File server data - of RDM Volumes or VMFS?

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• Support of file server data store Provisioning

  I build a Win2012R2 file server.

  Datastore1 = 800 GB

  Datastore2 = 12 to

  Datastore1 is taken. Datastore2 will have about 2 TB of space used for storage of copies of virtual machines. The rest is for file server.

  What provision is recommended to use for a growing file server? Thick or thin?

  Is it OK to grant MORE than Datastore2 space?

  If other data on Datastore2 (other than the file server) begin to develop how the file server will make up the difference?

  Thanks in advance.

  Unless any 3rd third-party tool can do it, you must re - initialize the disk system. In addition to this, you will need to edit the virtual machine boot options and change the firmware of the BIOS to EFI boot. Another option is to shrink the partition from the current system of the customer for example 100 GB and then create a second partition with a GPT partition table.

  Please keep in mind that backup and - most importantly - recover from these large partitions consume considerable time, and it may be useful to plan several smaller if possible partitions.

  André

• ESXi5: File server: 8TB iSCSI LUN

  I'll put up an ESXi5 and plan to host my server files on it. The file server uses storing a Raid6 NAS available on iSCSI (with MPIO).

  The server storage is about 8 TB, which will be shared via a Windows 2008R2 Guest VM.

  Now I need to find the best options to expose the storage for Windows.

  Looks like my options are:

  -Use VMFS on iSCSI and vmdk files ordinary LUN.

  -Use RDM (do not know if it works with iSCSI) and provide a RAW disk to the vm file server.

  -Use of iSCSI directly from the Windows VM (can cause a high CPU utilization), prove less effective.

  The most common and options of would apply we would be the first option, however I would be worried to have my WHOLE being in a single VMDK file file server (or several)? If it gets corrupted, I would I lose its content business? Is this something that happens? Especially since this is managed ethernet (iSCSI)?

  Really this all come down to: vmdk is safe, and is there a way to get it back where the vmdk file is corrupt (in the same case).

  Additional info:

  I didn't need the partition of data to be snapshoted if I snapshot files server.

  Thank you!

  I mounted the iscsi Target inside the bone of the VM. Works very well. I also have a secondary backup iscsi NAS for increased security outside (even RAID 6 is not flawless) and I do weekly backups of my virtual machines to a different data store. Storage of the user in a vmdk files is a bad choice. If all this is corrupt (or just the OS) you will have a hard time to retrieve data from a VMFS partition. There are very few options to read under Windows or Linux. Better safe than sorry

  Concerning

  Tony

• File server virtualization (5 TB)

  Hi all. Need your suggestions kindly again. This is our file server virtualization.

  SE Win2003, C: 60 GB (local RAID, OS), D: 1 TB (600 GB used, EMC CX3-40), E: 5 TB (used 0, EMC CX4-240)

  We are working on ESX 4.0

  I wonder about:

  1. it seems that P2V will take several hours. Can I virtualize system C drive and "join" drive D/E (they are meta LUN) of the virtual machine without loose data?

  2 and if I can, it will change the way in which my work of cluser ESX?

  2 ESX is supported by a larger than 5 TB virtual disk?

  Any suggestion and discussion will be appreciated!

  Yes, you can create directly connect as meta lun via Raw Disk Mapping (RDM) however the maximum size of the LUN is only 2 TB. The only way to do is to create multiple VMDK and stripped then upwards to the level of the BONE as a 5 to.

  Please note that you will need to format the VMFS with the maximum block size to enjoy 2 TB VMDK. Size Max if VMFS is 2 TB - 512 KB. So, it is not suggested to strip your VMFS but have VMDK in VMFS and strip only at the level of the BONE. messy, but one of the few ways to do it.

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• Creating a virtual file server on ESXi. Limit of 2 TB will be a problem?

  Hello

  I'm planning to virtualize a couple of my servers, but some have

  questions about the size limit of 2 TB for volumes on ESXi. I guess that let

  me tell you what I want to do and you would be grateful if you can tell me

  If it's possible or not, and if yes, what is the best way to implement.

  I'm new to VM is so patient with me if I do not use terminology

  correctly.

  I want to virtualize my file server. For now, it is a physical

  Server that connects to an iSCSI SAN (Dell PowerVault MD3000i) network, and the

  LUNS assigned to it is about 5 TBs. To be more precise, the server has a

  F: drive, which is a volume of 5 TB on the SAN. This disc has an action

  This is useful to our main file server.

  I wonder if I create a computer virtual on ESXi server, can I attach this same

  Volume 5 to for this virtual machine in the same way I have such that it is connected to the physical

  box (if the virtual machine will have the same drive F:, which is actually the 5 TB

  LUN on the SAN)? This new virtual machine would replace the old physical box, if

  they would not both connected at the same time, in case that

  questions. I know it of just the 2 TB limit, but is it just for

  data warehouses? Which means, I have no need of virtual on files

  This volume, they will be on local storage, I want just the virtual machine itself

  have this volume mounted as a drive inside the BONE, so it acts as a

  file server (I hope I explained this right). Is this possible, or

  always do in the 2 TB limit in this case?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Josh

  The 2 TB limit reference itself VMFS partitions.  What you want to do is possible and the road ahead

• The Windows VM file server storage configuration options

  Hi all

  I have a Setup home of ESXi 3.5 running on an Adaptec 5805 with 3 x Western Digital 1 TB of drives in raid 5.  I plan on a number of virtual machines running on VMFS using virtual disks ranging from 10 to 20 GB.  Most of the storage is for the volume of a windows VM file server storage, somewhere around 1.5 to the mark.  Additional physical disks added to the Adaptec 5805 will be added for file server storage.  At least that's what I want to achieve

  My question is, what is the best option to add the windows VM storage file server because the VMs and storage are all on the same table?

  1. a large VMFS volume, add a virtual as extra storage space 1.5 TB drive to the VM file server and use scopes when you add additional physical disks in the array

  2. a single 300 GB partition on the table in the VMFS datastore for virtual machines, a score of 1.5 TB on the table in the VMFS datastore for storage file server disk.  Use scopes on the 1.5 TB data store when adding additional physical disks

  3. a single 300 GB partition on the table in the data store additional VMFS for VMs. the rest of the dashboard accessible from Raw Device Mapping for the 'normal' when you add storage of file server and extented with methods of expansion array physical disks

  4. something else non of the above makes no sense or it is technically impossible.

  Thank you very much for your time.

  Jon

  Hi Jon "Best" depends on what you want to accomplish, all 3 of your options 'will work '...

  1 & 2 gives you the flexibility to create files VMDK as space and allocation to different virtual machines, if you need to. So for your 1.5 to sample, you can decide you want 500 GB to go to VM1, VM2 250, etc. etc. Option #3 devoted himself primarily to the 1.5 TB on a virtual computer, whatever we have mapped ROW (the ROW will include the entire disk and outside the cluster configurations is only usable by a virtual machine).

  When you create a VMFS partition, you can choose the size of the block that fits your needs. For a 1.5 to drive you choose 8 MB so that you could create a VMDK file as large as the disc if you wanted (8 MB would give you an upper limit of 2 TB).

  Extensions will allow you to spend a single data store by adding disks, however another approach when adding drives is to create additional data store, and then create the VMDK files and link them in virtual machines as necessary (find yourself with "multiple" readers in the virtual machine).

• Planning of a file server

  Hi guys,.

  I plan on building a file server on my 5.1 ESXi and just want to make sure I'm the right path. Hope you can give me a counselor here.

  ESXi:

  5.1 (build 799733)

  2 x Intel Xeon E5606

  Supermicro X8DT3 Council

  48 GB OF RAM

  QLogic QLE4062C

  Virtual machine:

  Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

  8 vCPU

  4096 MB RAM

  stored at DAS RAID6

  Data (files Office, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) is located in an iSCSI SAN. There is only one target connected to the ESXi host with LUN 12 (50 GB smaller, more 650 GB). The volumes are attached to the virtual machine as pRDM.

  What is a good way to do this? Or would you recommend me differently?

  If you need more information, please let me know.

  Thanks in advance!

  Welcome to the community - I don't think you'll need 8 vCPUs ofr your VM - I would start with 1 or 2 at most - any other looks good.

• ESXi5 + iSCSI NAS with MPIO, fairly reliable for file server?

  I look at the different options to learn where to run a file server. The most logical choice would be to run a Windows Server 2008R2 in an ESX host using the esx storage, however the esx use accesed by iSCSI NAS storage. I'm worried about losing files due to corruption of either the VMFS or VM-file, this could happen with any type of storage, but the fact that the system of whole files be stored in a single VMdisk care.

  I have a few other options, such as:

  (1) host the files directly on the NAS Server (it is supported)

  (2) set up a number of logic of the NAS unit directly in the comments of Windows Server (avoiding the use of a VM disk)

  The approach let ESXi dealing with iSCSI would be more integrated, but I will be more at risk? If something happens to the VMdisk I would lose all the files it contains, it is probably something (power loss, iscsi network failure?), are there any tools to recover a corrupted vmdisk?

  Thank you

  You'll be fine using an iSCSI LUN in ESX.  Your NAS device should be the biggest concern (if you lose the storage, you would lose any protocol any way).  Just make sure that it is a business device.  You could also potentially use NFS from your NAS device (if supported).  As with any environment, make sure that you back up!  You will not be at risk using iSCSI as an RDM.

• Virtualize a 2 TB file server

  Good day to all

  I was task to virtualize a 2 TB file server. Currently, this server is integrated into a system of Workflow (AWD), I have the following.

  Users: 350 + of a thick Client Server access. 500 + users access the file from a web interface.

  Systems: I have 7 + server to create files images per minute.

  Can someone help or guide me in the right direction on best practices

  But the data is already on a SAN?

  In this case, if the logic unit number is less than 2 TB - 512b, you can do a P2V to the system disk and then attach the data than a RDM disk.

  André

• A file server virtualization: best practices

  Hello world

  I have to virtualize a file server in a virtual machine on a host ESX 3.5, here's the scenario:

  The file server uses a unit number logic on the SAN for file sharing.

  The ESX Server has access to the same San.

  The filer LUN is great, something like 6-700 GB

  I am thinking about what is the best way to do so, in particular I wanted to use the FC fabric to pass all the data instead of using the network, I thought to turn only the operating system of the ESX host and leaves on the partition e: (i.e. the unit number logic on the drive in the SAN array) and then... I don't know what is the best here.

  I have never use RDM, but I think I can not join a unit number logic physical to a virtual machine unless the logic unit number is empty, in my case it is of course full of data so I don't know if I can do that without risking my files.

  I thought also if there is a way to map a vmdk remaining virtual infrastructure as a disk on the file server so that I could create a hard vacuum map it on the file server, copy all the data from e: to, say, x (x: would be the hard file mapped to the file server); in this way, all traffic would be reduced on the fiber channel.

  I think you understood my needs. Most of the time I use the LAN infrastructure to my p2v and I was always quite happy about it, but I would really like a way to speed up the process in this scenario because of the amount of data and with a sound of fabric fibre channel as a very attractive option.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  RDM is a very simple thing. ESX will not touch any bit on MON except VM said so, all fixed access to LUNS on VM, ESX works as only disk controller.

  So, if you attach formatted NTFS for Windows VM - VM LUN he sees as a drive SCSI with NTFS full of files. That's all.

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• Windows server 2012 file server slow speed

  Dear all,

  I use Windows server 2012 as a server file only with 64 GB RAM and 16-core intel Xeon and size of shared file is only 800 GB. problem is that after a few rate of file transfer from client to server got time slowing down as below.

  copy data between client to server transfer rate are ok (60 MB/s)

  copy data between transfer of client server are low (200 Kb/s)

  whenever I rebooted the file server, it worked super fast, but after a few hours I get this question with transfer rate.

  can someone help me with this regard.

  Noor Uz Zaman

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• about 700 cases being removed from file server withour permission (2003)

  Hello

  We had a problem with the files being removed from our file server.

  We lost about 700 files in about 40 directories since the date codes of file between 30 November 2014 and December 3, 2014. All files before this date do not have touch.

  Our backup 1 December had all the files. Our backup 5 December have only files before September 1, 2014 and after December 3, 2014.

  My question is how can this happen without going into each directory and sorted my date of cade and Marvel files for this date range.

  Matter that has any other ideals on how this could happen?

  Thank you

  Bert

  Bert

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site and must be placed on Technet or MSDN

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home

  http://social.msdn.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home

• Windows Server 2003 R2 vs. 2008 R2 vs. 2012 as a file server

  I use Windows Server 2003 R2. We have about 100 PCs that are connected to this server and using the network connection. We are planning to upgrade to the latest version. While I was looking for the comparison between Windows Server 2003 R2, R2 2008 and 2012.

  All items talk about new features like Hyper-V, Hyper v Replica, Active Directory, IIS etc. But I'm not using one of these. I mainly use it as a file server. So, I need to know the comparison of features related to it.

  How are the 3 versions different server?

  I heard that data deduplication is main feture of windows server 2012.Does it only reduce the file size when it is in drive? Or he gets advantage for network traffic when he copied the complete network of another way? Fact that these data are supported in windows XP in network

  Hello

  Support for Windows Server is not provided in these forums. On the other hand, it please repost your question in the relevant Microsoft TechNet forum here:

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/windowsserver .

  Thank you.      :)

• chkdisk-type of file system is NTFS, the volume is dirty, what it means

  When I turn on my computer, I see the following: file system to check on C: the type of the file system is NTFS, the volume is dirty.  What does that mean?

  A volume can be marked as dirty, if the system underwent a power interruption (power failure, pulling plug, removing the battery, button / stop), abandoned restart or an abnormal termination.  One of these events?

  When XP starts, it automatically checks the bit of impurity on each volume.  You can also tell XP to ignore the bit of impurity on any volume, but this probably isn't a good idea in case there is a real problem that needs to be fixed.  If you have a hard drive where the dirty bit will not be deleted, you could tell XP to check everything just do not.

  If the starting XP detects the volume is dirty, it will automatically run the disk with error correction (chkdsk/p) check and try to fix the problems detected.

  You can check the status of your bit of impurity from a command prompt window.

  To do this, click Start, run and enter in the box:

  cmd

  Click OK to open a command prompt window.

  For example, to query the bit of impurity on drive C, type:

  fsutil dirty query C:

  The sample output:
  Volume c is dirty
  Volume C: is dirty

  You cannot use fsutil or chkntfs from a command prompt to delete the bit of impurity on a volume.

  This does not mean that a disk check is scheduled to run, and you can't cancel what needs to happen in this case because this isn't the problem.

  You also won't solve this problem by editing your registry database - not where is the problem.

  Once a volume is marked as dirty, the only way to clear the dirty bit is to run "chkdsk/r" or "chkdsk/p" when the volume is not in use.  The only way a volume can not be used while XP is just starting to load or from the XP Recovery Console.

  If XP will not run chkdsk correctly when your system restarts or the dirty bit will not erase as it should, you need to look in the Event Viewer log chkdsk and see what is happening and fix it.

  If XP will not always clear the dirty bit, you need to run chkdsk/r of the XP Recovery Console so you can look and see what works and run it again until it works.  If your hard drive fails, you may never be able to clear the dirty bit, in this case, you can also say XP never check the afflicted volume dirty bit.

  Saying XP not to check the bit of impurity on a volume would be risky behavior because there would always be some kind of problem with your hard drive.

  When chkdsk runs automatically restart either because XP thinks he needs to (perhaps your NTFS volume has been marked as dirty) or you have chosen to do the chkdsk command yourself, the results appear in the viewing Application event log.  You should look there for the chkdsk log to see what happened and no problems after running chkdsk.

  To view the logs in Event Viewer, click Start, settings, Control Panel, administrative tools, event viewer.

  A shortcut to the event viewer is to click on start, run and enter in the box:

  %SystemRoot%\system32\eventvwr.msc

  Click OK to launch the event viewer.

  Search the Application log for an event originally by Winlogon, something like:

  Event type: Information
  Event source: Winlogon
  Event category: no
  Event ID: 1001
  Date: 04/08/2010
  Time: 11:25:57
  Description:
  Checking file system on C:

  The type of the file system is NTFS.

  One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
  may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
  that you continue.

  Windows will now check the disk.

  Cleaning of minor inconsistencies on the drive.
  CHKDSK checks Usn Journal...
  Audit of the USN Journal is complete.

  39070048 KB total disk space.
  28017948 KB in 100571 files.
  56540 Ko 10556 index.
  0 KB in bad sectors.
  236440 KB in use by the system.
  65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  10759120 KB available on disk.

  4 096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  9767512 total allocation on the drive units.
  2689780 allocation units available on disk.

  Windows has finished checking your disk.
  Please wait while your computer restarts.

  The dirty bit fade not until chkdsk /r (or chkdsk/p) tracks clean when the system reboots (as in the example) or when you run chkdsk /r from the XP Recovery Console.

  If for some reason chkdsk will not erase the dirty, you say XP never check the bit of impurity of a player, but that will not set your fault of potentially hard drive, or he could be the player just needs have chkdsk to run on it for some other recoverable error condition.

  A simple power interruption is something that could result in a disc was marked as dirty.

  The event log is where you need to look to see what to do about it.

• (Redirected) Hard for 3 Server, (2 as an area) and 1 as a file server

  Hello everyone

  can anyone suggest me Server - 70 user hardware

  I need 2 Server (all of them to the field)

  CPU? How many

  RAM? How many

  hard drive? How many

  What else?

  (2) 1 for file server

  RAM?

  2 TB volume size

  ???

  Thanks for the tips

  Best of this post in the Forum servers, here:

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/servers/default.aspx

  Bev.