GlusterFS
Hi, I have recently just come across gluster. I was wondering if anyone has had any experiences with using either GlusterFS or Gluster Storage Platform to provide storage to vSphere environments. I...
View ArticleRoundRobin Path Selection,but...
On our ESX 4.x hosts, we currently use 'Fixed' path selection for the storage. However, every LUN currently has 4 FC paths and 2 iSCSI paths. We typically only use the iSCSI in the event of a fiber...
View ArticleInstalling VSA on single node
Hi, I am wondering if I can Install VSA on a single node, then add a second node later ? The scenario is that i have 2 Dell serversi. R620 (ESXi 5.0 installed on SD cards and has 8x300GB SAS HDD) -...
View ArticleVirtual (Windows) Fileservers with a lot of storage
I want to virtualize our fileservers which are now fysical and running on Windows Server. These servers are connected through a fiberchannel network to a SAN and have a fiber channel LUN assigned. In...
View Articleadding a lun to multiple storage groups
Is it ok to have the same luns in multiple storage groups? I am setting up a new cluster and its on its own storage group. But I need to have the other luns mounted in the other cluster so that I can...
View ArticleFailure of RDM mapping of local SATA storage
I'm struggling with an RDM mapping to local SATA storage. I have a P9x79 WS mobo running ESXi 5.1. I want to use FreeNAS in a VM with two Western Digital Red 3 TB drives. When I follow the steps to...
View ArticleFalconStor NSS Gateway Appliance
Dear All, we are looking for new and cost effective storage solutions. Does any one have FalconStor NSS Gateway Appliance running in their production environment. If so could pl. post your...
View ArticleWindows 8 problem
Hi, I have ESXi 5.0 U1 with HP SAN. The server is HP DL 580 G7 8 Core.There are several Machines running perfect but now I am tryin gto install Windows 8 that is not proceeding further. After initial...
View ArticleDisk device path not specified for RDM backing
Hi, I am currentlly trying to create shared storage to use on a Microsoft cluster within ESX 5.1 environment. We are using a NetApp SAN (V3160 Series) When the LUN is created and attached to...
View ArticleIncrease IOPS for a Single VM
Hi All,Not sure if these possible. I have a ESXi 5.0 installed with 15 VM's running. and one of the VM has huge latency , people access the application installed on that VM continously and due to these...
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What is the benefit of allocating multiple VMs in one datastore?
Hi, Quite a stupid and basic question but I cannot answer it . What is the benefit of having multiple VMs in one VMFS datastore instead of having each VM in one different VMFS datastore? (eg. 3 VMs in...
View ArticleStorage Array - Performance Knee
Good morning. We're an SMB-sized governmental entity (10 hosts and <100 VMs) and we're finalizing a list of storage solutions (EMC VNX, HDS HUS, NetApp FAS, Tegile HA21xx and X-IO ISE-2) to replace...
View ArticleESX4.1 and MD3200i Pathing Issues
Hi Folks, New to this forum community, so please bare with me if this is in the wrong place or the detail isnt quite as much as you require. We have just purchased an MD3200i, which is connected to...
View ArticleIs Unified Storage a pipe dream?
Quick background. I've worked quite a bit with Netapp's version of unified storage and now with a different company we're onboarding a new VNX 5300 Unified platform for use in our VI4. I'm more of a VI...
View ArticleVAAI and VM VDisks performance
Hi,Apart from VM management operations such as cloning, migrating, creating vDisks, etc... should VAAI affect also the performance once the VM is created and configured? In my case I am performing a...
View ArticleOptimizing NFS performance with vSphere 5.1 using Oracle Sun ZFS Appliance
Hi all, Would like to get input from members of the forum on optimizing NFS performance for vSphere 5.1. Performance has been good but I haven't found a lot of shared knowledge around Oracle Sun ZFS...
View ArticlevSphere disk size on iSCSI SAN
Hello, I've installed version 5.1 and going to be using VMWare View also. I see in the doucmentation that there is still a 2TB disk size but also seen conflicting reports on that. I've tested it and I...
View ArticleHow to Isolate iSCSI NW From Managment NW ESXi 5.X
I have Installed ESXi 5.0. By default there is a vmkenel & vm network Port Groups are present, with vswitch0 & vmnic0 I have Created one more vmkenel Port with new vSwith1 & vmnic1 for...
View ArticleBest Practice Setting up VNXe 3150
Hi Guys,I'm in the process of migrating from current AX to VNXe 3150 iSCSI SAN Storage. I'm wondering what are the best practices to implement this storage, Multipathing MPIO, default MRU, etc etc......
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small environment - how many datastores?
Hello. I am new to VMware and am building a relatively small virtual server environment - 2 ESXi hosts and probably 8-10 VM's. I have a storage array in a SAN with iSCSI, CIFS, NFS capability. The...
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