Limit storage on ESXI

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• 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.

• Basic questions about the storage on ESXi

  Hello

  We are about to implement a VMware ESXi environment and I would like to get some clarification on the storage in ESXi before proceeding.

  Material: 3 guests and HP EVA4000 FC 4 TB SAN.

  We execute the file, mail, web, directory, application and database servers.

  Some of these services require quick I/O and some require data to be 'seen' by at least 2 virtual servers for HA.

  Can I use discs RDM for HA/Clustering servers and for those who need quick I/O, or can I use VMDK:s?

  If I present to you the entire 4 TB SAN ESXi can I then several virtual servers use certain parts of this 4 TB SAN as discs RDM and other servers use certain parts of this SAN as VMDK:s? (Do we have virtual HBA:s in ESXi?)

  Thank you

  Yes. But you must consider as usual VMDK of hard drives in this case, you must install the cluster file system there.

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• storage and esxi 4.1 configuration

  I'm new to esxi 4.1 and have done research on configurations. The will of VMs, I'm looking at hosting a Server 2008 SBS (Exchange), 2 Windows 2008 servers. We are looking at a Dell Poweredge T710 with 16 GB of RAM, dual Xeon E5645 procs and 6 1 TB 7.2 k drives in a raid 10 configuration.

  The SBS and one of the 2008 servers are just for Exchange and some local databases. Server 2008 remaining is for a scanning solution and will most of the storage.

  What I read in the forums, I have some questions:

  1. 1 TB disks will be good enough (much?) performance wise or should we invest more in the faster discs?

  2. If I create the virtual machine and want to share storage should I create another virtual machine and install openfiler to manage the remaining disk space? Or could I use a raw connection of a store of data to one of the servers 2008 and share him?

  3.I also realize that esxi has a limit of 2 TB data store. Does that mean I can create 2 partitions during the RAID and have 1 to 1 and the other 2 to?

  You can thin available to a player. Add a large thin drive and it will increase in size when you add files. You can also keep addig additional 100 GB disks or you can easily develop a reader if necessary.

  I would just like to add disk space that you need. Use Windows to share flies, rather than adding complexity to your environment.

• Storage Local ESXi 3.5 U3 problem

  I have a RAID array that 2.72 TB in size, that ESXi can identify, but when I try to add storage, ESXi reported only 741,99 GB available. The table is empty and runs on a suitable 4805SAS adapter, which is supported in the HCL.

  Does anyone have any suggestions as to why I can't use all available space?

  Thanks in advance.

  You have run against the infamous ESX 2 TB limit.  Storage of ESX data extensions are limited to 2 TB - you must bring your RAID array 2 TB in size or less in order for ESX to see all of the space.

• Change the limit storage to the SharePoint Web approaching site

  Is there a way to SP 2010 change the default e-mail notifications sent from SharePoint? For example, when a SP site approaches its storage limit, the default notification remains below:

  You receive this message because you are an administrator on the SharePoint Web site, which has exceeded the level of warning for storage: https://yoursite.com/office. To find out how much storage is being absorbed by this site, go to the use of site collections view summary: https://yoursite.com/office/_layouts/Usage.aspx

  Is there a way that this text can be changed without configuring a trigger to send a second and separate total e-mail?

  Thank you!

  For any question about SharePoint 2010, please visit http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010. It is not a forum for answers of MS, and this Feedback forum is not intended for technical questions, but only for comments on the forums for answers.

• 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!

• Flash copy storage IBM - ESXi 5.0

  Hello

  I would be really looking for an answer to my questions for the copy of flash using Vmware environment, can someone answer my questions?

  We have two prod and DR enviroment environment

  We assigned 200 GB lun to production and we formwated like vmfs and then allocated to virtual machines as a file vmdk (around 5 volumes including the C drive)

  Now we copy Flash available on the environment of the DR, now my question is.

  If Reanalyze us DR environment with after which allows re-signing, VMware will not always grateful as VMFS volume? 200 GB flash copy lun and we can get all the VM in this data store? -any question about duplicate volume identify potential of IBM Storage?

  I have the same questions as inferior to discussion, but this discussion has not responded so ask again in a new discussion

  https://communities.VMware.com/message/586050#586050

  Yes, VMware will keep all data on the volume and mount it... the data store can get a new label in the snap -- and you can rename the data store later or before you mount the copy of data store, set the LVM in advanced settings. EnableResignature 1 on ESXi hosts.

  After editing, the data store, you can browse the data store, save virtual machines... and on the Outlook for IBM, the source and target volume storage copy Flash different IDS.

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

  All,

  I have two VRTX to be used for lab purposes that I am currently in configuration.

  Blades feature 4 VRTX with a shared storage infrastructure. Each blade has 5.5 installed on ESXi.

  I configured the shared on the VRTX storage, and all the blades can go very well.

  The question I'm currently facing is when you add the vCenter for managing ESXi hosts.

  Add the first host goes without a hitch. However, add any later host fail, because vCenter finds datastore attached hosts to have the same identifier.

  The error message is (see the attached screenshot): ' Datastore 'Main Shared-storage' is in conflict with a store of data that exists in the data center which has the same URL (ds: / / vmfs/volumes/xxxxx /), but is supported by different physical storage.

  Someone knows how to fix this?

  Thank you.

  Thanks for the reply.

  I think that I have found a workaround.

  First of all, this link does not address my particular issue.

  See, it's a whole new vCenter device installation and configuration. Only one of the four hosts to add host has been added.

  Still, the problem is that each ESXi host is a blade VRTX (M620), which has access to the data store created on the shared storage of VRTX.

  Basically, each host is editing the data store shared even (the only data store created on the shared storage), which works very well except for vCenter complain when you import the hosts.

  In any case, my resolution was as follows:

  -Add the first host with the attached and mounted data store

  -Remove the data store and detach the controller shared by other guests before adding in vCenter

  -Re-attach the controller shared and set up the data store via vCenter once guests have been added

  -Re-configure each host for vSphere HA if necessary

  Thank you.

• Limit of vRAM ESXi

  We have just downloaded and installed VMware vSphere Hyperviser 5.1.0 build 799733 on a host with 2 processors and 80 GB of RAM. When that we allocate the new license to host, he mentions that we have unlimited processors but only 32 GB vRAM by UC. Then an error comes up saying:

  "The system memory is not convinced with the 32 GB limit memory Maximum. Course with 80 GB memory"

  I don't understand - I thought that this limitation of vRAM was removed? Any suggestions?

  Hello

  There is no limit of vRam... However, there is a maximum limit of 32 GB of Ram...

  More information: http://www.vladan.fr/esxi-5-1-free/

• 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,...)

  Thank you all for your comments on this subject,

  Concerning

  What is the size of wise mirror?

  How many records does

  without more information:

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

• iSCSI storage problem ESXi 5 u1

  Hello

  We have six ESXi 5 u1 servers connected to the storage unit Dell EqualLogic 65xx series. On ESXi systems we use the iSCSI Software and PSP is set to RoundRobin. We investigated a question where randomly throughout the day that we receive the following warning:

  VCenter:

  Failed to write command to write-suspended partition naa.6090a08890b27eeab8cee499fb01a0f6:1

  VMKernel:

  WARNING: ScsiDeviceIO: 3075: order of writing-suspended bulkhead 6090a08890b27eeab8cee499fb01a0f6:1 write failure

  Capability3: 13359: Max (10) attempts exceeded for appellant Fil3_FileIO (status "IO has been abandoned by VMFS via virt-reset of the unit")

  BC: 1858: cannot write (couriers) object '. iormstats.SF': level core exceeded Maximum attempts

  Also, we see a lot of messages indicating a loss of connectivity, iSCSI volumes:

  Lost access to the volume (LUN_NAME) 4f58ac5f-ef525322-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX because of connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is underway and the result will be
  reported in no time.

  This event is generated by all six guests at random time intervals and LUN iSCSI target different. At the same time, we notice a very high spike in CPU usage of 100% on the host that generates the message

  One thing we found through tests of vmkping is that ESXi hosts are configured for extended frames (9000 MTU vmk, vswitch and adapters), but the storage network, does not allow frames.

  This could be an indication of serious IP fragmentation on iSCSI? How we measure this?

  conraddel wrote:

  One thing we found through tests of vmkping is that ESXi hosts are configured for extended frames (9000 MTU vmk, vswitch and adapters), but the storage network, does not allow frames.

  This could be an indication of serious IP fragmentation on iSCSI? How we measure this?

  Do you know if the side SAN is configured for frames? If not, then it should probably not be a problem, given that the TCP connection will take care of the other so-called MSS sizes and your guests should get off by default the images of sizes.

  The worst situation would be if both the ESXi and the SAN supports jumbo frames, but not the switches between the two. Because the switches are 'invisible' problems don't happen, until you actually start sending larger images and those will arrive in silence by switches, i.e. no IP fragmentation.

  Have you also checked with vmkping what kind of end-to-end connectivity, you have? Options-d and s are very important get right: http://rickardnobel.se/archives/992

• SSD for storage of ESXi swap with overcommitment of memory

  Hello

  is - that someone has tried to use SSDS for ESXi swap storage and making the overcommitment of memory?

  Concerning

  check this: http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esxi-vswapping-with-sandforce-ssds it might be interesting...

• Local storage for ESXi - SD USB or a traditional hard drive

  We will replace our ESX host soon with new hardware and I'm on the fence about the use of a player USB SD 4 GB or traditional hard drives in a RAID. Obviously, the reader SD has its advantages, namely its speed and reliability, but is reliable enough to give up using redundant hard drives?

  As someone mentioned previously, we spend much of our time concerned with our redundant hard disks, expecting to fail. Several times the failure is related to moving parts in the drive also. SD readers have the pleasure of having no moving parts to wear out or fail. But what good are they?

  Sells the dealer that I spoke with them for 3 years and never heard of a failure. His $62 for 4 GB, so it's not a bottom of the line edit. It is designed to be in a HP DL380G7, once again, I doubt that it is a lower end model.

  I'm leaning toward the SD drive rather than traditional drives, but I wanted to get feedback from others who may have used this before configuration. I'm looking for the successes and failures (and the reason for the failure).

  4 GB is enough for installation (ESXi 4.1) and I have not any more local storage as VM is on the shared storage and the assistance as AppSpeed and esXpress VM program I can also install it on the shared storage (where in our current datacenter these are installed on the local storage). Or should I worry about this size with respect to logging or something else?

  Thanks in advance, please discuss.

  Eduard Tieseler

  I had a fight 100 ESX hosts running by USB - only questions I ever had were with the original green USB keys that HP provided in the first days of ESXi on USB.

  I like the approach of USB for several reasons:

  1. no local physical disk required, less moving parts = less material problems

  2. If you have local physical disks, you can use these as the dumping grounds for the ISOs etc.

  3. If rebuilding a server, I can remove the old USB key and press a new - and recover simply by replacing the OLD USB key

  4. I can pre-generate a USB one double key as a method of construction of servers in bulk (not tested on 4.1u1 well)

  5. I've had many many hard drive failures. . USB (except Green HP ones) have never failed on me.

  In addition, your syslog problem isn't treally a 0 - practice problem is to get servers to connect to a centralized in any case syslog box (I would even if I used not USB/SD)

  Good luck - let us know what you decide.

• Add storage to ESXi 4

  I have a Dell 2950 quad-dual core.  I have an array of RAID 10 6 2 TB SATA drives.  When I installed ESXi, he created a single data store of 1.45 TB.

  How do I create additional data storage to take advantage of the remaining 4 TB of storage in my RAID array?  I do in the RAID BIOS?  I thought that I was creating a single array with RAID 10...

  TIA,

  Miles

  You are welcome.

  Think about scoring the answer helped you to solve the problem as being correct. This is not only to award points, but more to help others with similar problems to find an answer more quickly.

  Thank you

  André