VMware ESXi 5.5 U1 configuration with QNAP TS-870 using iSCSI
I am trying to configure my VMware ESXi 5.5 U1 host to have a datastore on my QNAP TS-870 using iSCSI.Following the configuration everything is functional and I can access the new datastore to upload...
View ArticleiSCSI connection via vMotion interface?
I am going to move an old iSCSI SAN that is configured on a vSphere 4.1 system to a new vSphere 6.0 and use it for backups. The old iSCSI SAN controllers are set up with the IPs in a 172.16.0.1/24.We...
View ArticleI have some datastores connected to ESXi 6.0 hosts that have some disk...
I have some datastores connected to ESXi 6.0 hosts that have some disk signature issues after a storage migration. We were able to force mount them at the time to get the environment back up. Now we'd...
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Datastore Degraded with all appliances online
Hi, We need some help. We have a cluster with 3 nodes, on the vsa manager tab we can see:We can see all appliance online but there are one of these that not export his datastore.We checked all network...
View ArticleBalancing VMDK between 2 SANs with sDRS?
Let’s say that you have two SANs with three datastores each. --SAN1---|---SAN2---------------|---------------1DS1---|---2DS1----1DS2---|---2DS2----1DS3---|---2DS3-- Now let’s say that you have 4 VMs...
View ArticleBest practices for SQL vmdk location
Hi, I am having a bit of trouble in my own head trying to work out the best way to provision SQL disk in our vsphere environment. I have a datastore cluster which has everything in it. OS, data disks,...
View ArticleConnecting ESXi to two different iSCSI SANS
I have my vSphere 6 connected to a Equallogic iSCSI SAN and would also like to connect to a new Nimble array. I added the new array to the discovery list as well as the appropriate CHAP information and...
View Articleesxi 6.0: delete snapshot or consolidate snapshots report: XXX...
XXX com.vmware.vc.VmDiskConsolidatedEvent.formatOnVm not found XXXXXX com.vmware.vc.VmDiskConsolidatedEvent.category not found XXXhow to resolve this error?
View ArticleSSD SAN Recommendations
Can anyone recommend an SSD SAN with about 6TB usable after RAID? Do they exist under £25k? Thanks Rob
View ArticlevSphere with IBM V7000 compression
Hello, we have installed new IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2. One of the features that we turned on is real-time compression. Everything works as it should but there is a problem where compression gains aren't...
View ArticleBest way to add iSCSI storage to VM Win 2012 R2 File Server
Hi, First of all I don't know this is the right place to post this question / discussion so I also posted this in the vSphere Storage forum. We have created a VM with OS Win 2012 R2 to create a file...
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brocade port licensing
Hello there.I know this is not a brocade community, but I also know that there are a lot of versatile specialists here and I think someone will help me with my question about brocade port licensing...
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When downloading a thin provisioned vm to USB flash drive it seems to be the...
I built 2 vm's on my local virtual environment to be used in another environment across the country. I thin provisioned both of these vm's and then downloaded them from the data store to a USB flash...
View ArticleThroughput calculation
Hello Team, I'm reading one the design book, in that they said Throughput = TOTAL IOPS * size of the IOPS = 55 MB/sThroughput = 6875 * 8k = 55 MB/s i just want to understand how they have calculated...
View ArticleCan you share local datastores between multiple hosts?
Hi Everyone, I am new to VMWare, and need assistance setting up shared datastores to enable FT. I have 3 ESXI 6.0 hosts with two local LUNS attached to each as datastores. I understand that I need a...
View ArticleAdaptec RAID 71605Q
My goal is to run esxi on a small ssd, then create a large RAID array that's hanging off an Adaptec RAID 71605Q card, in the same physical system. I'm struggling with this; I have esxi 6 (the free...
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High latency spikes on new SSD SAN but only in ESX
So we just put in a new Compellent SC4020 SAN and i'm noticing that occasionally ESXi (5.5) is reporting crazy latency like anywhere from 300 to 1000+ms under performance/datastore but on the SAN side...
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VMFS datastore comaprison and use case NFS vs. iSCSI ?
Hi All, Using the NAS device TVS-471 :: QNAP can anyone here please share some thoughts and comments about which VMFS data store technology NFS or iSCSI would be performing better for hosting...
View ArticleVm drive bad performance
Hello Experts, Actually one of my vm disk drive is giving me very bad performance ( even while copy some data from one drive to this drive) . The server is used for SAP and the drive is the db drive...
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VERY slow SAN performance on ESXi hosts and VMs
Greetings, everyone. I encountered strange activity in my company's storage area network (BTW, I'm totally noob in this field). In short: ESXi hosts and VMs disk throughput rate is from 24 MiBps to 130...
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