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

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  I can VM vMotion (without shared storage) between two hosts with different vSwitches standard? The vSwitches on these two hosts have different names and number of NIC, but have the same name of portgroup.

  
  Thank you.

  Yes, you can in a Storage VMotion to one Esxi to another with no shared storage...

  It is important the portgroup bears the same name... This is the reference for the VM...

• How can I access a guest on a shared storage to another host?

  I want to better understand fail the course and the first thing I want to do is the following.

  I installed a guest disk storage fibre channel. I want to remove it from a host, and hosted it on another host.

  How can I go about it?

  Mike

  With your two hosts of ESXi, you will be able to access the same LUN.  On host 2, browse the data store, right-click on the VMX file and select Add to the inventory.  You can have virtual machine saved on both hosts, but the host that is running the virtual computer locks the files if you will not be able to accidentally start the virtual machine.

  You can also consider adding the vCenter server to manage your hosts together.  Until the end of April, you can get 3 licenses VC agent for US $500 and vCenter Foundation.

• Access the SMB storage using esxi host and manage with MS server 2008

  Hi there, I know the subject line can be confusing, but I didn't know how to explain what I need in the line object in such a short sentence.

  in any case, I have a storage device SMB, a Promise VTrak M610P, which is attached to a blade server 1U HP through interface channels double Ultra 320 SCSI host. I can't configure the VTrak as a NFS, the only way to access logical drives is connected to a server via the scsi channels and using the operating system to share the drive and the shared disks.

  I would use a server blade with dual ultra 320 SCSI host interface channels and connect the VTrak to this server blade. Then I would install ESXI hypervisor OS 5.5 to this server blade. I want to know is if the ESXI operating system will recognize the logical drives and if I create a virtual machine with MS server 2008 and see if the virtual machine detects logical drives, so that I can share the drives? I hope that I'm supposed to and if I'm not, please let me know what makes no sense, I will do the best to explain it better.

  Thank you

  Andy

  So it turns out that there seems to be something wrong with vClient when you add a hard disk (virtual disk) to a virtual machine of size greater than 4 TB. Article VMware KB: value of range error message when you add more than 4 TB capacity discs in vSphere Client describes this if you encounter this problem, add the hard drive via vSphere CLI, CLI power or vmkfstools. So this seems to be a known issue on vClient. What I ended up doing was using vClient, creation of hard disk, adding to the virtual machine (size of the hard drive is to 5.45) and when I would get the error message on the DiskCapControl out of reach, I would just click OK and then finalize the creation of the hard drive on the virtual machine. Once the process is complete, I selected the virtual machine and noticed that he indeed added a new HDD size 5.45 TB even if he's complained about it. I pulled to the top of the virtual machine with windows server 2008 R2 installed and was able to create a new disk under windows and set it up as a shared drive on the network. Looks like vClient must be updated by VMware and correct this bug, if it's a bug that I think. Thank you for the help vervoort!

• 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.

• Upgrade and migration of 3.5.0upd0 to 4.0upd1 and shared storage iSCSI

  Hi people,

  I've got 2 ESX host: Alpha and beta. Two of them are connected to a cabin of iSCSI with some created shared storage drive (all VMFS3 v3.31). And both had ESX 3.5.0 update0

  I migrated all the VMS running in the Alpha host for shared storage and made host Beta to run (clones cold or simply reassign files). Then I bâtait Alpha from scratch and I installed vSphere 4.0 in it. I also created in its local storage space bit a new virtual machine with vCenter4 inside. It has worked well.

  Then I had to migrate Beta and its virtual machines, too. I first tried to manage the host with vCenter4, but it is not backward compatible.

  So I'll use the host update utility to upgrade beta I saw in a video tutorial, but my doubts are...

  • Option 1:

  Disable all virtual machines managed in host Beta.

  Configure the iSCSI client in Alpha, add storage shared cabin and try to manage the virtual machines already extinct. This reduces the time to downgrade.

  Upgrade Vmware Tools in the virtual machines (v4 to v7 type VM). Required reboots.

  Upgrade host Beta (with no SMV in there and unplug the cable of iSCSI) vSphere4.

  Connect and configure the iSCSI version beta customer.

  Manage the host with the new vCenter4 Beta.

  Configure the vMotion, DRS etc. in both hosts.

  • Option 2:

  Disable all virtual machines managed in host Beta.

  Upgrade host Beta (with no SMV in there and unplug the cable of iSCSI) vSphere4. Downgrade time increases.

  Connect and configure the iSCSI version beta customer.

  Upgrade Vmware Tools in the virtual machines (v4 to v7 type VM). Required reboots.

  Manage the host with the new vCenter4 Beta.

  Configure the vMotion, DRS etc. in both hosts.

  Which option is the best? Maybe is it possible to apply a third? What do you think?

  Thanks in advance.

  without loss of performance?

  Yes. VM with v4 works very well.

  The only problem is that you lose some new features, like the new drivers and FT.

  Note also that Standalone VMware Converter 4.x can also convert between v4 and v7 and vice versa.

  André

• design storage on ESXI 5

  Hi all

  I need to design a new infrastructure for one of my clients. At the moment customer uses any virtualization.

  I implémenterai VMware vSphere in the new infra.

  I would like to have your opinion on the storage part.

  I want to use an external SAS storage shared between 2 ESXI hosts to take advantage of the HA and for the future provisioning. I want to set up a RAID 10.

  Don't you think I will get better performance if, during the RAID10 matrix:

  (A) I create 2 LUNS with 1 data store on each. A DS dedicated to the virtual machine disks and one for the data on disks

  (B) I create 1 LUN with DS 1 where I mix readers of the system and data for all virtual machines

  In the first period, I get around 8VMs with Windows 2K8R2 with a mixture of roles (AD, Exchange, DB,...)

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  c: 2 luns, each 1 data store. joint.

• Access NAS storage of ESXi Server using VMKernel Port?

  Hello

  I would like to know the best procedure to connect to the NAS storage of ESXi host 5. I am able to connect to the NAS storage according to the screenshots listed in the link below.

  http://www.tintri.com/blog/2011/11/connecting-vSphere-to-NFS-the-easy-way/

  But, I saw different configurations in the past where port dedicated VMkernel is assigned to NAS and all storage goes into network 10 G. I try to do the same and created a VMkernel for NAS port. But I don't think that traffic is going over there as it is not used at all.

  I gave the IP address of the ESXi server on the NAS box to get access. I couldn't give address IP VMkernel sideways NAS. How can I make use of this IP VMKernel dedicated NFS storage?

  I want to implement the best way to pass NAS 10 G network traffic. In addition, How can I test if storage traffic crosses VMkernel port?

  Suggestions needed.

  Virtualinfra is right that you must use a different subnet for NFS traffic. You masked the IP range, so I don't see what you use, but make sure that the vmkernel and storage using a single subnet, not the management subnet. If you get an error, your use of a subnet that goes out the default gateway of the management port, or that you are using the same subnet.

  I wrote a few articles on the use of NFS with vSphere: http://wahlnetwork.com/2012/04/19/nfs-on-vsphere-a-few-misconceptions/

  Also, make sure that the vmnic can route traffic on that subnet, as in the case of the use of VLANs.

• Two servers vCenter and shared storage

  Hi all

  Is it possible to have two vCenter environment, vCenter 5.1 and 5.5 vCenter and each vcenter has two esxi hosts to vCenter 5.1 a 5.1 host esxi and vCenter 5.5 has esxi hosts.

  All four hosts to access the same shared storage (SAN).

  VCenter hosts different access to the shared storage will damage the virtual machines on storage?

  Thank you...

  Essentially access a data store from multiple hosts that are running different versions. However, in the case of these hosts are not managed by the same server vCenter Server, it is your responsibility to ensure that guests will not access the same VMs (records) system and maximum supported are not outdated storage vMotion tasks, for example simultaneous for a data store...

  Also don't forget that functions like the control of storage i/o may not work as expected.

  André

• vCenter virtual appliance Installation on shared storage

  Hello

  I'll start testing virtualization soon, and for storage, I'll use a Synology NAS DS212j. My goal is to create a cluster with two servers ESXi, with the virtual machines stored on the NAS.

  My question is should I plug my nas iSCSI on my ESXi and then deploy the model to the OVA of the appliance virtual vcenter or deploy the eggs on the physical storage of one of my ESXi and then I try it moved to the shared storage?

  I'm not sure if my question is simple, but thank you for your answer!

  C. N.

  Happy, I can help you

  You must configure the iSCSI conifguration for each host, Yes.

  But the second and all other guests later then analyze the map iSCSI and see the VMFS data store that you created with the first host and set up automatically.

  You don't need to add each host in the cluster even if. You only do that when you want to use functions such as HA and DRS on the hosts within the cluster.

  Tim

• Reference Dell VRTX Drive Configuration

  I'm trying to configure a Dell VRTX to 3 blades with R2 2012 Windows failover

  I followed the instructions from Dell to create a Quorum disk (RAID 1) and a shared disk of the cluster (CSV) - Raid 50.

  The issue is, in each Windows host, Disk Manager sees each virtual disk twice.

  What did I miss?

  

  I answered my own question.

  The Microsoft MPIO's feature must be installed as well

• VMware Vsphere and DELL VRTX!

  Hello

  I have a Dell VRTX with Poweredge M520 2

  I want to know what version of Esxi is supported on my VRTX!

  I heard that Esxi 5.1 is supported and with 5.5 you can do, but you may encounter some problems with the storage

  Thank you!

  Just look for the appropriate search systems/server keyword.

  The Dell PE M520 is supported with ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 as well:

  

  See details here (the drop down menu includes all supported versions of ESXi):

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=Server&ProductID=39470&deviceCategory=server&details=1&keyword=M520&page=1&display_interval=10&SortColumn=partner&SortOrder=ASC

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=Server&ProductID=39491&deviceCategory=server&details=1&keyword=M520&page=1&display_interval=10&SortColumn=partner&SortOrder=ASC

• vSphere high availability with no shared storage? And general problems with VMware partner supplier

  
  HA can function without shared storage?

  It may not by the availability of vSphere manual.  However the global VMware partner who sold me on VMware solution said that the shared storage is not required for HA.

  This is the same guy who told me that I would not need to buy Windows Server licenses because everything was included in the package (vSphere Essentials Plus).  Now, I have no Windows license, no shared storage and a customer who will not be happy that we did not include these costs in the citation for this project.

  HA can function without shared storage?

  No.... you need a storage shared for HA.

  This is the same guy who told me that I would not need to buy Windows Server licenses because everything was included in the package (vSphere Essentials Plus).  Now, I have no Windows license, no shared storage and a customer who will not be happy that we did not include these costs in the citation for this project.

  Maybe your partner speak the vCenter Server Appliance that is included on vSphere Essentials Plus and you can use this device to manage your vSphere, ESXi without need a VM of Windows (with Windows license) to install the vCenter server.

• Cannot add host to vCenter server as data store is shared with an existing host to vCenter

  Recently, I removed a physical host to a virtual appliance of vCenter Server and am not able to add it to vCenter Server because I get an error message on the existing data store.  I run a simple server vCenter environment with two physical hosts and shared storage.  I've only been administering vCenter for a few months, so I'm relatively new on the technology and processes.  I searched the Internet for a few days now, but have not found documentation everyone has the same problem I have (which I find strange considering the simplicity my problem and configuration), so I tried to get help from the community of VMware.

  I received an error message a day this vCenter Server cannot connect to either of the two hosts so I removed the host (rather than disconnect and plug as I should have done).  Now, I am not able to connect to the host to vCenter server because the shared storage data store comes into conflict with the same data store used by the host in vCenter Server.  I get the error message is ' "Datastore"datastore_name"is in conflict with a store of data that exists in the data center which has the same URL (ds: / / / vmfs/volumes/UUID /), but is supported by different physical storage." "  I try to remove the host data store, but get the following error message: "resource" data store name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: UUID' is in use. ".  The error stack said: "'HostStorageSystem.UnmountVmfsVolume' call failed for object 'storage system' on ESXi"IP address"."  Cannot unmount volume ' data store name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: 'UUID' because the file system is busy. Correct the problem and retry the operation. "I tried to delete all virtual machines of the inventory, put the hosts in maintenance mode, restart physical hosts, but none of my troubleshooting contributes.

  I don't know what steps to take to get this data store driving with the host so that I can add it in vCenter Server.  You can provide me with any help is appreciated.

  Good thing you already moved the VMs on.  For what is 'disconnect', 'remove' or 'delete' might work anyway.  You should maybe put the host in maintenance mode or even reboot the host before you can remove data warehouses.  In an extreme case, I even had to remove the host and the hypervisor installed completely rebuild on the spot.  It is not that difficult or does not take long to reinstall, so be not afraid on this subject.  A clean reinstall could still save time compared to the deletion of data warehouses.

• Explanation of Shared Storage [newbie]

  I am new to the storage and vSphere, but I did some reading and I worked my way through of vSphere well enough.

  However, I'm confused about something in the vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-51-storage-guide.pdf.

  It is said

  Network storage devices are shared. Data warehouses on accessible network storage devices by multiple
  guests at the same time.

  I'm not sure understand it.  If I understand well, SAN storage, if one of my ESXi hosts is connected to a SAN (LUN?) device, it is identical to a disk that is attached to the host phycially, i.e. host a level block on this device/disk io control.  How that benefit then?  It would not cause corruption of data to have two hosts with access at ground level to block for a given device?

  chadmichael wrote:

  How that benefit then?  It would not cause corruption of data to have two hosts with access at ground level to block for a given device?

  For most of the file systems and operating systems, which would be true.  However, some file systems / cluster systems are equipped with this type of multiple access in mind and fight against the corruption of the type you think with clever use of interlocks, etc.

  VMFS and ESXi/vSphere is one of these combinations.  VMFS is designed as a clustered file system and can manage many hosts, access to a volume.