Best RAID for ESX 3.5 Configuration

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• Best practices for backup service console configuration

  Hello

  When you install our ESX servers, I did what I thought was best practices and created a "backup" vswitch with a second service console. Two service consoles have IP addresses on the same subnet.

  They work very well for several weeks. But today, I had a problem connecting to the consoles of the virtual machines on one of our ESX host. After much troubleshooting, I found doc below...

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?language=en_US & externalId = 749640

  In point 8, it is said to make sure that you do not have 2 consoles of service on the same network. (Either by the way once I removed the backup vswitch I could access the consoles.)

  I so wanted to check this - should I not create these backup service consoles?

  TIA,

  H

  You don't have to second service console, just a second link to SC.

  Add a NIC to portgroup SC (it can be standby NIC), which would be enough.

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• Best NAS for ESX iSCSI

  Hi everyone, we have two ESX Server 3.5 with virtual machines running on a QNAP TS-509Pro and it works well, mhmmh, pretty good really, because when a drive failure happened and replace a disk, during the reconstruction of the nas is very very slow and sometimes we packets lose... a disaster!

  Well, we are looking for a NAS iSCSI, not too big, but with good performance and max 4/5 TB of disk space.

  Around this forum we found for Thecus feedback, but I think it's very similar to QNAP (linux inside).

  Some people suggest me iSCSI SAN PS5000 Dell and HP Storage Works, but it seems very very slow!

  Any suggestions for brands and models?

  Kind regards

  Marco Ciacci

  The best Nas solution seems to be Netapp - and the nice site is it can iscsi also (iscsi free license?).

  If you decide to use iscsi and then the EQL belongs to your narrow choice. Hp with iscsi boxes do not have the best reputation.

  Below that you can find other boxes also - MD3000i Dell or IBM DS3xxx series and then a few small vendors like promise or Infortrend.

  You get what you pay for - I could tell - but by some providers, you pay more than you get. Support and quality are not not to forget.

  We here EQL and we are very pleased with them (with the support too) - but are not cheap - includes some features that you may not have.

  The last time much heard about Datacore products - very interesting when you for example 2 locations connected with GB or CF.

  Just my 2 cents.

• Recommendation of RAID for Equallogic iSCSI SAN?

  We look at a Dell/Equallogic PS6000E with 16 drives of 1 TB, it connects to our servers ESX 2-3 (about 15 virtual machines running) and to a SQL cluster (mainly a SharePoint service workload size).  Dell recommends RAID5, which would give us ~ 12 useful to.  Frankly, if we had used 8TB, that would be fine.  Any recommendations for the best RAID for Equallogics level?

  Thank you

  Chad

  If you can really just 8 to, I must say raid 10...   Reference Dell suggests always raid 5 no matter what.

  Now best practices is to create several groups of disks with different raid levels for the taste of storage at your fingertips.

  You are going to have to make some calls to judgment on how to implement.     I suggest you test conversions PtoV tour and play with the config some before deciding, but I know that it is now possible in most cases.

  Dell has an excellent white paper on the table.  It's for the MD3000i, but the raid types and most other info still apply to the DAS or san during raids.

  http://www.Dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/pvault_md3000_whitepaper.PDF

• See RAID on ESX

  Is there a way to know RAID for ESX group without rebooting it? ESX 4.0

  check this: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1521125

• 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

• 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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• Recommendation of RAID for new construction ESX 4 Enterprise?

  Hi all

  My organization will soon implement VSX 4 company on a new server. I'm looking for best practices or recommendations for the RAID level and the partition configurations.

  Server type: IBM X 3650MZ

  Network: 8 NETWORK interface cards (2 host connections and 4 for connections to other networks) which means that 2 of them will be inactive at the moment.

  Memory: 72 GB RAM

  Storage: 300 GB 10 000 RPM x 12 readers.

  All links to the documentation would be very appreciated.

  That's why any ESX host order comes with possible disks to install ESX on the smaller AIRLOCK, and only two disks in RAID 1 configuration. It burst as I've mentioned offers more protection against a drive failure and wipes potential partitions during the upgrade of the ESX host. For a production environment, I would not risk of data or host, lost by placing it as a single, large, volume.

  Use the rest of the space on the Board of mirroring (where lived ESX) to your ISO library.

  I can also plan for the host depending on whether you buy to have just two, smaller than possible, SAS disks in it. In the meantime, get a few storage attached to the network and start migration to it. See if you can get the funds following years or more earlier, budget so that you can build right forward.

• Best disk for my nice new laptop Asus ROG Configuration

  Hey everybody!

  I just bought an ASUS ROG G752VT-GC046D (German Web site link), which has a 1 to 7200 RPM HARD drive. The computer has two empty 2280 m2 slots for disks SSD NVMe. I wonder what is the best configuration of disk while keeping my low costs? I do 1080 p video editing in Premiere Pro (30 FPS and 60 fps) and do a job after effects. I hope that the 4K video editing will be possible on this machine. But 4K is not a must, I would like to keep in mind when selecting disks.

  
  

  Data sheet:

  I7-6700HQ

  GTX 970M 3 GB GDDR

  16 GB DDR4 (2 of 4)

  FHD LED 17.3 "display

  Maniboard: Intel CM236 (Skylake PCH - H) (im not sure at 100%, I found this on another website for G752VT)
  

  3 x USB 3

  1 x USB 3.1 / Thunderbolt
  

  1000 GB 7200 RPM HARD drive

  2 empty slots for disks SSD NVMe M.2

  Discs cannot be configured in RAID
  

  I have a 250 GB SSD 850 EVO in my old computer I can use (currently I use only this disk to edit). Speed reading and writing od 540 MB/s and 520 MB/s, respectively

  Configuration 1

  1 drive: operating system, programs, Pagefile - 128 GB SSD PM951 NVMe M.2 2280 = €65

  2 disc: media, projects - 1 TB 7200 RPM 2.5 "HARD disc

  3 disc: overview, media Cache, exports: 256 GB SSD PM951 NVMe M.2 2280 = €145

  250 GB SSD 2.5 "or sold laying around EVO 850

  Investment = €210

  Configuration 2

  1 drive: operating system, programs, Pagefile - 128 GB SSD PM951 NVMe M.2 2280 = €65

  2 disc: media, projects - 250 GB EVO 850 SSD 2.5 "(slower than PM951) SATA connectors"

  3 disc: overview, media Cache, exports: 256 GB SSD PM951 NVMe M.2 2280 = €145

  4 disc: backups & old projects - 1 TB 7200 RPM 2.5 "HARD disc

  Investment = 210€

  I read the Page Tweakers on the configuration of the hard drive, but I don't know how to apply the knowledge practically while keeping in mind that I am not a super pro user with a huge budget but rather someone who wants to get better, but has a limited budget.
  

  What are your thoughts on my Configurations, do you recommend improvements? Is the Configuration 2 the best bang for the buck (or euro)?

  Looking forward to your answers.

  Best,

  Gorazd

  If you already have the evo 250 GB and you want to use into the laptop

  Disc 1-250 GB samsung 850 evo = os/apps/pagefile/db cache

  Disc 2-512 GB samsung 950 pro = project/media/previews

  Disc 3-1 TB 7200 RPM hard drive = enclosure external usb for backups

  So just buy a disc, the samsung 950 pro and a box external usb 3 for the 1 TB hard drive.

  If you want to keep the internal 1 TB drive, then I think you have to go with two readers of m2. a pm951 of 128 GB or a little better sm951 for os/apps can work.

  Skylake was almost a flop for the gain in performance over the last generation cpu. If new portable computers skylake are good for features such as Thunderbolt, which is good for the expansion or upgrades, including egpu.

• 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]>

• 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

• 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 practices for active directory / dns / hostname configuration

  Scenario:

  DNS servers are not integrated with active directory and all hosts of VMS esx virtual environment have host names on the dns comain called inside.contoso.com - such as an esx server called "esx1.inside.contoso.com" and a virtual machine called "linuxvm1.inside.contoso.com".

  We have set up a domain active directory to manage authentication for the vcenter server.  This domain active directory must be a subdomain of the existing - such as dns domain

  'addomain.inside.contoso.com '.

  What is recommended in this scenario?

  In addition, the vcenter server should be designated as a member of the domain such as "vcenter1.addomain.inside.contoso.com".

  or should it be named 'vcenter1.inside.contoso.com '.

  We have currently a scerario, where domain active directory is not a subdomain - i.e. the AD domain is nwtraders.local and dns domain is "inside.contoso.com" when the vcenter server is added to the ad domain, its host name is "vcenter1.nwtraders.local".   When vmware customers to computers outside the domain of advertising then connect to this server vcenter, problems result from this AD/DNS/hostname design and some features of the vmware client do not work correctly as a result, unless the client vmware runs on a computer joined to the domain, nwtraders.local, which is not possible for all computers.

  Any comments or thoughts appreciated - thank you

  You have an AD domain that is used for your server vcenter only - which is pretty safe. Ms. do guides on building server roles such as domain controllers - you may wish to consider looking at these.

  Regarding the DNS to use - there is no right or wrong answer, this is which option is the best solution for your organization, given the technical, commercial, geographical or political demands.

• Suggestions of RAID for local storage of ESXi5.

  I'll put up a little POC ESXi 5 Ent environment and you want to use local storage. (5 x 146 GB 15 k disks). I'm not really worried about space, the virtual machine will be small and fair for the POC, but I want to put in place the discs of the best that I can. I read about a large RAID 5 and 1 spare HD, 1 small RAID 1 for ESXi and then RAID 10 for VM.

  What is a good best practice which will INCLUDE a built-in redundancy incase I want to lose a player.

  Thank you!

  Say 5 concerts for esx...

  Make at least 6 GB for the operating system and scratch partition can be configured! Depending on how the controller RAID calculates disk space, 5 GB may be simply too little a few bytes. I usually do 10 GB which allows for a small store of data that I use for ISO images.

  André

• Implementation of the array for esx server

  Hello everyone:

  This is my first post here, and I'm a newcomer to virtualization. I've seen given the task of putting in place an esx server. Now, I need to configure a processor computer double hearts HP DL380. I need to set up a 20 GB partition for esx and the rest of the disk space for the second partition for the VMs.

  My question is, what is the best configuration of raid for this scenario.

  Thank you.

  The best option will be to go for RAID 5 (HP RAID DDG), if you want a higher level of redendany (2 disk failures) go for RAID ADG (RAID 6). I recommend that you create a table and two driving logic. A first for the ESX operating system and second to the VMFS. VMFS to allocate a larger share.