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• Best RAID for ESX 3.5 Configuration

  Hi all.

  I was wondering, what is the best configuration of RAID for ESX 3.5 performance?

  I have a HP DL360 G5 Proliant with several SAS drives.

  It will be better to make a RAID 5 o RAID1?

  Thank you!

  There is no best RAID for ESX. Depends on VM disk usage profile - so if you plan to install SQL server and then create RAID appropriate for SQL server.

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• solution for ESX iSCSI SAN

  Hello.

  We are looking into getting a SAN iSCSI for ESX.

  On readers, y at - there a big difference between sata and sas and sas 10K vs 15K?

  How iSCSI performance are compared to the SAN fiber?

  Can you guys recommend an iSCSI solution right?

  Excerpt from Dell PS4000 and it seems to be a good product.

  (On players, is there a big difference between sata and sas and sas 10K vs 15K?)

  Yes, 15 k SAS are faster and a bit more expensive, but worth it!

  (How iSCSI performance are compared to the fiber SAN?)

  ISCSI SAN is not as fast as the fiber, but compared to the local drive is a big improvement for your applications, users, etc.

  (You guys can recommend a good iSCSI solution?)

  Personally, I think Dell equallogic are great! PS600XV is what I put in place.

• best practices for networking for esx / vsphere 6

  best practices for networking for esx / vsphere 6

  Refer to VMware best practices documentation to get the depth on the networks.

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-PerfBest-practices-vSphere6-0.PDF

  https://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2107948

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMW_Netioc_BestPractices.PDF

  See also below article for best practices documentation relating to the different versions of vSphere.

  http://vmwareinsight.com/articles/2016/5/5798853/best-practices-for-VMware-vSphere-architecture

• Best Linux for host? ... and ESX vs. Workstation

  I've been running VM Workstation since 1999.  I just built a physical machine for my lab at home I want to only run on VMS.  I have two questions.

  What is the best linux for VM Workstation 8 host?

  I went the compatitibility guide at:

  http://PartnerWeb.VMware.com/comp_guide2/search.php?deviceCategory=software & testConfig = 17

  and put:

  Workstation

  8.0

  all the

  all the

  Linux

  Desktop

  64

  and it happens with Mandriva and SUSE.  It's weird.  No Red Hat?  No Ubuntu?  No Debian?  Mandriva is a French company funded by the Russians, which hurts me a little inside, and SUSE is not free.  It makes me wonder if this page is current.

  Which leads to my next question. ... Are there not some hypervisor product that does not even need a host operating system?  What ESX?  I can get all the features of Workstation (snapshots, etc.) with this hypervisor product? ... and of course, I can't spend $2,000 for a lab at home.   It seems to me that to remember that one of these products is free,... was it ESXi?  Can someone explain the differences between the workstation and ESX in a few sentences.  But if I need the version ESX is $2000, then too bad.

  I suppose that, ideally, I would like to install Workstation as a hypervisor (no host operating system).  Is there anyway to achieve this?  What do you suggest me?

  ESXi uses a very minimal video driver - a computer display virtual itself is not possible
  This is why you must use a second physical machine to view virtual machines

  inside the virtual machines, you get only a virtual video card - playing the latest games inside a virtual machine is not possible

  > or that, it cannot run on an i7? ... once again, really?

  This is not correct - do not know who told you that...
  ESXi is very picky when it comes to disk controllers - fake Raids and cheap stuff is not supported - but it will work with normal SATA drives

• Unable to connect to target iSCSI for ESX 3.5

  Hi all

  I have an esx 3.5 build 82663 (update 1). We took over this company, so we are migrating this data center. I understand tha patch isn't 5 update but it wasn't our environment and we try to turn it on.

  We have three esx servers

  (1) console production svc - 192.168.7.x

  (2) storage network - 192.168.9.x

  EqualLogic 3)-192.168.9.x

  (4) storage Switch - CISCO 3750 Switch

  (5) frames enabled on vswitch, vmknic, physical, switch, network interface cards, table vlan and storage.

  (6) software iscsi client allowed an outgoing connection through 3260 (tcp)

  Performed troubleshooting

  esxcfg-vmknic - l - seems ok and with activated jumbo frames

  esxcfg-NICS - l - looks ok with activated jumbo frames

  esxcfg-vswitch - l - looks ok with activated jumbo frames

  esxcfg-road - l - (looks good)

  192.168.7.0 255.255.255.0 local subnet

  192.168.9.0 255.255.255.0 local subnet

  by default 0.0.0.0 192.168.7.1

  Works of vmkping between the storage network interfaces (192.168.7.x) i.e. physical switch, equallogic, and other interfaces for esx storage network.

  vmkping s 9000 192.168.9.11 (equallogic san) works without packet loss.

  Ping does not work between interfaces.

  Ping of physical switch to the san and esx equallogic storage network interfaces work

  Access to LUNS equallogic shared among interfaces are restrticted by the ip address of storage network (192.168.9.x). The LUNS they check marks against them to have several initiators communicate with them.

  No enabled chap authentication anywhere.

  I had another server with the same configuration connection to it without problems to the only difference is esxi can be accessed and the esx servers cannot access.

  Our environment has been only esxi. This is the first time I use esx and a system of update 1 for iSCSI.

  I'm on the critical path to complete the project.

  It would be useful that I can get all the help you can.

  See you soon,.

  Knockaert

  If I'm not mistaken in your service console needed to have access to the storage network 3.5 too.  Try to configure a second service on the storage network console and see if you can view the LUNS.   Can also be useful to filter through the vmkernel logs and see if you notice any errors.

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• Which raid mode is the best performace with security for ESX OS?

  Hi all

  I need to rebuild the ESX OS, so I would like to know what raid mode is the best performace with security for ESX OS?

  No need to consider the capacity of the disks or numbers, just discuss the performace with security as raid 1 10 01 5 or 6?

  THX

  Hello

  Almost THEM are running with RAID 1, it's the default installation.

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• Implementation of electronic networks for ESX 3.5 with iSCSI?

  Well, I'll have a bit of a problem here...

  I have 3 VLAN:

  ID

  1 - network management

  2 - iSCSI network

  3 - production or Guest OS Communication LAN

  I can't figure out how to get properly configured ESX or something because my iSCSI storage is not being discovered. Can someone guide me on how my network cards should be configured? I have 6 network adapters and possibly their sticks, but for now I wanted to 1 for ESX management, 1 for iSCSI and 1 for the virtual computer network if that makes sense. If there is a better please let me know, but I defnitely want to configure my iSCSI is own VLAN (2). I have been through a few docs and can't make it work... Thank you...

  Ed

  Have you checked this here:

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1140885#1140885

• What is the best configuration of RAID practice for ESX 3.5 operating system

  Hi all.

  Recently, we encountered a problem.  After the failure of one of the hard drives in RAID 1, all file systems have passed in read-only mode. This table is used only for ESX 3.5 OS. Someone knows how to avoid similar problems in the future? Wich (1, 1 + 0, 5) RAID configuration is optimal for the ESX 3.5 Server?

  Other debates are: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1264678

  But I think you know very well

• Best practices for network configuration of vSphere with two subnets?

  Well, then I'll set up 3 ESXi hosts connected to storage shared with two different subnets. I configured the iSCSI initiator and the iSCSI with his own default gateway - 192.168.1.1 - targets through a Cisco router and did the same with the hosts configured with its own default gateway - 192.168.2.2. I don't know if I should have a router in the middle to route traffic between two subnets since I use iSCSI ports linking and grouping of NETWORK cards. If I shouldn't use a physical router, how do I route the traffic between different subnets and use iSCSI ports binding at the same time. What are the best practices for the implementation of a network with two subnets vSphere (ESX host network: iSCSI network)? Thank you in advance.

  Install the most common iSCSI would be traffic between hosts and

  the storage is not being routed, because a router it could reduce performance.

  If you have VLAN 10(192.168.1.0/24) iSCSI, VLAN 20 (192.168.2.0/24) ESX

  MGMT and VLAN 30 (192.168.3.0/24) comments VMs and VLAN 40 (192.168.4.0/24)

  vMotion a deployment scenario might be something like:

  NIC1 - vSwitch 0 - active VMK (192.168.1.10) MGMT, vMotion VMK (192.168.4.10)

  standby

  NIC2 - vSwitch 1 - current (VLAN30) guest virtual machine port group

  NIC3 - vSwitch 2 - active VMK1 (192.168.1.10) iSCSI

  NIC4 - vSwitch 2 - active VMK2 (192.168.1.11) iSCSI

  NIC5 - vSwitch 1 - current (VLAN30) guest virtual machine port group

  NIC6 - vSwitch 0 - MGMT VMK (192.168.2.10) standby, vMotion

  VMK (192.168.4.10) active

  You would place you on VLAN 10 storage with an IP address of something like target

  192.168.1.8 and iSCSI traffic would remain on this VLAN. The default value

  gateway configured in ESXi would be the router the VLAN 20 with an ip address of

  something like 192.168.2.1. I hope that scenario help set some options.

  Tuesday, June 24, 2014 19:16, vctl [email protected]>

• What is the best solution for this idea...

  I have a task I'm trying to test and understand what would be the best solution for this, any recommendations would be appreciated.

  Devices at your fingertips:

  -2 ESXi hosts

  -1 iSCSI SAN OpenFiler (new just installed the app)

  2 ESXi hosts run a small amount of virtual machines that are all in the same domain.  I want to have a file server (or a repository somewhere) that houses a folder with easily accessible software (OS, Office, etc.) on the field.

  According to me, that if I made a virtual machine with a large hard drive and share the software, this would not be the best way because it would be dependent on the OS.  Someone has talked about doing a separte VMDK for it and then install it on the operating system on the virtual machine. This way I could always remove the and mount it somewhere else.

  It seems a bit weird to me that the software within this "shared folder" will also be sitting on the data store (if I create a virtual machine and need to use the OS/etc).  Not that doubles the space for the same software (in the comments, then the data store)?

  What is the best approach to make this action which can be accessed at the prompt (mostly windows) in the field?

  What is the best way to stay away the software doubles in action and on the data store?

  Please forgive me if I put interpereted your question.

  The problem you seem to face is that you must mount the ISOs of VMS software and physical systems that are on the field.

  (please, correct me if I'm wrong on this)

  If this is the case, then the best way to do would be to create sharing NFS on the openfiler, if you use openfiler to main databases also then he would be better for sharing this was separated to prevent the other help to be able to tamper with the VMDK and VMX files for your virtual machines.

  This could then be mounted in ESX to access the ISOs. While being easy to install on Linux and Windows machines to access the ISOs.

  If you have questions about NFS mounting in windows, so, this link may help

  http://sagehacks.WordPress.com/2009/01/21/HOWTO-mount-NFS-shares-under-Windows-7

  If you are needing to access the VMs software and it is mainly the downloading ISOs then th ISO directly to the data store is possible.

  This allows you to use ESX to mount the ISO on the virtual machine.

  On the point that the software will use double disk space when you install the software on a machine virtual car will be on the network share and the VMDK virtual machines in the data store. That's right, and that's by design.

  Each virtual machine under ESXI is 'independent' (http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/virtual-machine.html)

  This means that each virtual computer must have its own copy of the application.

  This perspective reflection of each virtual machine as a separate system of 'physical '. They interact with each other as if they were physical systems.

  Each VMDK resembles a physical hard disk. Being accessible (in most configurations) 1 VM at a time.

  So if you had a set of physical systems connected to a domain and I wanted to install an application on each one, then each would have its own local copy of the application. It's the same thing with virtual machines.

  However

  If you configure a set of physical machines so that you run the software from a network share. It is possible to do the same thing using virtual machines using the exactly the same configuration. However, the chiefs more associated to this are important in both cases.

  Concerning

  Cyclooctane

• Best practices for vsphere 5.1

  where can I find the doc more up-to-date about berries EQL configuration / best practices with vmware vsphere 5.1

  Hello

  Here is a link to a PDF file that covers best practices for ESXi and EQL.

  Best EqualLogic practices ESX

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../20434601.aspx

  This doc mentions specifically that the storage Heartbeat VMKernel port is no longer necessary with ESXi v5.1.  VMware has corrected the problem that made it necessary.

  If you add it to a 5.1 system it will not hurt.  It will take an IP address for each node.

  If you upgrade 5.0 to 5.1, you can delete it later.

  Here is a link to VMware which addresses this issue and has links to other Dell documents which confirm also that it is fixed in 5.1.

  KB.VMware.com/.../Search.do

  Kind regards

• Best practices for HP DL385p G8

  Trying to find documentation for the implementation of a HP DL385p G8 for VMware Server. I would like to find a guide to best practices for this server? Been looking for but not found anything. I would like to find things are should hyperthreading turned on and so on. I use the ESXI from HP image for pilots, that all work but just want to find the settings.

  Thank you

  Hello

  you will find on this blog: BIOS settings in a VMware ESX (i) / vSphere environment. VirtualKenneth & #039; s Blog - hqVirtual | Quality rental a detailed explanation on all the BIOS settings and why you should enable or disable it.

  hope that helps.

• Change the path information for ESX ESXi hosts to access

  Hello all! I hope you guys can help me.

  I have about 47 hosts that I need to change it Round Robin storage path information. If I make the change in vCenter and restart the host it again changing fixed. So, I thought that I should change it to the level of the host through esxicli.

  I have about twice as many LUNS of the Hitachi SAN. I'd like to see if it is possible to make the change in all areas, in some way, or I need to make the change by host? Also, is there anything that I need to change sides San so that it works or not.

  I saw this VMware KB: modification of path information for ESX/ESXi hosts to access and assume that it is the best plan? But did not know of all put into custody, if necessary, that everyone ran to when doing this?

  You will need to make the change by the host and the KB you'll find is the right method.

• vSpere 5 Networking of best practices for the use of 4 to 1 GB NIC?

  Hello

  I'm looking for a networking of best practices for the use of 4-1 GB NIC with vSphere 5. I know there are a lot of good practice using 10 GB, but our current config does support only 1 GB. I need to include the management, vMotion, Virtual Machine (VM) and iSCSi. If there are others you would recommend, please let me know.

  I found a diagram that resembles what I need, but it's for 10 GB. I think it works...

  (I had this pattern HERE - rights go to Paul Kelly)

  My next question is how much of a traffic load is each object take through the network, percentage wise?

  For example, 'Management' is very small and the only time where it is in use is during the installation of the agent. Then it uses 70%.

  I need the percentage of bandwidth, if possible.

  If anyone out there can help me, that would be so awesome.

  Thank you!

  -Erich

  Without knowing your environment, it would be impossible to give you an idea of the uses of bandwidth.

  That said if you had about 10-15 virtual machines per host with this configuration, you should be fine.

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