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• Controller RAID HP and ESXi - em RAID HP Controladora e ESXi

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  Tenho um projeto em vista para servers virtualizacao na empresa wave trabalho.

  Para isso estou orcando um servidor DL380P G8 com uma controladora controller HP Smart Array P420i w/1 GB FBW, saber como validar gostaria to essa controladora powerful RAID com o ESXi 5.x, tive problemas com outros servidor o ESXi nao aceitava RAID por but that voce climbed chart os controladora o ESXi so enxergava o disco.

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  I have a project in mind for servers in virtualization at the company where I work.
  So I'm budgeting for a server DL380P G8 with a controller, controller HP Smart Array P420i w/1 GB FBW, I wonder how validate if this controller supports RAID with ESXi 5.x had problems with the other ESXi server did not accept that the RAID higher you climb the array controller in ESXi saw only the disc.

  Yes, this controller is fully supported - confirmed list HCL.

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=IO&ProductID=20949&deviceCategory=IO&partner=41&keyword=P420i&page=1&display_interval=10&SortColumn=partner&SortOrder=ASC

  Probably just the drivers installed on your host computer. You can download the latest VIBs here;

  http://vibsdepot.HP.com/

• Help Setup RAID SATA for ESXi 4.1

  Hello

  It is the first time that you try to use vmware.  Any help is greatly appreciate!

  I just built a server around the Intel s5500hcvr mother. I have 6 SATA HDD I want to set up in a RAID. The integrated RAID controller seems to be very limited and does not seem to be supported by ESXi 4.1 (when I run ESXi 4.1 installation and it asks for a location for installation, all my discs are individually listed instead of virtual drives that I created with the RAID controller)

  My questions:

  (1) what is the suggested configuration of HDD (RAID levels / number of berries) for ESXi 4.1?  Can I create 1 RAID 10 array and set everything up to that?  or take one of my disks and install esxi 4.1 on it and then create a RAID with the rest of my discs and use it to store data?

  (2) anyone can provide links to some SATA RAID controllers that are known to work with ESXi 4.1 (and is the supposed to recognize virtual readers created by the RAID controller setup ESXi 4.1)

  Your motherboard has a RAID controller software which, as you have discovered, is completely not taken in charge by ESX/ESXi... You will need to get a RAID controller that is on the HCL for SAS and SATA hard drives (not one with battery backup write cache) so you can use any type of RAID configuration.

  My preference for Internal RAID configurations (on the host) are two drives mirrored for ESX/ESXi to reside (preferably being SAS 10 k or 15 k RPM, 73 GB or 146 GB in size) and then another table for the data store. You'll want to keep the data slot store table 2 TB-512 b size in order to present to ESX/ESXi as a LUN. Or you will need to get a RAID card this split of the support to the top of the table in the smaller of the virtual drives that can be presented for ESX/ESXi and LUNS.

  Search for controllers using the LSI MegaRAID chip as a good first lap. Some Adaptec cards should work, but I've seen people post questions on those recent (more recent than in the past). MANY manufacturers rebrand/efficiency the LSI MegaRAID Controllers server, such as the Dell PERC 6 series cards.

  For the use of 4 disks SATA, RAID 10 (on a BBWC, fully supported, controller) will give you the best performance. It will compare with SAS drives however. IF you do not plan on any virtual machine running with anything beyond light IOPS / s then you should be ok (or with very light loads)... If this is going to be a production server, then get the SAS drives all around.

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• Driver RAID for Vmware ESXi 5.1 on Dell R420.

  My project is to install Vmware ESXi 5.1 on a Dell R420 with Raid1 configuration. The question I have after configuring raid1 in raid utility is created using the, I launch the installation of Vmware ESXi 5.1. What is ESXi 5.1 sees not the raid1 partition but rather see two disks as are they worn can't in raid1 configurations.

  I need to have this in raid1 config, can any who share an idea about my problem please or point me in the right direction.

  I did some research but nothing seems to help resolve this issue.

  Thank you

  Sheriff.

  Sorry for my previous response:

  DELL-Daniel My - when I boot in the BIOS of the controller, I see the raid in a raid1 configuration.

  Mgr dev you are right, I did research more when you all answered. I see the PERC S110 pilot was a software raid controller and thus the vmware esxi wouldn't work in a raid configuration 1 (software raid).

  Thank you guys for you answer and who helped me

• Size of the band to RAID servers with ESXi - RAID 10

  I know this has been asked several times, but I never saw no definitive answer to this question.

  In my raid controllers [8704EM2 LSI / LSI-8708EM2] I can set the size of the band to get the size of band chosen by multiplying this with the amount of discs.

  VMFS5 uses a block size of 1 MB, so with my configuration of 4 disks, I need the size of my band to 256 KB, for my 8 disks it is 128 KB.

  When I create a new virtual machine I would use the eager willingness to zero thickness to avoid fragmentation in the data store, I think that that would be the optimal situation with regard to the data store?

  [Linux] operating system in the virtual machine that would result in this theory?

  Advice or comments?

  I've never seen any definitive answer to this question.

  Probably because there is no definitive answer to this question.

  In my raid controllers [8704EM2 LSI / LSI-8708EM2]

  You can gain more performance when you switch your controller/sata 3 Gbit/s old sata/6gbit one.

  VMFS5 uses a block size of 1 MB

  True, but vmfs5 also uses the subblocks of 8 KB. In addition, very small files)<1kB) can="" be="" stored="" in="">

  I would use the eager willingness to zero thickness to avoid fragmentation within the data store

  Where do you have idea * that * avoids fragmentation?

  I think that this would be the optimal situation with regard to the data store?

  I don't think this is not optimal, and I'm not sure that there is generally best value. Affecting the band of equal size block size vmfs5 maybe not the best option, because it is small enough. In addition, there are other things you should consider, i.e.:

  -sector size of the hard disk (usually 512b or 4 KB)

  -ssd read/erase (highly specific to the provider) block size

  -Sectoral block size / filesystem VM (depending on the operating system)

  -In charge of VM file system (depends on what your VM)

  -the edge of your raid controller cache size

  -type of raid-array (0,1,10,5,6,...)

  -etc, etc.

  IMHO, if you don't have time to test, just stick with the default. With blind shooting you can just make things worse...

• Network/raid performance on ESXi 5

  I'm a newbie VMWare test performance using 5 ESXi (free) to see if VMWare will be a satisfactory solution.  The thin hypervisor runs on a years 4u Dell with Xeons @2.66 8, 32 G ram, ethernet ports 4 gigabit ports (currently connected to ports on a cisco switch - they don't have to share their bandwidth with other machines) and 4 drives in RAID5 (450 GB).  I have 4 CentOS5 virtual machines running at the same time and I'm trying to measure the bandwidth of file transfers.  Each of the virtual machines VMware tools installed and use the 3 VMXNET network adapter.  The VMs and VMkernel are currently attached to a vswitch that is connected to an etherchannel (hash IP) two of the gig ethernet ports.  The main questions are:

  • establishing an ssh connection to a virtual computer takes about 15 + / 4 seconds of "Do you want to trust in this regard" at the password prompt
  • file transfer (scp) between the two machines is consistently 11.5 + / 1 MB/s.  This is true for the transfer of files between the virtual machines hosted on this box or any of the virtual machines and any other device on the subnet.

  Any other relevant information:

  • pings between two virtual machines: first ping about 1.4 ms and all the 0.4 Ms
  • pings between VM and another server: first ping about 2 ms and every 1 ms
  • Each virtual machine and the vmkernel use DHCP
  • There no lag once sshed in a virtual machine
  • The data store is about 1/4 full.
  • All virtual machines are thinly provisioned.
  • execution of SSH on Port IP VMkernel is instantaneous from other servers and takes about 2 seconds of a virtual machine.
  • In addition to my manual tests, there is no other traffic on the network and CPU usage and disk are minimal
  • a scp pushing a file to the virtual machine to the VMkernel quickly established, but a scp a file from the VM to the VMkernel traction expires entirely
  • While scping a single file between two virtual machines, the CPU usage goes to 75% on one heart.  All other seem unchanged.
  • hdparm - Tt/dev/sda tells me that my maximum reading speed on the RAID5 array is around 200 MB/s.  Even including the overhead associated with reading blocks and then write them on the same unit, the drive speed is probably not the bottleneck for the speeds of the scp.
  • However, cping a single large in a virtual machine file goes to about 30 MB/s - considerably less than 50% of the response of hdparm (what I was waiting for the operating system to completely load the file into RAM, wait a seektime, then réécrirait in a contiguous block), but still well above the reported by scp transfer speed.

  Thoughts:

  11.5 Mbps is strangely close to 100 Mbps - is there an artificial constraint on the free version of ESXi do max on all network connections to 100 Mbps?

  If the transfer is limited by the CPU, which seems ridiculous.  A single 2.66 Xeon is barely able to administer a file transfer of 12 MB/s via the ssl Protocol?

  Resources or ideas are welcome.  Thank you, all.

  Good job digging around.

  Number of things (IMO):

  -File copy tests should not be used to test the performance of the storage subsystem.  Launch Windows 2003/2008 1-2 VMs and get IOMeter running.  It is a sure way to put crab on your drives.  The problem with the copy of file is that there is a lot of overhead involved (CIFS, TCP/IP, file systems), IOmeter bypasses all this (except the file system) and gives you a gross rate.  Your hdparm is a good indication of good performance.

  -scp uses a lot of CPU, it's a way slow (but safe & convenient) to transfer files.

  -You look good pings, ARP can take 500-1500 ms to make a difference

  -Re: your slow ssh connections, try disabling DNS lookups that are reversed in your/etc/ssh/sshd_config (')UseDNS no')

  Ben

• is it possible to expand a raid 10 on ESXi?

  Hello

  I would like to know if it is possible to extend RAID 10 on EXSi Server (local storage).

  Example:

  ESX storage is on 6x146GB in Raid 10.

  Can transparent add 2x146GB readers or maybe even 2x300GB

  Thank you.

  Michael.

  RAID configurations are based on the material, just check your RAID if its able to detect new hard drives and adds controller RAID existing installation, thereafter it would just a reconstruction of the RAID at incorporates additional disks and subsequently in ESXi server the size of the data store is also increased.

  Kind regards

  Nikhil

• Reference Dell 6850 don't RAID not installation

  Hello world

  hope you might me able to help me, I recently acquired a dell server 6850, she has 1 x 73 GB scsi.

  How to configure the computer bios so that she sees as a normal non-raid drive... This is not a production server just to test...

  Once I have the bios set up, I guess that the Server 2008 r2 installation disk won't always see the drive and I have to load a driver... one that... because I think I've tried all the... a little at my wits end with it.

  Just FYI, I am an experienced windows user and know my way around server operating system, but this is the first time I played with the server... its been quite a :) steep learning curve

  Thank you very much

  John

  Hello

  If the optional components to enable the RAID feature are installed there should be an option in the system for embedded RAID controller BIOS. You can set this option in SCSI mode. Who will set the controller to operate as SCSI controller without RAID functionality.

  The controller will use different drivers of the operating system and be detected by the operating system, differently depending on how it is. It will be presented as a PERC RAID mode. If the SCSI mode it will be presented as a SCSI controller. If you go to the download page for the 6850 and change the operating system to 2008R2, he will present what drivers are available for this OS. The section SCSI RAID a PERC drivers for 2008R2, but I do not show a SCSI driver in the section non RAID SCSI. 2008R2 should have a generic SCSI driver built into the taxi driver.

  Thank you

• I don't know where this esxi installed

  How will I know the hard disk where to install ESXi 5.1? (I have 5 hard drives on the server without disks matrix). I used the following and not good: Greetings 'df - h' or 'fdisk-l '!

  GUI help you identify the HARD drive where ESXi is installed.

  • Connect the ESXi server via vSphere Client
  • Select Configuration > storage > devices (not Datatores)
  • If you select disk OS installed in the device Info pane, there will be a lot of primary partitions as legacy MBR, diagnosis of VMware, etc..,.
  • If you select other discs, there will be no partition

  Hope it helps you, what you are looking for.

• Configurar como 2 don't redes distintas no ESXi?

  OLA amigos,

  Alguem sabe aqui como configurar no owner ESXi 4 uma but not rede? Explico: na minha empresa tenho 2 redes: uma INTERNA e outra DMZ.

  Tenho um novo servidor da Dell com 4 interfaces of redes, I can not configurar uma segunda interface com IP dismantle mas!

  Alguem Poderia me help? (segue na. msg uma imagem da tela como exemplo)

  Voce tentou through do VIClient?

  Para download o Viclient digita no browser web https://IP_do_ESX

  Download of Faca.

  Senha o connection com o usuario e Faca ESX

  Em configuration > Networking você pode criar suas redes destintas com but recovering.

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• I'm DONE with RAID on board. What is a good card?

  RAID on board is useless, why do they even bother with it? I'm simply using two WD RE3 1 TB for active RAID0 (Yes, I back up!). I would add a third disk to RAID5 in the future.

  I found that Areca: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131003

  For a little less than $300, it's like kosher, or is there a better option?

  In this price range, it is very good. It looks like a good buy, but as always, you get what you pay for. If the budget was higher, I prefer the 1880.

• Problem of ESXi 5.5 and RAID

  So I have an ESXi host and RAID problem with a motherboard for Intel Server S1200V3RP. Basically, the problem is that the 5.5 ESXi host is not recognizing the RAID array set up with the utility integrated. See the images below for what I mean.
  
  

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  I did some research and my research has pointed out to me the possibility that this on the Intel Server raid controller is not actually a hardware controller but a piece of software built using the computer as controller. My research basically tells me that ESXi is super picky and don't play well with fake RAID. Although I may be wrong on this subject the behaviour of ESXi and each site Web I found says that this may be the case. I tried integrating storage and RAID drivers in the iso ESXi, I tried to update the BIOS chipset with the deployment server disk, and the management and I tried a USB installation with the drivers but nothing seems to solve this problem.

  Since ESXi does not the table as something other than dedicated disks, I tried an inventive work around by choosing the AHCI BIOS and install ESXi 5.5 mode host on a dedicated disk (volume 0). Then I switched back to RAID and used the Intel Rapid Storage Management utility to configure a RAID5 to three remaining disks. It seems to work very well and I was able to access the vsphere ESXi environment. However I couldn't see the RAID volume again on vsphere storage.

  I've plotted a plan where I could load the drives as individual data on the host and virtual server stores use the disk management utility or another program for RAID 3 hard drives together so that they appear as a single volume. However when I booted the system upward it appeared that the integrity of the RAID5 degraded after the addition of each drive separately (probably because he had to load a VMFS on each disc, thereby breaking the table). So this probably won't work (and even if it's possible, it's probably unnecessarily complex).

  
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  So yes, I don't have really a clear idea of the place where to go to get the RAID controller integrated to be read by ESXi. I was told that there may be compatibility issues between VMware and my Intel server model, but I checked and its on its list of approved so compatibility it couldn't be her. I guess I could just stick with dedicated drives and load the HARD drives as data stores, and then use software RAID across virtual machines - but I am concerned about the way in which redundancy will include when we drive finally fails (could I just Exchange on as a hardware raid?). I always thought that software RAID (especially on windows server disk management) smb read and write speed is terrible compared to hardware RAID.

  Anyone know a solution to this problem or where I could go from here?

  I did some research and my research has pointed out to me the possibility that this on the Intel Server raid controller is not actually a hardware controller but a piece of software built using the computer as controller. My research basically tells me that ESXi is super picky and don't play well with fake RAID.

  ESXi is not 'super picky' here. This kind of fake-RAIDs that are so common on desktop PC motherboards and entry-level rely on specific drivers provided by the hardware vendor to work really. And suppliers basically only provide Windows drivers in the first place. Any other non-OS Windows would be faced with the same question. Try installing a Linux and that you will not see your RAID volume either.

  Yes, your motherboard does not use a real independent of hardware RAID but a cheap RAID/fake-software controller. See the Intel website:

  http://Ark.Intel.com/products/71385/Intel-Server-Board-S1200V3RPS

  RST (0,1,10,5) RAID and ESRT2 (0,1,10) RAID Configuration software

• SuperMicro X7SPE-HF-D525 + ESXi 5 + RAID

  Hello

  OK, first of all, I know this isn't a Board supported. I managed to install and run ESXi 5 However, and I like it a lot so far.

  What I don't understand is get ESXi howto for installing on RAID mirroring on this motherboard, someone at - it RAID and ESXi to work?

  Thanks in advance!

  BR,

  Chris

  Riad must be hardware raid.

  software raid unsupported iirc.

• Need recommendation: A better card from PCI RAID to ESXi 3.5

  I'm trying to install VMWare ESXi 3.5 on an old Dell Poweredge 750 server, which has two available PCI slots.  I know that the integrated SATA does not work and I need to have 2 x 2 TB disks installed on it, but realize that there is a maximum size of 2 TB disk volumes, so I was going to make a RAID 1 configuration with a slightly smaller total capacity of 2 TB under the limit of ESXi.

  I tried with a map of 3Ware 8006, but although it recognizes my drives very well, ESXi doesn't like it (complains there is no disk to install to).  I then tried a SIL chipset cheap raid card that ESXi liked ok, but does not start at the start of.  I used the Adaptec PCI RAID cards before with great success, but I don't know if the old PCI cards to support drives of 2 TB on them.

  Does anyone have a recommendation for a PCI (not PCI-e) decent, inexpensive that will support ESXi 3.5 and SATA 2 x 2 TB disks?

  Thank you

  Myles

  Adaptec 2610 is PCI - X, which can be adapted to your PCI slot, but you must see if you have the space for the unused portion of the card PCI (X) to clear the components of the motherboard. PCI will be limited to 1.5 GB, so your big SATA drives will be slow. Unless you have the battery backup cache writing that read/write performance will be poor.

  You can view the HCL http://vmware.com/go/hcl

• RAID 1 &amp; ESXi help!

  I have raid 1 configured on my server ESXi ESXi installation, is to see both drives and we will settle at either, it is not my table as disk 1.

  Any ideas?  Using the Intel 82801ER/ICH5R for my raid chipset.

  ICH5R is a "fake RAID" feature which means that the RAID does not work without software drivers to perform RAID functions.  ESXi does not support false RAID devices, so you will need to use your ICH5R controller as controller without RAID JBOD functionality or go buy a real RAID controller.