Install ESX 3.5 with local storage

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• ESX host with local storage recommended for the host partition table?

  Hi all

  I know that the best practical partition table should look like this:

  Mount Point	Partition	Size	Description
  		/ dev/sda (primary)
  / Boot	ext3	250 MB	Change of extra space for upgrades
  N/A	SWAP	1 600 MB	Change the maximum size of Exchange service console
  /	ext3	5120 MB	Change of extra space in the root
  		/ dev/sda (Extended)
  / var	ext3	4096 MB	Create partition to avoid an overflow of root with log files
  / tmp	ext3	1024 MB	Create partition to avoid an overflow of root with temporary files
  / opt	ext3	2048 MB	Create partition to avoid overfilling root with the log files of VMware HA
  / Home	ext3	1024 MB	Create partition to avoid an overflow of root with agent / user files
  	vmkcore	100 MB	Pre-configured

  However with a system with local storage would you set it up the same way, and whatever it is must be amended to change to get ESX to write log files to the different partitions?  I would like to configure it for future expansion for when the enterprise package is configured.

  Yes, I would set up the same way with an ESX with local storage server and nothing needs to be changed for the vmekernel right at the partition/var - unless of course you want to write to a log server that you need to change a configuration file to point to the server logs.  If you talk to the ESX Enterprise license you willnot have to change partiition table-

  Also on something else if you don't have a SAN/NAS storage you will also need to create a VMFS partition on the local data store to host your virtual machines

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• with local storage vMotion

  What are my options to enable vMotion with local storage with vSphere 6.0? I have only 2 servers, so virtual SAN is not an option.

  Hello

  Unfortunately, Fault Tolerance requires shared storage. At this point, it is not possible to perform ft on local storage.

  Here is a practical guide.

  VSphere Documentation Centre

  See you soon,.

  Adil Arif

• It is possible and effective: high availability (failover) on 2 guests with local storage?

  Hello

  I have a discussion on the implementation of ha (failover) with 2 guests with local storage.

  My advice is to go with a shared storage. But there is another view, use the cluster failover MS with local storage service to save on the shared storage hardware.

  2 "mirorred" on each host machines. Is it feasible at all?

  The HughesNet: have 2 virtual machines (SQL server and server applications in a highly available environment). The workload of the machines will be raised to 2 very powerful servers that are supposed to be buying.

  1. Please briefly explain a feature of local storage to provide HA.

  2. I got to cluster in the virtual environment, not so I guess that the shared storage is used only in the virtual environment.

  Thank you.

  Michael.

  There is software that can replicate a running, physical or virtual machine to another accessible location on the network. This could be as simple that between two close hosted ESXi of VMS or high-speed WAN. Take a look at things like neverfail, doubletake others.  The costs would probably be a bit prohibitive in a smaller environment. It might be possible and maybe even practice to use a virtual storage device having a failover replication. Use of storage on each host and allows to provide the data store. Open-e

  The Microsoft Clustering solution needs a shared storage.

• HP ProLiant DL160 - cannot create the data with local storage (controller, no RAID) store

  Hi all. I appreciate your time and comments.

  Using VMware ESXi (initially), installation (VMware ESXi 5.5.0, 1331820) will very well (install on USB). Able to enter in the console of the vSphere Client, everything seems normal. Any attempt to use local storage, however, is filled with this error message: http://i.imgur.com/40ySsOS.png

  "It was not correct to specified parameters. Vim.Host.DiskPartitionInfo.spec"-" 'HostStorageSystem.ComputerDiskPartitionInfo' call for object 'storage system' on ESXi "< ip address >" failed. "

  I tried both the base (from VMware) installation disc and the "Custom" (HP) HP installation disk. Both have the same problem: all facilities, but local disks - as seen while - are not able to serve local storage. It worked very well (previous incarnation was as Server 2003 file server, no reported\noticed questions). It's not under warranty, its going to be used as a laboratory server. All this seems to work well.

  Specifics:

  HP DL160 G6

  Storage card: ICH10 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller

  Discs: 3 G MDL 500 GB 7200

  Controller and the disks are perceived by the system: http://i.imgur.com/3PAKQHL.png

  Can someone point me in the right direction on what to go here? Research on the error messages do not lead to a lot of help. I'll get more pending. I would be grateful.

  This could be a problem with the current data on the disk. I suggest clean you the partition info using the DD explained to the KB VMware: Troubleshooting in the add storage Wizard error: cannot read this disk partition information to see if that solves the problem.

  André

• View Load Balancing Hosts with local storage

  Hello

  After the use of VMWare for server virtualization, it is time to move to the next step.

  We are in the middle of a display driver 5 :-)

  At the moment I have 2 host vmware (esxi 5) with storage connected to a San.

  My "master VM" is in the SAN and connected to two hosts.

  A pool is created and data warehouses them are selected for the pool.

  The replicas are created on two local data stores when I set up the pool.

  At the time, my drivers 10 users working on a related Clone which is located on the local storage.

  The strange thing is that all users are running on a single host.

  East on the host with the most free space.

  When I remove the data store, the virtual machine is created on the other host.

  After adding it, are all the vm on the store with the largest disks again.

  How can I configure display to use the two hosts?

  This is a normal behavior of View Composer to put desktops on the storage the largest space available. You can change this behavior by adjusting storage approval settings. Take a look at this blogpost:

  http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/2011/02/09/VMware-view-4-5-rebalance/

• vSphere 6, impossible to use FT with local storage

  Hi guys,.

  Now that I understand that when you turn on FT without storage shared in any data warehouse results are displayed in dialog FT in the web client, I met a different problem (so the discussion topic).

  When I turn on FT for a virtual machine that is on the local storage, I'm now able to select data warehouses, but when I select the local storage for the secondary virtual machine, I get a lot of mistakes which tell me the secondary host cannot reach the .vmx file (of course - this is why I need shared storage - for these small files). Shouldn t FT copy the .vmx and all that has to be shared in the right place, because I said where it is? I need to move my VM to a shared storage, then move my VMDK and stuff for local storage manually?

  Here is a screenshot of the dialog box:

  

  Here are the current hardware configuration:

  ESX1:

  -IP: 192.168.220.51

  -Data warehouses: ESX1-LocalStorage and NFS

  ESX2:

  -IP: 192.168.220.52

  -Data warehouses: ESX2-LocalStorage and NFS

  My primary VM for FT is on ESX2 and try to get my high school on ESX1.

  Thank you!

  When I read about the new features of FT and it also replicates the storage, I also expect the ability to place FT VMs on non-shared storage. However, it seems that this is not an option (maybe in a later version, who knows).

  The vsphere availability Guide:

  Virtual Machine for the fault tolerance requirements

  ...

  • Virtual machines files should be stored on shared storage. Shared storage solutions include Fibre Channel, iSCSI (hardware and software), NFS and NAS.

  André

• Upgrading to ESX 4.0 host autonomous with local storage to ESXi 4.1 on a USB

  We have a stand-alone host with a single raid array that is local to the server at a remote site from ours.  The question of what I've done research, you need to reformat the raid array if you install ESXi 4.1 on this host.  Since there is no shared storage, the only option would be to copy the data from one server to another, or maybe install ESXi on a USB key.

  It seems to work fairly well in a test environment.  Are there warnings that I may have missed when I take a system that can be started locally on ESX 4.0 and change it to boot from a USB key with ESXi 4.1?  In my test environment, I know that you can not install ESXi 4.1 on a USB key, if this system had ESXi 4.1 installed on the local disk.  He ended up giving me the GROUP when he discovered another ESXi installation.

  Thoughts?

  Matt

  As you may have noticed a new ESXi installation will wipe away the installation partition.  If you have just a single Bay, then you'll want to go to the root of the USB.  If the data store was on a LUN or a separate table, then you'd be OK to install ESXi on ESX.  As long as the boot order is set correctly, you'll be fine.

  In my test environment, I know that you can not install ESXi 4.1 on a USB key, if this system had ESXi 4.1 installed on the local disk. He ended up giving

  me the GROUP when he discovered another ESXi installation.

  What kind of system did you use for testing?

  Dave

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• HA with local storage

  Hello

  I'm trying to set up a cluster between 2 hosts with HA on vSphere 5.5. I wonder if it is necessary the shared storage used for all partitions or if it is possible to have partitions on the shared data store and others locally. The motivation behind this is to have applications and their performance managed on local disk files but still be able to their failover using HA. This kind of configuration is possible? If so, is it a good idea?

  Thank you!

  Welcome to the community,

  No, in order for HA work files of all virtual machines must be stored on shared storage that is accessible by all guests who participate in the HA cluster. Remember, if a host goes down, data stored on local disks of the host is not available, which does not allow to restart the virtual machine on a different host.

  André

• Problem when executing the processors in the nodes with disabled local storage

  Hello world
  
  We test the coherence JSR107 (a.k.a. JCache) implementation of Yannis (https://github.com/yannis666/Coherence-JSR-107) and we found the following issue when you work with a local storage where distributed cache node is disabled (using - Dtangosol.coherence.distributed.localstorage = false). Yannis implementation uses several EntryProcessors for the execution of operations get() or put () in the cache. For example, the following code is used to update a value in the cache:
  
  / public class PutProcessor implements InvocableMap.EntryProcessor {}
  
  @Override
  public Object process (input InvocableMap.Entry) {}
  BEntry entry = (BinaryEntry) BinaryEntry;
  return bEntry.isPresent ()? bEntry.getBinaryValue (): null;
  }
  
  }
  
  And put operatino is taken from the following code:
  
  namedCache.invoke (key, CPU)
  
  where processor argument contains a reference to the PutProcessor object.
  
  
  When we call JSR107 performs surgery put in the cache and code above we get following exception:
  
  java.lang.NullPointerException
  to com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.grid.partitionedService.PartitionedCache$ Storage.invoke (PartitionedCache.CDB:10)
  at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.grid.partitionedService.PartitionedCache.onInvokeRequest(PartitionedCache.CDB:52)
  to com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.grid.partitionedService.PartitionedCache$ InvokeRequest.run (PartitionedCache.CDB:1)
  at com.tangosol.coherence.component.net.message.requestMessage.DistributedCacheKeyRequest.onReceived(DistributedCacheKeyRequest.CDB:12)
  at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Grid.onMessage(Grid.CDB:34)
  at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Grid.onNotify(Grid.CDB:33)
  at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.grid.PartitionedService.onNotify(PartitionedService.CDB:3)
  at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.grid.partitionedService.PartitionedCache.onNotify(PartitionedCache.CDB:3)
  at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.Daemon.run(Daemon.CDB:42)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
  
  Of course we have previously started another node in the cluster with local storage enabled.
  
  It seems that, as no storage card is present at the node, a NullPointerException is thrown when you try to insert the entry.
  
  Could someone give advice on this problem and how to overcome? This implementation is based on the processor is not compatible with the knots of localstorage cache disabled?
  
  Thank you in advance,
  
  Daniel C.

  Hello

  It sounds like COH-7180 - demand deserialization failure results in a cryptic NullPointerException, that has been fixed in one of the 3.7.1 patches. The real problem is that your entryprocessor cannot be deserialized.

• How to increase the size of the block of local storage

  Hi all

  We have installed Esx 4.0 with 500 GB storage, it does increase the block size default of 1 MB to 2 MB. We need to assign a virtual disk 450 GB for a virtual computer.

  We tried to remove the storage, we get the error "the disk is currently in use".  PL share us the command to run from the console.

  Thanks in advance

  Centhil

  Hello.

  I used an installation based on the script to trackle this problem of disk split into two partitions

  1. Create disk configuration

  Cat < < EOFdisk > >/tmp/diskconfig

  clearpart - alldrives - overwritevmfs

  part/boot - fstype = ext3 - size = 1100 - onfirstdisk

  No part - fstype = vmkcore - size = 110 - onfirstdisk

  part $: esxconsole - fstype = vmfs3 - size = 40000 - maxsize = 40000 onfirstdisk - part $: local - fstype = vmfs3 - size = 40000 - grow - onfirstdisk

  VirtualDisk esxconsole - size = 16607 - onvmfs = $: esxconsole

  party swap - fstype = swap - size = 1600 - maxsize = 1600 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part/var - fstype = ext3 - size = 4000 - maxsize = 4000 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part/home - fstype = ext3 - size = 2000 - maxsize = 2000 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part / opt - fstype = ext3 - size = 2000 - maxsize = 2000 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part/tmp - fstype = ext3 - size = 2000 - maxsize = 2000 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part / - fstype = ext3 - size = 5000 - push - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  EOFdisk

  In the post installation, you can format the secondary drive

  vimsh - not hostsvc/storage/refreshment

  sleep 5

  / usr/sbin/vmkfstools - c b 2 M s $ESXHOSTNAME vmfs3: local /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0:6 > > /var/log/PostInstall.log

  See you soon,.

  Mary

• install ESX/ESXi on faster disks increases performance of the guest OS?

  for example, if you have installed ESX/ESXi on a faster local SSD or HARD disk, would be the overall performance of the ESXi and hosted OS be improved?

  Or ESX works completely in memory even after the start, so it does not improve a lot?

  If you have an iSCSI storage, I suggest you install ESX (i) on the local disk and attach (s) your storage iSCSI LUN as a VMFS data warehouses.

  André

• Virtulize SQL on a local storage

  Guys,

  I hope I am posting this in the right place.

  I have an obligation to provide a Virtualization solution on a very tight budget.  Accordingly, I have only 2 hosts ESXi 4 with 32 GB of RAM and local storage, although I'm playing around with the idea of iSCSI and OpenFiler on an area dedicated as a shared storage solution.

  I am concerned about virtulizing SQL 2005 on this platform.  Not so much SQL but SQL running on a single host ESXi 4 with local storage (RAID 5).  I am concerned about the disk I/O between virtualized SQL server contention and other virtual machines.   There is also the question of the server SQL itself consumes resources of disk/memory of its host to the point where it would be impractical to be virtualized.

  I need to run SQL 2 applications to start with. We have a 8GB of RAM at a minimum and the other ha s a minimum requirement of 2 GB.  It will take the amount of RAM I can give to other virtual machines.

  What I've read, SQL performance is improved when you have different RAID types and different drives DBs/transaction logs.  These options are not possible with local storage.

  I'd love some opinions on whether:

  SQL running on a single ESX4i host with local storage is never a good idea

  If it is no longer acceptable to use iSCSI storage

  Thank you

  Yes, better to use ESX. Best of all - ESX4, there a lot of performance improvements, especially in iSCSI stack. Also for you it is better to use shared storage, due to a possible consolidation of your SQL server server in the future. I would use iSCSI via NFS, because it has lower overhead, resulting in greater performance for SQL. One also, I recommend you not to use some free Linux solutions like OpenFiler or FreeNAS - they are not the best options to create good and robust solutions. If you have a small budget, you can try using StarWind or Datacore.

• Local storage VMDK size recommended

  At the time we were in VMware server, we were in charge of keeping virtual disks on our hosts relatively small (about 20 GB or less) and just add more disks to the virtual computer when necessary. The reason being because more large VMDK was unweildy and often caused performance problems. I wonder if there is a guideline like this for ESXi.

  I think that with a SAN disk size becomes irrelevant because they are never actually moved or anything, but with local storage, consider backups and disk performance. All recommended for disc sizes?

  Not exactly order this blog post, I've written should give you some additional information.

  http://www.dailyhypervisor.com/2009/03/26/ESX-datastore-sizing-and-allocation/

  SID Smith

  -

• Local storage and multiple ESXi hosts

  Hi, I was wondering how vWorkspace manages local storage in an environment with a single server Vcenter and two ESXi, with a local data store each.

  If I store a 'master' (I mean the gold statue) vm on the local storage of an ESXi, can replicate vWorkspace this virtual machine to the local storage of the other ESXi as Citrix VIAB?

  If not, how can I use both my ESXi servers with local storage and maybe provide some sort of HA?

  Am I forced to use a storage shared, if I want to be able to deploy clones related both to my ESXI?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Use vSAN, or no matter what virtual SAN Appliance as an iSCSI SAN storage to prosecute two storage facilities... You can replicate between the two servers and same LUNS are used by vWorkspace.

  • StarWind free iSCSI Solution A
  • OpenFiler
  • vSAN
  • Open-e iSCS SAN

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