Apply policy to not use more than 80% of datastore
Dears, Is there any way to apply a policy to not to use more than 80% of Datastore Capacity ? ThanksRajesh
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Read from primary gpt table failed on "naa.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Running ESXI 5.5 update 3 Seeing the below errors on my hosts and all of them are device id's for RDM's I am using on guests. 2015-11-23T17:36:30.579Z cpu17:48347)ScsiDeviceIO: 2363:...
View ArticleWhen a disk is expanded on a VM, could this lead to performance issues?
Hey All,To provide some background, we are hosting VM's for clients and one specific VM is having performance issues.As a test we cloned this VM and the cloned machine ran much better, this was running...
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NAS drive died, how to recover properly?
Hey,yeah to take this one away: someone fucked up ;-) Environment is ESXi 5.1.0NAS is Fujitsu Celvin q800 with raid 5 consisting of four hdd. Storytime:One of the hdds died and was replaced way to...
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NetApp iSCSI flexclone
I created a flexclone of our snapmirror iSCSI destination. I added it the initiator group so all the hosts can see the new flexclone datastore but when I go to add the datastore it shows up only on the...
View Articledetect 3par performance
I'm running several machines (50) in ESX 5.5 environment and I'm having performance deterioration in 3par 7200 storage (n.18 disks SAS 800 GB each one) infact total IOPS graph shows IOs reach 300...
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Snapshot has resulted in multiple virtual disks
Hi I have two virtual machines that now have multiple virtual disks after I took a snapshot of each and then removed the snapshot. I have attempted disk consolidation (vSphere reported that disk...
View ArticleI/O Flow and Block Size
Hi everybody I`m a little bit confused at the moment, maybe you can help me with a question ;-) Following the scenario:You have a Windows VM with a NTFS formated VMDK File which is formated with 4k...
View ArticleThick provisioned disks, VMFS volume runs out of disk space.....
Hey guys, so I'm running Debian on ESXi. I created 2, 800GB Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed disks and installed the OS, which leaves me with 27GB free on the two drives I used.I install the OS,...
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inactive storage.?
Hi guys, one of my storage on the ESXi is off and called inactivewhat its mind ? how to fix it? (esxi 5,5) thanks
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Unable to connect to the requested VDP Appliance 5.5
Good day dear.I have the VDP appliance installed on my below when I try to open it in vCenter, this error message me.I would appreciate your help. Unable to connect to the requested VDP Appliance....
View ArticleDifference between VMFS 5.58, 5.60 and 5.61
What is the difference between the different versions of VMFS - 5.58 of ESXi 5.1, 5.6 of ESXi 5.5 and 5.61 of ESXi 6.0? There doesn't seem to be any change logs that I can find, and there doesn't seem...
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How much of datastore should be left for the host its own to run
Hi all, I have EXSI 5.5 host installed recently. I am going to create a new VM machine on that host but the datastore on that host is about 2TB and I want to set 1.8TB for my VM machine so I only have...
View ArticleOrphaned Snapshops after Trilead Backup
My datastore is going to be full after a few more backups (ESXi 6.0). Using Trilead v6.0. I have about 50 snapshots that I am unable to remove through snapshot manager (ranging in size between 8-18...
View ArticleUNMAP, do you fully get it?
Yes, there are quite a lot of blog posts about UNMAP out there. But do you really get it? Me not. What I do now so far is, that It does reclaim space on your VMFS Volumes. So far so good. But here my...
View ArticleEasier way to add SSD Drive Type
Hello, We are running vSphere 5.5.0 Build 2183111 and ESXi 5.5.0 Build 2143827 Update 2. Connected via FC is a NetApp FAS-2240 with one shelf of SSD drives. We have presented LUNs to vSphere and...
View ArticleIs it possible to take Snapshot and do storage vMotion with Phy RDM
Any info on this???? Any enhancements made in vSphere 6.0????? Thank you.
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Zero space reclaim process on ESXi 5.5 hosts
Hi All, What is Zero space reclaim process on ESXi hosts. Storage team ask me to do this Zero space reclaim process on ESXi hosts, This activity was carried out by my teammate who left the company....
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VmKernel_LoadVMKModule(emcp): Unresolved symbol
Hi I see on all ESXi 5.5 servers in the cluster, when i use iLO console displayed again and again log below, without possibility to interact with the console, could you please advice what might be...
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Flash Cache Config
Guys, we're looking to deploy Flash Cache on one of our clusters. vSphere 5.5 (Enterprise Plus)BL490c Gen9Dynamic Smart Array B140i2 x 800 GB I was looking to see if anyone had any best practices...
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