ESXi 5.1 add partition
Hi,I have 2x 1TB HDD's set to RAID 1 in an HP Microserver however I cannot find out how to add partitions as currently am using only one of 500GB and another one of 20GB.Thanks
View ArticleSignificant difference from LeftHand 12.5 reported storage used space and...
Hi at all, I have a two nodes cluster made of two esxi 5.5 u2 hosts (clustered with vCenter) with a virtual centralized storage managed by HP LeftHandOS 12.5 Appliances.Making it simple, vSphere shows...
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Problem with root password for vSphere
Hello, I need some advice on what to do next and what my options are for this particular problem. Windows 2003 Network with two Domain Controllers. Multiple ESXs across six Fiber Attached Storage...
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Consultas Dipositivos externos ESXi
Estamos montando para un cliente un nuevo sistema con máquinas virtuales controladas por vsphere.He instalado el ESXi con la licencias de 60 dias y me encuentro los siguientes problemas: 1 – El CD del...
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How to remove x mbs at the beginning of a flat.vmdk ?
Does anybody know a way to cut lets say 100MB at the beginning of a flat.vmdk ?Any suggestions welcomeI am aware of the long way to do it:dd if=existing-flat.vmdk of=new-flat.vmdk bs=1M skip=100but I...
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VVOL and VSAN together?
Is it a supported configuration to have a VSAN enabled cluster also have VVOL storage presented?
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NFS datastore on vCenter ESXi hosts
I'm running out of space on our NAS Storage.Another unit would be very costly.It seems pretty easy to add another datastore from a NFS share. Are there any issues I should be aware of if I were to add...
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ESXi 5.5 + Dell Equallogic low read IOPS
I have performance issues on my infrastructure. I have connected array Dell Equallogic 6100 via SAN (1Gb/s) to my ESXi server. EQL is filled with SATA 7200rpm HDDs.I created new lun with one test...
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Runtime Name associated with vmk
Is there a way to tell if a Runtime Name such as vmhba33:C0:T1:L3 is assigned to a particular kernel port? We are connecting to a NetApp VIF ip address and I have 4 vm kernel ports so I am seeing 4...
View Articleverifying q depth of HBA
Following the instructions in KB 1267: VMware KB: Changing the queue depth for QLogic, Emulex, and Brocade HBAs the command strings to change the queue LUN queue depth of the HBA listed, along with...
View ArticleVMFS-3.46 file system
If a datastore is on VMFS-3.46 file system, will this support VAAI primitives? VMware recommends to create a new file system and moves VMs off of old datastore instead of upgrading it. If the file...
View ArticleDetect when a VM hits Disk IOPs Limit
HI, is it possible to identify VMs which hit the IOPS limit? Kind Regards,Markus
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vSphere 6.0U1b can't connect to newly created vVOL ProtocolEndPoint
I downloaded the latest vVNX to test the vVOL, my lab has 3 hosts with ESXi6 U1b and vCSA 6.0.0.10200. The vVNX is deployed to another esxi 6 and with one virtual HDD ( carved from 240G SSD drive...
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4kn HD support release date?
I spent a long time searching with no information on an ETA for VMware 4kn HDD support. Anybody know the answer. I got 4 brand new 2 TB SAS drives now just being used as paperweights. So the ETA...
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vmware datastore best size
i want to learn that what is the best practives datastore size. for example i have 10 tb storage . 2 x 5 tb datastore or 5 x 2 tb datastore so what is best for my vcenter
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VM Message : There is no more space for virtual disk xxx.vmdk
Hi, I've the abovementioned issue from last Monday. My both VM not working when the message prompted. Where should I free the disk space? I've tried "Retry" but nothing happened, I've no choice but to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cluster over vMSC, RDM usage with 3PAR Peer Persistence
HelloI'm testing next configuration :Microsoft SQL CAB Cluster with RDM in physical compatibility mode with 3PAR Peer Persistence and VMware Metro storage cluster. I know that it's not an easy set up,...
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(Urgent) Cold migration and storage vMotion timeout at 36% - ESXi 6.0 and...
(Urgent) Cold migration and storage migration timeout at 36% - ESXi 6.0 and vCenter 6.0
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Shrink disk size after deletion of data on guest OS - Thin virtual disk
We are using thin virtual disk for all our virtual servers. One of the challenges we are facing is disks are not getting reclaimed from guest OS if the data is deleted. For example, if I allocate a...
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iSCSI Multipathing - does each path refer to a particular target IP address?
Dear Experts, I've just configured one ESXi 6.0 host and a Synology ds2015xs NAS for MPIO/Multipathing. On the ESXi side I created two VMkernel adapters with a dedicated physical NICs each and all...
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