Storage vmotion of storage facilities to storage San in ESXi 5.0

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• Prices (not storage vmotion) vmotion, DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) features available in ESXi cluster?

  Prices (not storage vmotion) vmotion, DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) features available in ESXi cluster?

  I thought that ESXi is a correct free download?

  Yes and no. ESXi Hypervisor binaries are the same for all editions (free and paid). It depends only on the license key that you have what features are available and if you can add an instance of vCenter server host.

  If you just want to test vSphere, you can sign up for a free 60-day trial (no required license key) during this period, all the features of the 'Business Plus' edition are available.

  André

• 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

  Quick search... www.unixarena.com/.../Top-10-Storage-appliance.html

• Addition of storage on server ESXi

  Hi all

  I have a question about adding storage to my ESXi server, at this moment I have a Dell Power edge T610 which has 3 physical disks with raid 5. Would it not as simple as just adding a new hard drive? Or is there something that will have to perform on the server to increase my free space.

  Thank you

  Richard.

  It depends on what exactly you want to do.  If you are wanting to add space to the existing RAID, then you need to configure the RAID as such through its control panel controller or application.  If you're only wanting to add another drive for more space for non-critical use, then you should be able to just add and go.

  If you have found this helpful at all prices please points using the correct or useful!  Thank you!

• Connection iSCSI SAN to ESXi servers

  Hi all

  I am trying to work through the iSCSI SAN Config Guide and get our three ESXi servers connected to our iSCSI SAN, but I'm confused about a few points.

  Background - Our production network is 172.16.10.x, our management network is 172.16.64.x and the SAN is on the 10.1.1.x network.

  The Guide says that the service console and VMkernel need to access the iSCSI storage - but in ESXi, there is no service console. Our network administrator (who has used 2 ESX) said just put in place two vSwitches and configuring each of them to VMkernel access, one on network 10 and the other on the management network. Every time I try this, I lose connectivity to the management console. It seems VMkernel wants a default gateway set and when I put it for 172.16.64.1, the SAN does not connect, but when I put it to 10.1.1.1, vCenter loses the connection. Our network administrator says he won't let the 172.16.64.x network traffice to the 10.1.1.x network, but I think that we have to set up in this way.

  Is there something I'm missing. There actually seems to be three issues. (1) when the Guide says of console, VMkernel and service is possible to distinguish between the two in ESXi? (2) if we set VMkernel network 172.16.64.x, can we create a second VMkernel on the 10.1.1.x network? and (3) should just bite the bullet and set up routing between the VMkernel and the San?

  Thank you. I know it was long and complicated, but that reflects my confusion! Any help would be appreciated.

  The answer to the first question is no, there is no distinction between console and vmkernel port in ESXi, like network service management of walks on the portgroup vmkernel.

  You should be able to create a vmkernel 2nd interface, and you do not change the default gateway.  As you have noticed, you can have a default gateway, that is why the default part.  That alone, and you should have two exchanges vmkernel, one on the network management and the other on the storage network.  The vmkernel being on the same segment as the storage, traffic goes out through it and not the default gateway, so no routing must take place.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• Storage VMotion for a virtual machine with SAN LUNS attached to it. They are all going to?

  Hello

  Don't know which section of this post, so sorry if its wrong.

  We are eager to Storage VMotion of our SQL VM. These are our SAN 3040 of NetApp. In the virtual machine (windows 2003), they have also connected to the network SAN NetApp 3040 LUN.

  What I need to know is, if we tried to do the other (NetApp 3170) SAN Storage VMotion problems due to the fact that its storage not only fast vMotioning of VMs its self, but also the LUN or LUNS will remain on 3040, and the virtual machines moved to the 3170?

  Who is?

  If more info should help just shout!

  Cheers in advance...

  Rik

  RDM's Raw card device.

  As I posted earlier, you need to move data to the Raw LUN for LUN Raw new either through data copy inside the VM if you map the new LUNS brutes who him or copy.

• the storage SAN boot configuration

  I replaces my VMware host and have a question about best practices to configure local storage. Currently I have three Dell servers with embedded vmware 4.1. My new host has 4 300 GB SAS 15 k drives. I am currently begin directly to an EMC SAN using iSCSI. My plan is to continue to start directly on a new EMC e 3300 SAN using iSCSI. What is the best way to use local storage?

  1 create a Raid 5, but only use it for the installation of vmware?

  2. create a smaller Raid for VMware, then another for the space to use the?

  3 another option all together?

  Thanks in advance for your help,

  Don

  If you install your ESXi on that RAID group, the difference will be available in a local data store.

• Storage - SAN iSCSI 1Gbit o 6Gbit SAS HBA

  Ciao,.

  scusate ragazzi, serve my e find the retta via...
  GIA conosco iscsi sas e-tra rant...
  Proposte che mi sono arrivate familières grossomodo configurazioni stessa, con due nodi, my ognuna di interconnettersi allo storage prevedere to was different.
  The SAN PS4100 of mi DELL offers
  The IBM mid DAS (SAN) DS5300 offers.
  Adesso, considerazioni IOPS / s a parte che ho gia fatto e ad incidere vanno solo dei sulla configurazione brain (tipo, e number raid)... I wanted to concentrarmi sulla parte interconnessione.
  Ho come idea percorrendo the DELL mi ritrovi imprigionato strada che... Imprigionato dal fatto di avere una con 2 connessioni sole di rete ridontate entrylevel SAN da 1 Gbit. (4 + 2 management totali)
  Percorrendo strada IBM invece ho impressed di avere a canale nice technologist e veloce. 2 SAS HBA controller per ogni nodo di 6Gbit. (4 SAS HBA + 2 NIC management).
  Non lo so is mi must impressionare questi valori, mi'd leggere it vostro punto di vista.
  IO non riesco a choose.
  THX

  Luca Dell'Oca ha scritto:

  Resterei sul discorso di Francesco did, SAS e molto più easy da configurare, my live attach no you andare oltre 4 Server substitutes i can usually; iSCSI ha invertiti pro e contro.

  Ciao, Luca

  rispondendo All allowed:

  preferirei sentirmi più libero di add server dedicated negoziazioni difficolta di configurazione... che queste TR % in some modo.

  Ben più difficult it could essere superare no problema "fisico.

  Giusto?

  ForSE no, siamo capiti SAS in DA e moooolto più semplice da configurare. In the HBA AI controller nel modo product, ISP he lun masking e hai finito. You can max 4 host collegare.

  Con iSCSI which prevedere 2 eth level di certo UN, configurare correctly switch VLANs, LACP, trunking, jumbo ecc. ECC.

  Potrai collegare tutti I server che nel degli limit you want to switch.

  All'aumentare degli host treatment probabilmente raggiungerai degli index degli storage limits.

  You quanti host ESXi you want to employ? Hai anche altri tipi di collegare host da? Linux o Windows.

  Hai weather di crescita per I 4/5 of next years?

  Ciao

• Reflections on "Extensible" storage (local, non - SAN) in ESXi 5

  I'm looking for advice/thoughts on this kind of the storage configuration I should consider small deployment of virtual machines.  I'll try to give some general advice and what kinds of compromises and limits, I work with.

  • No SAN: all storage is local.  Right now, I'm working with a couple of servers Cisco UCS, with anywhere from ~ 300 SSD ~ 4 TB of SATA storage drives.  New: all the disks are local, a San is not in the scope/estimates for this.  Willing to accept that this is not optimal but also need to do the best I can here.
  • Operating systems are for the most part win2008, win7, linux.  Maybe others, but these are dominant.
  • Essential condition is to be able to "push" files over time systems.
    • We know that * some * of these servers will grow considerably in their storage needs.  Unfortunately, we do not know who is not possible to pre-configure the large disk on each of them from the outset.

  So I have a few questions of high level... some of them are probably basic/stupid, and for that I apologize.  My background is heavy network, PC/server systems that are quite heavy, but very light on storage.

  • How effective is thin provisioning?  If my physical hard drive, is that just an array of RAID5 2 TB shared 20 VM... is possible/reasonable just configure each virtual machine with a disc of 2 TB thin-set in service, and then control the real storage because it develops over time?
  • Assuming that my RAID controller supports adding online records in the table, it's a reasonable thing to consider?  I * am * in a position where take down physical hosts for maintenance is not just a deal, so if I can add more disks in the array later she is great OK if it takes a couple hours of time offline.  I am trying to understand if the following workflow is possible, and if possible is considered reasoanbly safe?
  • Suppose a host with 4x500G than SATA drives in a RAID5 array, it's a large store of data single VMFS where everything lives...  On this host, we have a number of linux VMs each with a small disc of BONE and a larger data drive (let's call it 600GO).  At some point, the vmfs data store is close to full, and I want to expand it... What are my options here?
    • I can do something like this:
  1. Turn off the VMs, shut down the server.  (it's OK...)
  2. Add additional physical disks on the machine and push the matrix RAID controller level (I realize that this might take a while)
  3. Start, expand the vmfs data store in ESXI (is it possible?  If so, how?)
  4. increase the size of the disk assigned to the greedy VM in storage in ESXi
  5. Start the virtual machine, extend the partition, and then push the file system (I know how to Linux, is it feasible in windows?)

  anyway... it's probably more enough questions to get started.  I appreciate some advice/ideas that people might have.

  To monitor the growth of the VMFS data and store what I understand, you want an automatic transmission incase a threshold defined by you exceed you must first configure the IP address of the smtp server of vCenter parameters. After that, go to the alarm at the level of the data center and to go in the store of data use alarm properties reports tab, select Add and sets the e-mail address of your part there.

  For your reference

  http://www.vmadmin.co.UK/VMware/36-VirtualCenter/117-alarmsemailalerts

• Addition of storage SAN to Cluster

  Hey, Im new to VMWare, so I apologize if this seems to be a silly question to some.

  I've got ESX 4.1 in a cluster host, and the hosts are connected to my network SAN.  I can add storage through each host and to create a store of data, but it shows as a local data store, which I assume means don't get no HA for VMs on this LUN.

  How can I add the storage to the cluster, so that it is available for all guests?

  Thank you.

  Anton way described, it is how it works - if the logic unit number on your San is presented to each host that it prove - I have never create a cluster with just one host so I can't talk about that how it displays in the client vSphere - the way that I would check is open the configuration for your host tab and check the storage adapters and if the number Logic unit is hsowing upwards under the FC HBA than it is on the SAN.

  Since there is no data on the LUN I would go ahead and expose him to another host - the host doesn't have to make part of the cluster for it - and see if changes in the description.

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

• License storage SAN from VMware?

  Earlier, in ESX3.5, you had to buy a winnowing ESX (or addon license) license level to be able to fix SAN/NAS (read: NFS, FC or ISCSI) storage.

  I can't read page of comparation of Vmware if such i always the case license editions in vSphere.

  I wish I could join a couple linked to the CF TB disk ("leftovers" of our Exchange upgrade) on our test server with vSphere Standard license.

  Or do I have to update the license to a level higher?

  No, you don't. It is part of the standard offerering. (4 page: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf)

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• Storage SAN (data store) cannot be seen by guests

  Hi all

  I have a strange problem with a newly added SAN (LUN) storage device.

  I have 3 hosts running with a shared data store (SAN) which works very well. Now I have a new machine SAN shared connected to all guests, but when I "add storage" on host1 and refresh the storage to other hosts (Setup - & gt; storage - & gt; discount), I can see the data store created only on host1 and host3. When I choose 'add a storage' on host2 it destroyes the data store created and create a new one that is visible to host2.

  I tried several times to add and refreshment, but the same results come once again.

  Any help would be appreciated

  It would take a while for these hosts another to see the new store of data created on another host. How end restart your host 2?

  VMware newbie...

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• Sizing the storage SAN and RAM

  Hello

  I intend to install a VView infrstaructure into our existing environment VI. We currently hold 21 ESX host and we intend to use 4 of this virtual host ESX to run jobs for a call center.

  We'd start with 140 thinclients (Wyse or SunRay) and I begin to get an idea of the minimum requirements of storage I need. I would use the technology of cloning related.

  My figure is really simple:

  140 posts Vista running applications office and IE only.

  Our ESX hosts are HP Proliant BL460c blade with two quad core 2.66 Ghz proc, they currently have 16 GB of RAM installed.

  Is it realistic to predict a simple requirements as follows:

  RAM: 140 x 512 MB RAM: 70 GB of RAM spread over three ESX

  SAN: 140 x 15 GB = 2.1 to

  Agreed!

  Less Ram, fewer resources, less use of the drive, better compatibility...

  We keep round 200 vm per lun for our VDI, but this depends on how you have your set up storage space and the table itself (if it is capable of it).

  W

• What is the best way to copy vm of one Esx to another without shared storage - San for example

  Hello

  I'm trying to copy a virtual machine from one Esx to another Esx on the network.   We do not have shared as a SAN storage.  The problem is that I do not know Linux command, so I tried to copy comments vm using Winscp.  The problem is Winscp did something to the file flat vmdk by adding an extension, and I can't change this extension with Winscp.  I'm doing something wrong.

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  What about VMware Converter?

• Adding new storage SAN to ESX 4.1 - same LUN ID is.

  I got 6 new Hitachi SAN LUNS to 500 GB a piece to add to my ESX 4.1 cluster.  The new LUNS have LUN ID that already exists in the cluster.  In other words, the new LUN IDS are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I already have these LUN ID in the cluster.  They range from LUN0 to LUN48.  Is it OK to add those LUNS with the same ID?  Or is it the 49-54 LUNS?

  Thank you.

  In your case, his eyes already exist LUNS and LUN newly mapped are different table.

  Should not be any problem because naa id would be different, but its good to have different since we usually draw the vmhba C0:T0:L0 lun.