HP VSA 11.0 (2014) - Bad storage performance
2 hosts: Dell PowerEdge 720xd running vsphere 5.5 update 110 disks per host. 10k RPM 1.2 TB 2.5inchOne HP VSA per host, 2 vCPU and 8 GB memory per VSA. All the latest updates for VSA. Almost all the...
View ArticleStorage issue
I am Facing a storage Issue in vmware esx 5.0, i am using dell power edge 2950 server.Kindly help me in this
View ArticleRecompute Datastore Groups every two minutes
Hi All, I currently added a NFS Datastore on my ESXI hosts and now every two minutes I see Recompute Datastore Groups every two minutes. My VMKernel is configure for MTU 9000 and is on a DvSwitch Port...
View ArticleVmware vsphere 5.5 with VSA Version 5.5.0.2
Hello my name is Ezequiel and I have problems with VMware vSphere 5.5 with VSA 5.5.0.2 .I have bad performance in read / write disk in virtual machines. When I copy a file of 5.5GB on a virtual machine...
View ArticleVMDKs that cant be copied, renamed,deleted or used with a VM due to...
Hopefully you never have to work with a VM that blocks all operations and reports I/O errors.Having such a problem on a datastore with activ production-VMs can be a really pain - solving it with ESXi...
View ArticlePoor disk performance in virtual machines
Hi, I have an VMware ESXi 5.1 update 2 infrastructure. It consists of five hosts in a cluster. I have attached a fiber channel storage array to the hosts. I have shown a LUN to the hosts. I have...
View ArticleVMware 5.5 major Latency's! - System Down
Hi Everyone,I'm really in trouble and could do with opening my issue up to the Community!I have VMware 5.5u3 with Netapp storage FAS 2240.Ever since Thursday last week the system has been unstable, and...
View ArticleVsphere 6, IBM V3700, 10GbE Best practise
Hi Guys. Scenario : 1 x V3700 with dual controller each equipped with 2 x 10GbE. (4 x 10GbE total).3 x X Series with dual 10GbE2 x 10GbE switch for redundancy. I need multiple vlans within the...
View Articlevcenter mob ui shows incorrect CBT status
hello! i have vcenter 5.5 and esxi 5.5. i had enabled the CBT using the KB article vmware has and have power cycled the VM. the VM even has ctk disks when i checked the datastore. but when i go and...
View ArticleHow to delete an absend disk in a VSAN Node ?
Hi All I am learning VSAN...and I build a 3 nodes server in my VSAN lab, one day, a server could not see this data disk , and I replace disk but I find it generate a "absent disk " ...I try to delete...
View ArticleP2000 G3 FC Disk Latency ESXi 5.5
Hi All, First and foremost hello to everyone in the VMware community, new here and this my first post and i am hoping someone will be able to assist me as i am at wits end. Our Setup Hosts : DL380...
View ArticleI can't change directory in ESX 5.5
Hello,I'm logged on the root account with administrator privilegies and trying to access the directory /vmfs/volumes/datastore1, but im getting the message error: Permission Denied
View ArticleError no more space for virtual disk. Two 50TB vmdk into one 100TB VM...
I have a VM that is currently under 5.1. It has 3 disks mounted 30GB, 50TB, and 50TB. Each vmdk is below the 62TB limit imposed. The location they are stored on have 117.3TB free. Inside of the VM I...
View ArticleCannot Shrink/Convert 2048GB VMDK
Hello everyone, I have several 2TB (2048GB) thick vmdk files that I need to shrink or convert to thin/growable. The actual file sizes are 2,147,483,647KB. I have tried the VMware standalone converter,...
View ArticleExtremely high latency when migrating from local datastore to shared datastore.
Hi guys i hope you to help me. Sorry for my english btw, i'm not native. Let's begin! I have: 1 vCenter1 Host1 Distributed Switch (with one pg for management network/IPstorage of the esxi)1 Standard...
View ArticleDatastore Clusters and Different versions of ESXi hosts
I'm looking at building out a new ESXi cluster in our datacenter, and I was thinking of going with version 6 on the new hosts, but was wondering if I could connect to datastore clusters that are...
View ArticleHow to make vmware iscsi behave like linux iscsi initiator or microsoft iscsi...
Hi, I am newbie at vmware and I am trying to connect an iSCSI target (jscsi.org) at vcenter through its initiator. I already can do through NFS when I mount with open-iscsi initiator and NFS protocol....
View ArticleDataStore 2 VVOL Migration Problem
I have 13 VMs that I cannot storage migrate from a DataStore to a VVOL and I cannot find anything that these VMs have in common that might be causing this.Anyone else see this before. I have a call...
View ArticleCannot add vasa provider in vSphere 6 like I could in vSphere 5
I have two vSphere environments where one is on vSphere 5 (production) and one is on vSphere 6 (test). The production environment has no issue connecting to our VNX5200 VASA service url at...
View ArticleHP Proliant local logical disks not showing up. Please help
Pretty new to this whole thing, but have a decent IT background and do minor stuff in VMware at work. Have a HP DL380 that I installed ESXi 6.0 on. This server has a 120gb HDD for the OS. It has 3...
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