Addition of storage internal to ESXi host

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• Local storage and multiple ESXi hosts

  Hi, I was wondering how vWorkspace manages local storage in an environment with a single server Vcenter and two ESXi, with a local data store each.

  If I store a 'master' (I mean the gold statue) vm on the local storage of an ESXi, can replicate vWorkspace this virtual machine to the local storage of the other ESXi as Citrix VIAB?

  If not, how can I use both my ESXi servers with local storage and maybe provide some sort of HA?

  Am I forced to use a storage shared, if I want to be able to deploy clones related both to my ESXI?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Use vSAN, or no matter what virtual SAN Appliance as an iSCSI SAN storage to prosecute two storage facilities... You can replicate between the two servers and same LUNS are used by vWorkspace.

  • StarWind free iSCSI Solution A
  • OpenFiler
  • vSAN
  • Open-e iSCS SAN

  Quick search... www.unixarena.com/.../Top-10-Storage-appliance.html

• Addition of storage on server ESXi

  Hi all

  I have a question about adding storage to my ESXi server, at this moment I have a Dell Power edge T610 which has 3 physical disks with raid 5. Would it not as simple as just adding a new hard drive? Or is there something that will have to perform on the server to increase my free space.

  Thank you

  Richard.

  It depends on what exactly you want to do.  If you are wanting to add space to the existing RAID, then you need to configure the RAID as such through its control panel controller or application.  If you're only wanting to add another drive for more space for non-critical use, then you should be able to just add and go.

  If you have found this helpful at all prices please points using the correct or useful!  Thank you!

• adding additional disks to existing VMWare ESXi host

  If I have a VMWare ESXi host that has 2 disks configured in Raid 1 and later add more than 3 drives and configure these 3 drives in Raid 5, will host VMWare ESXi what to see and be able to use it without any settings?

  You may need to perform a new crawl, but there should be no problem. Make sure that your RAID 5 array is broken into less than 2 TB LUN. (2 TB less 512Bytes)

• Do I need an IP NIC of each Esxi host address?  VMs needs access to the storage network?

  Hi all

  The issue go, I have a host machine with 3 nic cards - > 1 for production network, 1 for the management network and 1 for the network backup.

  The guest PC VM inside will be connected to the 3 network,

  But for the host himself, will be used for management and backup only.

  T1) is the bears from production on the need for level ESXI host having an IP address as well?

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  Right of Q2) now my host use internal storage. If I'm to migrate to a SAN storage, I have 1 more network for storage.

  I understand that the configuration of virtual machines and their data are assigned and stored in the data store that is made visible at the level of the host.

  They must for the virtual machines access the data store, join the storage network as well? or they are access to the storage through the host

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  Kind regards

  Noob

  T1) is the bears from production on the need for level ESXI host having an IP address as well?

  A NIC itself does not require an IP address. Which IP addresses are required for VMkernel port groups (for example, networking, vMotion, storage access,...) as well as virtual machines.

  Right of Q2) now my host use internal storage. If I'm to migrate to a SAN storage...

  No, a virtual machine (i.e. the guest operating system) does not require access to the system of storage, only the ESXi host.

  André

• Map storage IBM to Esxi 5.1 CIFS host

  Hello

  I am a beginner with vmware, I just want to know is it supported for mapping a CIFS storage ESXi 5.1 IBM host, then use it as a data store for place of the virtual computer.

  Thanks and respect

  J.P. Raynaud

  Welcome to the community - no. it is not taken in charge - if you have the storage NAS/NFS, you will be able to access to I for your ESXi host - or if you want to present the end to VM you can access VM shared the CIF

• Dell VRTX + vCenter 5.5 + Shared storage is ESXi host import issue in vCenter. Help, please!

  All,

  I have two VRTX to be used for lab purposes that I am currently in configuration.

  Blades feature 4 VRTX with a shared storage infrastructure. Each blade has 5.5 installed on ESXi.

  I configured the shared on the VRTX storage, and all the blades can go very well.

  The question I'm currently facing is when you add the vCenter for managing ESXi hosts.

  Add the first host goes without a hitch. However, add any later host fail, because vCenter finds datastore attached hosts to have the same identifier.

  The error message is (see the attached screenshot): ' Datastore 'Main Shared-storage' is in conflict with a store of data that exists in the data center which has the same URL (ds: / / vmfs/volumes/xxxxx /), but is supported by different physical storage.

  Someone knows how to fix this?

  Thank you.

  Thanks for the reply.

  I think that I have found a workaround.

  First of all, this link does not address my particular issue.

  See, it's a whole new vCenter device installation and configuration. Only one of the four hosts to add host has been added.

  Still, the problem is that each ESXi host is a blade VRTX (M620), which has access to the data store created on the shared storage of VRTX.

  Basically, each host is editing the data store shared even (the only data store created on the shared storage), which works very well except for vCenter complain when you import the hosts.

  In any case, my resolution was as follows:

  -Add the first host with the attached and mounted data store

  -Remove the data store and detach the controller shared by other guests before adding in vCenter

  -Re-attach the controller shared and set up the data store via vCenter once guests have been added

  -Re-configure each host for vSphere HA if necessary

  Thank you.

• How can I migrate an ESXi host since a vDS in a vSwitch with NAS storage on vDS

  I need to move some on a vDS esxi hosts to a standard vSwitch to move a new vCenter ESXi hosts

  I have two 10 GB network adapters that manage the ports VM, NAS storage and vmotion.

  Is there a documented procedure to move a vDS in a vSwitch, particularly for migration from NAS storage to a vSwitch?

  Thank you

  Tom

  No, you will need to do this on a per-host basis.

  I really recommend doing one by one, not in a hurry and checking all the networking before you proceed to the next step. Example: after migrating the vmkernel interfaces, check on a ssh connection to the host if it can vmkping the NAS. Before you move all the virtual machines on the host to the switch std, move one and check if the VM networking continues to function. This will prevent errors and downtime.

• Storage vMotion-Direct between ESXi hosts

  Hi all

  It is my first time on the boards, I hope it's the right way to go on this subject.

  I have problems with Storage vMotion, it's not a set up us would use normally, rather than by necessity with the current scenario.

  We have a desktop which has 2 x 5.1 ESXi hosts. They do not have a budget for SAN with the installation of HBA, and it is only a single requirement. I have to migrate virtual machines from one to the other, but with no external storage. I wait with Storage vMotion directly from a local data store to another.

  I activated the software iSCSI on both ESXi hosts

  Created a vSwitch separated with a VMkernal on two physical hosts

  The two VMkernals are on a separate subnet * 172.16.1 and production vSwitch is 192.168.5. *.

  The NIC allocated for the 172.16.1 network. * is both connected to the same physical switch.

  I ping the VMkernal and the vmkping the VMkernal

  Scan for storage again and nothing shows up.

  I used software iSCSI before, for a long time so I'm probably rusty. Dynamic discovery is normally indicated in the SAN to pick up storage, and finds it just local storage on each host itself.

  In this scenario, I told the IP address of the ESX2 VMkernal on 172.16.1 ESX1. * since I have no external storage. I think it is, I'm wrong, but I don't know what else to do to recover local data warehouses.

  Any ideas to try would be very appreciated.

  Thank you

  Sorted by using 5.1 feature Shared-Nothing vMotion

• Trying to create a shared via iSCSI storage. Storage shows is not the second ESXI host

  I created an iSCSI lun and gone through the process of adding it to my first ESXI host. It displays well in storage adapters-> Details and I can also add as a data store.

  When I try and the same thing on my second ESXI, the iSCSI host does not appear under storage adapters-> Details (although properties are correct within the parameters of the iSCSI software card) and I can not add it as a data store.

  If I remove compleatley from the first host I can then add it to the second, but (I think) need in the two hosts to use a shared storage?

  I'm doing something wrong?

  Thank you

  What iSCSI solution do you use? Are there limits set on the number of connections?

• How to reach esxi host 5 on storage area network

  I have a Dell PS6000E on my network.  I would like to create a volume on it and use it as a shared storage for a new configuration of esxi5 with 2 hosts.  The PS6000 already contains 2 volumes in use by other servers (physical).  To access the PS6000 via my regular local network hosts.  Is this possible, and is there a documentation on how to put in place?

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community - I guess you access the PS6000E are configured for iSCSI or NAS/NFS, you will be able to access as shared storage long ESXi hosts can reach the unit. Because ESXi hosts will not be able to share the LUNS in use by other servers, you're going to create a new LUN for ESXi hosts. This storage of ESXi - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf - guide that has information on how to configure your ESXi servers to access the storage.

• ESXi host has not recognized the VM in the shared storage

  Hello

  We have installed ESXi host on our Blade Server and add the storage as a NFS storage device. There are in the NFS storage machine, Machine virtual files were there. But the ESXi host doesn't recognize any of the Virtual Machines.

  Could someone help me how to configure the file Vmdk to access via the ESxi host with out any resettlement.

  Kind regards

  Raghavendrachari

  If you go down each of the RHEl and VM1 files you should be able to add the vmx files to inventory

• Is it possible to use GPFS or another build is a SAN storage shared for multiple ESX and ESXi hosts?

  We have a license GPFS and SAN storage. I am trying to create a storage shared for multiple ESX and ESXi hosts share existing virtual machines. We tried once NFS, it of a little slow and consume too much bandwidth LAN.

  Anyone can help answer? Thank you very much in advance!

  It depends on your storage space.

  You must connect all hosts to the same San, then follow the configuration guide of ESXi and specific documentation for your storage space (for sharing LUNS on multiple hosts).

  André

• Single recovery of ESXi host disaster using boot USB device.

  Here's the scenario. I have an ESXi host 5.0 running from a USB device on a server blade using shared virtual machine network storage and is scratch storage. I have a failure catastrophic host. Can I just plug the USB device into another blade in the same chassis and start getting my VMs back operational.

  In addition, in a similar scenario if I have two devices USB with the same configuration information about them can use as a backup in case of failure of the USB device or is it config info constantly being written to the USB device which is used at the time.

  At the level of the configuration, you need not, this means that as long as you take a regular backup of the config, it is ok.

  But when you need to set up a backup system if a production system does not go and change the Server Blade, be sure to provide a coherent zoning and LUN masking for the blade, if VMware will see the same number of unit logic and tables as before. Same thing applies for VLANS, switches to which the new blade is connected must be configured in the same way that the old blade was (its ports must be in the same VLAN), or some VM can't see the network correctly.

  1. If a system is corrupt and you just need a fresh USB boot

  Plug a USB stick fresh, possibly already installed, boot, and then send the archived configuration, reboot

  2. If a full blade goes wrong, you must change the server.

  Put the WWNS of the HBAS in the same areas that the blade HBA has failed

  Present the WWN of the HBA to the storage group

  If you use the same chassis slotin, the network should be ok, but if not, put the internal ports of the switch module blade matches the new blade in the same VLAN as port internal used for blade failed.

  If you use VirtualFabric / VirtualConnect on 10GBE NICs, you must set up the same way, it was too much on the failed system.

  I hope that its more clear now!

• ESXI hosts 5-2 and the best way to configure vSwitch and Nic redundancy

  Hi all

  Could someone help me find the best way to configure the vNetwork on 2 5 ESXI host for redundancy.  Once I managed to correctly configure the 2 hosts I will seek to use the same installation process for 6 guests.  3 sites with 2 hosts on each site managed all of vCentre Server

  I have 2 DL380 G7 servers 5 ESXI installed on a class 10, 8 GB SD card, I'm looking to install VSA on the 2 hosts on each server with 4 TB of internal storage (8 * 600 GB 10 k SAS).  Each server has a gigabit integrated 4-port NIC and I installed a 2nd NIC gigabit PCIe 4 ports, I also x 2 16 switches of port with Layer 3 routing.  I use vSphere 5 Standard acceleration Kit I am looking to use vCentre server for managing, vMotion for maintenance, HA for the failover and VM 10/15 (vCentre Server Std, DB SQL to vCentre Server, Exchange 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, IIS Intranet, Helpdesk, 1 DC, 2 Domain Controller, AV Server, WSUS, SCCM Server, and Terminal Server server).

  What would be the best way to install and configure the network for performance and redundancy and am I missing something?

  My thoughts are, Teaming: -.

  vCenter - vswitch0 - port1 on NIC1 and port1 on NIC 2 - port1 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port1 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  vMotion - vswitch1 - port2 on NIC1 and port2on NIC 2 - port2 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port2 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  HA - vswitch3 - port3 on NIC1 and port3on NIC 2 - port3 on NIC1 physics 1 - port3 on NIC2 to physical switch 2 switch

  VM - vswitch4 - port4 on NIC1 and port4on NIC 2 - port4 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port4 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  or do I need an additional NIC on each server to hit the VM 12-6 VM for 2 ports on 2 NETWORK interface card, or maybe something else I missed?

  Thank you

  In your case, to keep it simple and what I can say here is what would be my recommendation:

  3 standard vSwitches

  vSwitch0:

  • Management - vmnic0, vmnic2

  vSwitch1:

  • vMotion - vmnic1, vmnic3

  vSwitch2:

  • VM network - vmnic4, vmnic5, vmnic6, vmnic7

  The only reason why that I didn't split the VM in other network adapters shipped is because the difference in the types of the DL380 adapter shipped and the PCIe quad.