FC Storage Volumes available locally on host but not when logged onto vCenter
We have recently upgraded from vSphere 5.1 to .5.5 U2 at our prod site. Last week we had to perform a live DR simulation at a cold site where the following issues surfaced. All the blades were built...
View ArticleTrying to work out the best way to start!
Hi all; I am VERY new to Vmware......I have just taken delivery of a Dell server to run vmware on for a customer. Given the seemingly heinous cost of Dell storage, I am guessing that the best way is to...
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what is "Number of loop resyncs" in HBA status from ESXi host logs
Hello Team, From ESXi host logs for HBA adapter logsI see this , what does this mean and what should be good number , basically our user facing some performance issue. "Number of loop resyncs = 49" Can...
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production vm storage?
what you guys use for production vm storage? i mean explicitly not labs / homes but something you roll in the office you don't own yourself would you put into production some free solution with...
View ArticleDatastores shared across multiple clusters
Good day Currently we have multiple v5.5 clusters setup, each with its own sets of datastores that it used.There was a request to make all datastores visible to all clusters:-example:-VC1 - Cluster...
View ArticleWindows 2012 SAN - Supported?
Hey Everyone, Is the Windows SAN supported on VMWare? Would anyone use this for their environment? Any feedback would be appreciated, thank you. Matthew
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Data stores per LUN
Hi,Im just reconfiguring our SAN, and have setup one large array as a single LUN to ESXi 4.1.I was under the impression that i could have multiple datastores on one LUN, with each host accessing a...
View ArticlevSphere 6.0 & SPBM Integration - Design Question
What is new for Storage DRS in vSphere 6.0?"Up next the integration with Storage Policy Based Management. In the past when you had different tiers of datastores as part of the same Datastore Cluster...
View ArticleGrowing VMFS datastore with running VM
Hey, gents.Have a quick question. We have improperly provisioned VMFS datastore on production VM, basically, SAN LUN size is 1.99TB and virtual disk was created as thin provisioned and 2TB.vSphere...
View ArticleStorage Performance Analysis
Dears, Does anyone have any idea about storage performance analysis?
View ArticlePro and cons for 16TB LUN's
I have a 3PAR 7000 system with 64 TB NL drives and 8.7 TB FC drives. I was thinking about carving out 4 x 16 TB, one for each Host and then make 2 x 4TB of the FC drives. I have been trying to find...
View ArticleMixing Hyper-V and VMware on storage array
Hi,I hate to admit but soon there will be Hyper-V running in our datacenter along with VMware :-) . We're going through the design sessions right now and one point that came to table was the discussion...
View ArticleVMFS resiliance - moving forward
Hey all, I'm interested in some discussion around file system resilience. I appreciate, that in reality, most VMFS failures we hear about involve either hardware of user error, however, those errors...
View ArticleNoob question about storage HA
Hi all, i need some help to plan the storage for a vsphere 5.5 cluster. We have a dedicated cloud package from ovh made with 2 hosts and 2 nfs storages.Storages are 300 Gb each. There will be 3 VM with...
View ArticleQuery regarding multiple iSCSI software adapters.
Hi All,My query is regarding software iSCSI adapters. I would like to know if it is possible to have multiple software iSCSI adapters for a host? If yes, please let me know how...If no, what is the...
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unable to mount datastore after a raid event
Hi folks, i really need your helpesxi 5.1single host with internal storage (Hp DL380G7)after a disk replacement the logical volume become failed. we managed to replace the disk and the volume was back...
View ArticleManaging iSCSI connections with HA clustered hosts
I'm trying to find a better way to manage the number of iSCSI connections in my server lab. I would like advice on what I can do with what I have and allow for growth in the near future. -I have 20...
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HP MSA 1040
Hello,we buy HP MSA 1040 and now I need simply connect this iSCSI storage to both our HP Server.Is it OK this connection without swith between server and storage? And how can I assign IP to iSCSI...
View ArticleiSCSI over two network card?
Hi.Is it ok to create iSCSI connection over two different network card?I have a few servers with 2 4-port 1Gb ethernet card, and I mean to use one port of each card to get redundancy. Is there any...
View ArticleDefault storage namespace
Question up front: What namespace is used for a storage device if no other namespace can be determined? Background: I've been working with VMware since 3.5 days, but I'm finally doing a VCP class....
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