Storage requirements for vSphere (SMB and Midrange)
Hi!Can you share your storage selection experience for vSphere?I'm interested in SMB and Midrange segments, from 2-4 hosts to 10-40 hosts (1-2 racks).- vendor and model and why?- what functionality do...
View ArticleLun FC no se Visualiza
He notado que últimamente en algunas plataformas virtuales no se visualizan las lun, al agregar una lun o se han desaparecido después de un tiempo de haberlas utilizado al realizar un scan estas no son...
View ArticleMoving ESXi host to a different vCenter. (RDMs involved)
Hi all, So, the scenario is the following. Customer has an older vCenter stood up with a single host running under one of their datacenters. This ESXi host has a few VMs, one of which has several...
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Error when trying to load files to datastore C-220 M
I got an error trying to upload/download a file to a datastore using Vsphere client 6.x. Anybody encounter this error before. The Esxi Version is 6.x.
View ArticleVMFS Recovery from DiskInternals to sell
Hi, I have a "VMFS Recovery from DiskInternals" license to sell. It still has 11 month of warranty. I used it to recover files from deleted datastore of a client but i don't need it longer. If...
View ArticleMSA 2040 Direct attached iSCSI
We are setting up a VSphere 5.5 environment - 3 hosts directly attached to an MSA 2040 with iSCSI. Is directly attaching the host to the MSA an issue or should we be using switches? Our hardware...
View ArticleSpace reclamation with Thin Provisioned VMDK on NetApp Filer (NFS) / VAAI UNMAP
Hello, We have a lot of VMs with thin-provisioned VMDKs on NFS datastores (NetApp cluster-mode filer) and we would like to do some space reclamation as the VMDKs tend to grow to the maximum size even...
View ArticleHow to gather Storage DRS migrations into a report
Hello All! Currently we use vCenter 6.0 and Storage DRS, I was wondering is there any method of making a report to keep track of what VM's get moved and where they got moved to datastore wise? We want...
View ArticleLAG on the storage cannot show up on the esxi host
hi, I have a storage connected to the physical switch with 2 NICs x 10Gb and configured with Link Agregation..I have an iSCSi Lun in this storage... in the esxi host I have configured a vSwitch with a...
View ArticleRestart ESXI hosts instead of lengthy Unmount and detach procedure
Hello Experts, Actually, we have requirement to make the SCSI ID consistent on several ESXi hosts connected with multiple datastores. We have planned to do it the following way: 1) Disable HA and DRS...
View ArticleHow to find datastore(lun) Physcial logical drive details
Hi all Virtual server running on data store of different luns. Need to find out which VM is running on physical drive presented to esxi. (luns)For eg I have 5 lun presented to esxi.(lun1 to 5) now i...
View Articlewhat is the con for thin provisioning for storage?
from what i know is1.) if storage is fail, really failure because it cannot support fault tolenance.what else part as above 1.)
View ArticleLost Access to Volume
Hi, I am using VMware ESXi 4.1. There is 5 disks installed in this host. 3 disks are configured in Raid5 and rest are independently configured in raid0 each (Total 3 virtual groups are there). I found...
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Should I use ISCSI Port Binding or NO Port Binding
Hello, I will soon set up an ISCI SAN and have to decide whether to use port binding or not. In the latter case, my setup would look just like the following I copied from the Vmware manual. In this...
View ArticleVOMA - LVM Major or Minor version Mismatch, Failed to Initialize LVM Metadata
Using ESXi 6.0 with the free version of vSphere. I simulated a short press of the power button via iRMC while a CentOS VM and a Windows VM were up. The host proceeded to shut down. It took a bit for...
View ArticleUnable to remove datastore
Hi, When I try to remove a datastore from vsphere I get the following error: Call "HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore" for object "datastoreSystem-15" on vCenter Server "xxxxxx" failed. The datastore...
View Articlehow to expand storage in vdp appliance
Getting alerts that VDP appliance is nearly full.I need to expand storage on it.
View ArticleLUN to Datastore
VMware since version 4.0 recommended to use LUN size of 2TB. Is there is any new updates about the LUN recommended size and best practice ?Also is it recommended to use 1 LUN for 1 Datastore, or add...
View ArticleLocal SSD write performance extremely slow
I'm assuming there's some optimisation/configuration options I should be changing in VMware to optimise for local SSD datastores, as I'm getting horrible SSD write performance when using VMWare...
View ArticleiSCSI SAN Storage Not Connecting
I've set up a Fujitsu DX100 S3 SAN with four iSCSI connections. As far as I know it's been correctly set up and I have tested this by connecting the SAN to a server which has correctly mounted the...
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