned from NetApp FAS3240 controller. We used around 1.5TB of data earlier and now...
View ArticleNumber of files can stored on VMFS5 datastore
Dear team, request u to let me know the number of files can be stored at VMFS 5 regardsMr VMware
View ArticleTwo vCenters, Same Storage
I'll be migrating my hosts/vms residing in one specific geographic location into a different vcenter soon. Some of the same storage arrays will continue to be used. Is there any issue with having hosts...
View ArticlePoor performance of storage vmotion to one datastore only
Hi Community First, let me give you a brief overview of our small infrastructure: 1 x HP Enclosure C70006 x HP BL460 G7/Gen8 blades with ESXi 5.1 1 x HP BL 460 G7 with Windows 2008 R22 x HP B-Series...
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Failed to export Virtual Machine. Help please is urgent!
Hello guys! I need your help.I tried to export a virtual machine in .ova file but I got this error. So the exportation didn´t start and it only showed in the task bar "In progress" without an effect....
View Article"Cannot connect to Storage service" Using web client and vCenter server...
This was working previously. Rebooted both the Host and Vcenter server appliance. Still get an error. Please help! Thank youDan
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Ubuntu 12.04Lts remounted read only in SAN environment
Hi, I've got a Ubuntu 12.04 VM on ESXi 5.1 that had its filesystem remounted as read-only. Unfortunately the syslog was on the partition and didn't log anything. I have read that this can be caused in...
View ArticleNew to 5.x and a storage question
I have two 4.x ESXi servers. I have not bought/built a server in several years and am pricing-out a new Dell R720xd. My understanding is I can install the VMware ESXi 5.1 OS boot to the two 146GB...
View Articlesome extents missing
Hi, i'm trying to recover some data from a damaged datastore. i had a datastore that was made out of 4 extents. the extents were iSCSI luns from dell storage.i had some issues with the storage and Dell...
View ArticleNFS maxfilesize
Hi, I would like to know "how to set maxfilesize property for NFS datastores?" Where I could get option/tab in VI/web client? -VIkas
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Disable iSCSI Port Binding
I want to disable iSCSI Port Binding. Can I disable while VMs are active in the production environment, or do they need to be shut down? Have iSCSI Port Binding enabled on 4 NICs:
View ArticleSATP/PSP Configurations
I noticed that some of my LUNs have different SATP/PSP configurations. For example, one will have SATP_CX with MRU. Another will have SATP_ALUA_CX with FIXED_AP. I am assuming this is completely...
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