Local VMs of shared storage

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• move VMs from the local shared storage

  We are running ESXi 4.1 with local storage that we did experiments with VMware. Close have 2 new purchased hosts with a SAN for the shared storage, hopefully, they will arrive at the end of January. I need to build a couple of virtual machines to take care of a few issues until our new VM environment is set up. If I create a new virtual machine on my host with local storage and that you want to move to new hosts and the shared storage the arrival of our new purchase, I guess I can do it with vMotion? Other methods too? Also, is there anything I need to worry as move us VMS local shared storage storage and a new host of ramifications?

  Thanks for helping a newbie, Tom

  You will need Enterprise or Enterprise Plus access to Storage vMotion. vMotion moves a virtual machine from one host to the host running but no storage.

• Can VMs on clustered storage use?

  I have install a cluster on ESX 3.5 and experience some SAN LUNS available (as shared on a Clariion AX4-5 storage). Virtual machines currently use local storage to each host in the cluster and they were previously separate hosts but I grouped in a cluster recently. My plan is to migrate VMs for storing shared little by little, as I'm not sure if SAN Bay can manage all virtual machines, without there being issues with degradation IO (I'm imagining 20 Windows operating system running a variety - it may be good but it seems to me that there could be performance problems). I intend to have HA and DRS working on this cluster (possibly - at the moment they are not enabled). I currently have 16 VMs Windows through host 2. The majority of these servers are servers of file/application for general purposes; There are a few small DBs and a low load Citrix server, but they will have huge needs IO. One of the virtual machines will be the new main file server so will have random reads/writes, but should not be too heavy.

  Some of the virtual machines are not mission critical and not really need HA and I plan to keep the latter on the local storage if possible to maintain the highest possible IO for important servers. I plan to move virtual machines from shared storage one and then make sure that there are no obvious performance problems.

  What would be the best way to do this? I keep some virtual machines on the local storage and the best way to configure the cluster/VMs for this? If I can isolate each VM cluster parameters, etc. ?

  Any tips will be appreciated.

  See you soon,.

  Tim

  P.S. I'm worrying unecessarily on SAN i/o performance?

  Yes, they can be in a cluster and use local storage - but just make sure that you disable HA for this virtual machine in the by the parameters of the virtual machine and do the same for the SRD if DRS is enabled

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• 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

• Migrate virtual machines from HP G7(single host) for HP G8 (Cluster) without shared storage

  Hello

  I have 2 esxi host (hp dl 380 G8) and put them in a cluster and other host esxi (dl 380 g7) and I have no shared storage and use local disks just now I must spend my VM G7 server a cluster of the G8 but I want to know I can join my cluster g8 g7 and migrate web vmware machines without any downtime?

  I want to know can migrate without downtime with localdisk? I have no shared storage

  Best regards

  BAbak

  can I join g7 to my cluster of the g8

  You can mix into clusters hosts all desired, even Intel and AMD at least that you enable EVC on the cluster (of course, HA or DRS require shared storage compatible/CPU). However, you need not to have even just cluster hosts to migrate virtual machines through vMotion between them.

  migrate web vmware machines without any downtime?

  Don't know what this "web vmware' but yes, because ESXi 5.1, you can use"enhanced vMotion"to live migrate virtual machines without service interruption from one host to another, even without shared storage:

  Migration with vMotion in environments without shared storage

  The usual vMotion requirements apply. Also you can only live migrate virtual machines from the old host to the new hosts because of different generations of CPU (and back as long as you don't have bike powered virtual machines on new hosts).

• 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

• vSphere 6 FT cannot yet compensate for shared storage takedown?

  Hello

  a few questions about the PI with vsphere 6.0 — we just noted this in the test lab:

  (a) is it true that the 'source' vm where you want to enable IP MUST be on shared storage? because it seems that way.

  As you mentioned in the documents, it is now possible to locate the storage for the target on a separate storage VMDK (this can also be a non-shared storage just seen by the target host).

  Now the second question: we ft´t just a machine (source on the shared storage, target on a local storage of target esxi. Bootet, installed the virtual machine just cool. Each host may die - all cool.

  NOW, we killed the shared storage of laboratory. We wondered: Hmmmm... OK... If the second host the vmdk and both hosts have the namespace and the vmx why not keep the virtual machine running on the target storage? But what we saw was disappointing: the protected virtual machine became unresponsive. Is this expected behavior? The new ft cannot lose the shared storage?

  Best regards

  Joerg

  Unfortunately, FT in vSphere 6 still relies on storage shared for the tiebreaker file and source VMX file and other functions.

  See this thread:

  https://communities.VMware.com/thread/504877

• Using the odd drive with shared storage

  We have deployed a 15-node cluster with shared storage.  When we issue a df - h, we see the root filesystem and / mnt mounted file systems.

  We also see the file of each of the other systems the datanodes on the local storage of the each other.  For example...

  / mnt/SCSI-123abc is mounted on the server server01

  / mnt/SCSI-456def is mounted on server02

  Under/mnt on the server server01, we also see/mnt/scsi-456def under the root file system, not mounted as its own file system.

  Under/mnt on server02, we also see/mnt/scsi-123abc under the root file system, not mounted as its own file system.

  Is this a problem of storage configuration, or is this something that the BDE has decided when it deployed?

  Thank you

  Steve

  BTW, you can add your script hack or the scripts that I have provided in the /opt/serengeti/sbin/format-disk.py file in the node template, and then after that the empty cluster is created, the mount point/mnt/bigdata1... are there the/mnt/bigdataN.

• VMotion for one HA cluster to another - no shared storage

  I was trying to vmotion that two hosts and clusters of data from a virtual computer store between HA (no shared storage). The web client gives me this warning and I'm curious to know what he is talking about:

  **

  If this is done, the virtual machine will lose vSphere HA protection. If you proceed with this operation and it completes successfully, vSphere HA not will try to restart the virtual machine after a subsequent failure. vSphere HA protection is restored when network partitions or disk accessibility problems are solved...

  **

  HA is working in two groups, in terms of network and the heartbeat data store. So what exactly this message tells me thank you!

  I get the same warning when turf migrate a virtual machine between two clusters and I select the source host unreachable destination data store. If I select a store different data that is shared by the two poles of competitiveness, no warning appears.

  This warning is probably up for the vMotion suppose it will stay within the same cluster and check if the source host and destination can access the same data store. As the store of data (and config agent HA) is not shared between your source and destination hosts residing in different groups, it seems that the vMotion compatibility check guess it's a store of local data or something like that.

  However, once migrated to the new cluster, FDM HA agents should choose the new VM place very well and protect it according to your settings in cluster HA, so nothing to worry about here.

• shared storage

  Hi everyone, iam configuration lab and I need shared storage

  I want to know if I can share a Director on one of my servers esxi and use it as a shared storage

  mmjaboor wrote:

  How to make a server esxi storage shared among other esxi servers

  You mean like we use openfile on a windows or linux box to provied storage lun with free space on them, like that on ESXi.

  TAT is then not possible. But still, you can create a virtual machine set up all the storage, installing openfile or starwind, from there, you can give access to shared another esxi storage.

  or

  Installing vcenter

  create the cluster

  every 2 or 3 esxi, who owns the local data store.

  now install vmware storage appliance - through you can make use of all the local data store to be shared across all the esxi.

  See the link on vmware storage appliance with vsphere novelty 5 below. :-

  http://www.VMware.com/products/Datacenter-Virtualization/vSphere/vSphere-storage-appliance/overview.html

  Software that offers storage shared for SMEs without shared storage hardware. VMware vSphere Storage Appliance extends the benefits of virtualization to all SMEs in several hosts of Server internal storage or how to transform a protected shared storage resource

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• Free/busy options high, with no shared storage

  Here is a little history on our Setup. CurrentY we run vmware server 2.0 on centos 5.4 on both servers in a data center to remove. Currently, what we are doing is a manual process to a level of poormans HA. We create a snapshot of the virtual machine (sometimes) and you use rsync to synchronize the virtual machine on the other server. Each server has 2 mirrored disks and disk 1 not mirrored. If each server synchronizes the reader not mirrored.

  I have a key for the company left, I wonder what would be my options for maximum availability with the two servers and HA. We would like to have the opportunity to have HA and FT, but the shared storage is not an option right now.

  Thank you!

  All VMware high availability options require a shred storage.

  You can create virtual shared storage on warehouses of local data (updated mirror network) with the Virtual SAN PHDVirtual, HP Lefthand VSA or StarWind iSCSI.

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• Share resources between the 2 ESX 4.0 hosts without shared storage

  Hello guys,.

  I have the following question, I want to clarify.

  Imagine that we have 2 host ESX 4.0 with more functional license acquired (HA, VMotion, DRS, etc.)

  The two physical servers are identical. Don t have access to any kind of shared storage (San, no iSCSI, NAS no, etc.)

  In host #1 I installed all the virtual machines using local storage.

  Is it posible to use the host #2 resources (memory and CPU) to give more power to accommodate #1.

  My doubt is if it is posible to have a VM installed in local HD in home #1 and using RAM or / and CPU host # 2.

  Just do a cluster between the two hosts to empower the host #1 resources (not use DRS or functions of Vmotion)

  Let me know if I explained in a good way or not.

  Hope someone can clarify this for me.

  Thanks in advance

  It is not possible, even if you have the shared storage.

  There is no possibility that allows you access to CPU and memory of 2 resources different hosts.

  See you soon,.

  ~ Jean

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• Family sharing storage payment with gift Catd iCloud?

  Hey guyz I wonder if I am part of the family sharing and I have iTunes store credit, it will be used to pay for the monthly fees storage icloud for the account?  I'm not the leader of the family sharing.

  Thank you!

  Yes.

  We have activated the family sharing. ICloud-storage is also shared in the family? What about iTunes game - is this also shared storage?

• External partition problem 'shared storage' AT105

  I'm not entirely sure what the problem is exactly, but I can only download and install programs videos on the partition of storage shared my tablet. I have about 2 GB of free space on my internal storage, 3 GB free on my SD card and yet I am limited to the 200 MB of free space f 'shared storage' in settings/applications.
  I already tried to switch to Tablet option on all applications, but it shows only 200 MB of total free space of 2.5 GB of shared storage.

  My question is, how can I get rid of this partition or how can I download on my memory internal or SD card. No matter what I do, everything I download or install is sent to the shared storage. I have a ton of free space that I can not access.

  Help, please.
  Running OS 4

  Hello

  Android apps would be installed on internal flash of my knowledge.
  You can use some applications like app2SD to move the only app to SD card.
  But not all the apps that support.

  In addition, the SD card must be formatted in exFAT to write to the SD card

• VNX 5300 file shared storage - connect to Cisco UCS 6200 interconnection fabric

  Hello

  I'm designing a calculation and Shared Storage solution to help

  • EMC VNX 5300 shared storage
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  I have a question about where the connection Data movers with i/o 10GE ports. I connected to the 6248 UCS Cisco fabric interconnections or connect them to the switch IP network?

  kind is ok.