using hp p2000 with ESX 5.1 SAN storage

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• Is it possible to use GPFS or another build is a SAN storage shared for multiple ESX and ESXi hosts?

  We have a license GPFS and SAN storage. I am trying to create a storage shared for multiple ESX and ESXi hosts share existing virtual machines. We tried once NFS, it of a little slow and consume too much bandwidth LAN.

  Anyone can help answer? Thank you very much in advance!

  It depends on your storage space.

  You must connect all hosts to the same San, then follow the configuration guide of ESXi and specific documentation for your storage space (for sharing LUNS on multiple hosts).

  André

• ESXi 5.1 vMotion migration of VM with 2 vmdk: a SAN storage and other storage facilities

  Hi all:

  I got a two host clusters that uses a shared SAN storage where my VM files are stored. Storage hosts is an aggregation of the two 1 Gbps link

  path and so efficient throughput of 2 Gbps.

  Now I need to install a virtual machine that will host our proxy server (Squid). Proxy servers needs a flow of large I/O structure of the disk cache. So I'm

  Whereas by deploying somehow using two VMDK. One with the operating system and software, say vm.vmdk file and the other to the cache on the disk,

  tell the vm - 1.vmdk file.

  My idea is to put the file vm.vmdk on the storage, as well as other VM, I got, by putting the vm - 1.vmdk file to local storage, so does not link of 2 Gbps. say that

  This SAN storage named "san_storage", host local storage is named 'a_local_storage' and local storage of host B is named 'b_local_storage '. So vm.vmdk is

  on "san_storage/vm/vm.vmdk" and is shared both host A and B. say that VM begins to run on host A, vm - 1.vmdk file is "a_local_storage/vm/vm-1.vmdk".

  I would like to know is there is a way, by script or so, to change the configuration of the virtual machine in a way which when I do a host migration has to B, the second disc of the host

  virtual machine will be disconnected "a_local_storage/vm/vm-1vmdk" and will be linked to "b_local_storage/vm/vm-1.vmdk" at VM startup on host B.

  I don't want to copy 'vm - 1.vmdk' from one host to another, because the proxy server parce que le serveur proxy peut peut fills again.

  Is it possible to do? Or is - anyone has another solution?

  I use ESXi 5.1.0 799733 on the two hosts with a license that allows vMotion and using vCenter 5.1.0.5300 build 947940 to manage.

  concerning

  Lucas Brasilino

  You can use the powercli to edit the vmx (offline) configuration file

• With ESX and ESXi NAS storage configuration

  Hello

  Someone at - it a link to all the useful documents for the implementation of NAS with ESX storage.

  Thanks in advance.

  Find the link below

  http://www.Cognizant.com/HTML/content/bluepapers/vmware_esx_wp.PDF

  Concerning

  Anand

  While it is true the points

• Software mirroring for ESX (MON) on SAN storage

  ESX enable software mirroring LUN stored on the network strorage (that is to say, AoE, iscsi, fc)?

  Thank you!

  No ESX may not mirror - you will rely on the storage or RAID controller for mirroring of the drive (LUN).

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• ESX 4.0 with Dell/EMX CX500 SAN

  Hello

  We have a Dell/EMC CX500 SAN network in our DR site.  Although it is not in the list HCL has anyone had experience of the use of this SAN with ESX 4.0?

  Thank you

  Euan

  I don't expect any problems with the CX500. However I recommend phoning EMC and ask them if they are working on getting certified?

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• The use of frames with iscsi SAN

  Hello

  We are moving our warehouses of local DAS to a SAN iscsi in common.

  We will have two physical hosts (1 ESX 3.5 and an ESXi 3.5) with two iscsi devices (1 DELL MD3000i and 1 openfiler 2.2 "in the home-built') and two dedicated switches (a 16 ports GBit 1216T one one port 8 Gbps unmanaged Linksys Dlink).

  Both iscsi devices have connections ethernet redundand (Dell has 4 ports on 2 different controllers, openfiler has 2 ports), so I planned to distribute connections on two switches for redundancy.

  each ESX and ESXi physical hosts have 2 ethernet NIC dedicated to iscsi

  My doubts/questions are:

  -is the switch 'Office' of linksys OK for this configuration? Or should I get a second Dlink 1216 T?

  -J' need to have the Dell MD3000i to least performance that we conduct with the local SAS DAS storage.

  Can I activate "frames" switch and Dell MD300i? What ESX and ESXi? and linksys switch (will it work with thaat jumbo mtu)?

  -If I DO NOT activate the Jumbo on openfiles iscsi, will it work with standard MTU even if it is connected to the switches with active Jumbo?

  -should I 'team' toghether both connections ethernet in iscsi on the physical ESX/ESXi hosts?

  an another question I have is:

  -We currently have a LUN iscsi on device openfiler which is accessible using the initiator Microsoft iscsi sw inside a win2k03 virtual machine on the host ESX 3.5. Can I disable initiator Microsoft iscsi inside the virtual machine, log on to this LUN using ESX iscsi sw and have win2k03 to find all the data?

  Thanks in advance

  Guido

  Take a lok at it to your specific questions

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/107173

  And for an overview of ISCSI on ESX reading this, when you get a chance.

  http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/01/a-multivendor-post-to-help-our-mutual-iSCSI-customers-using-VMware.html#more

• Can I use a custom with iSCSI TCP/IP stack?

  We have a group of 3 guests identical at each connection to the network through 2 natachasery using 2 vmks SAN. Each vmk resides on a separate broadcast domain so they belong to separate vswitches. No link is used in accordance with the guide of vSphere.

  Thus, as the title suggests, should I use a separate TCP/IP stack custom for iSCSI vmks? or leave them in the stack by default (even if it is not an option to mark the vmks as IP storage)

  As long as your vmkernel iSCSI cards and their respective iSCSI targets are in the same subnet of layer 3, i.e. you are not routing iSCSI traffic (vmkX<->TargetSPX vmkY<->TargetSPY separate subnet design iSCSI does not, apply as never before the traffic is routed between networks), OR you do not want to configure static routes customized for iSCSI targets in other subnets then there is no point in using a separate TCP/IP stack.

  The main point to use the new functionality of ESXi 6 with several TCP/IP stacks is to have a completely separate battery routing table. Most of the admins were not able to handle very basic layer 3 static routing with itineraries dedicated by subnet, so they assigned default gateways on several vmkernel NIC and I wondered why things broke or has never worked.

  It also allows better control what interfaces to send data when you have several paths of layer 3 or subnets to communicate with, but it's largely irrelevant and already a point an integral part of an iSCSI network fine grain.

• How to check latency between the ESX host and SAN

  How to check latency between the ESXi host and SAN

  Hi friend

  Below KB will solve your need:

  VMware KB: Using esxtop to identify problems of performance of storage to ESX / ESXi (several versions)

  Under discussion can help you get more insight:

  Best values LVAD/cmd (ESXTOP)?

  Learn ESXTOP @ latency:

  vCenter and Esxtop to storage i/o bottlenecks to avoid

  Very detailed blog on ESXTOP:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/ESXTOP/

• Using enhaced vMotion with ESX4.1

  Hello

  I was wondering if it is possible to use the new improved features vMotion (migrate virtual machines without shared storage) with just the upgrade 5.1 vCenter.

  I have an environment where I have a vCenter 4.1 virtual and multiple ESX 4.1 classics that are not connected to a shared storage.

  To update the environment 5.1 I need a downtime of the virtual machines since I stop them, move them to another server, reinstall the ESX and ESXi 5.1.

  My question is, can I update the vCenter 5.1, the enhanced vMotion allows to move virtual machines from one ESX to another or I must have reinforced version 5.1 on the Hypersivor as well as for vMotion to work?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Don't know if I'm clear with your query

  "I didn't want to VCA feature, but the new feature of 5.1 through the VMs of unshared data warehouses and hosts without any downtime.

  This feature implemented in vCenter or is it tied host? »

  Rule of thumb: VC should always be equal to or greater than the version of esx/esxi

  To make use of the functionality of Migration without shared storage, we have need of ESX and VC in version 5.1.

• Cannot use local shared with replica storage of SSD

  So I had my environment from view for a while and everything works fine, but I have a question on how discovers works with the local replica SSD disks.  I read in the forums and in the document architecture and design if you use a local SSD to store your replicas (that will give you a performance gain), you cannot have your host in a cluster, thus renouncing HA and all the features that come with in a cluster of ESXi.

  However, I meet me a further restriction that I couldn't find any mention of in the forums or documentation, namely that you cannot store the clones in a shared storage if you have a replica on the local disk.  Whenever I got to the stage of commissioning and selected a FC LUN shared as the storage for the linked clones container, the pool would tell me that there not available and there no validation.  However, if I create a LUN that ONLY the host which I use to store the replica on the SSD has access to, then the commissioning is fine.  So my question is this: Why can't place clones related on the shared with a local replica disk storage?  I understand that I will not be able to use the features of the HA, but I would rather just a LUN shared for all clones related to the ease of administration (instead of having to create one for each host).  If someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong or explain to me why this is the case, it would be great.

  OK, I found the documentation indicating that "If clone related data warehouses are shared, the replica data store must be shared. Replicas can reside on a store of local data only if you configure clones all connected on warehouses of local data on the same ESX host. "Who is on page 14 of the document storage considerations see here: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/view_storage_considerations.pdf. However, it does not explain why this is, he said only that it is so.

  So as a result of this requirement, it is logical that linked clones on a present at a single ESXi host LUN would support, but without link clones on a LUN present at multiple ESXi hosts.

  Dave

• The FVO with ESX 3.0 files

  Hi all

  First of all, sorry if I didn't post this message on the right forum, but I did not know where to write.

  I have an ESX 3.0 with VM important about this. My goal is to migrate those virtual machines on a vCenter 4.1 with ESX 4.1 in order to upgrade this last ESX with a newer version. The problem is that I can't find on VMware Infrastructure 2.0 how to import OVF my VMs files. I can't do: file > export > export lists or maps to export... Is it possible to import OVF file with these versions of ESX and VMware Infrastructure?

  If not, what solution do I?

  Thank you very much.

  
  
  There is no ignorance, there is just a lack of experience

  Hi synchronized,

  The simplest solution would be to use VMware Converter to move you your old ESX to the new VM.

  Good luck!

  Concerning

  Franck

• 64-bit guest with ESX 4.0 operating system installation is not possible

  Hello guys,.

  I just installed two servers blade full-height M710 Dell with ESX 4.0.

  They definetely support 64-bit, otherwise I think that ESX 4.0 could not run on that host.

  Well, the installation worked fine, they are also connected to our vCenter charges upgraded to 4.

  I tried to install the virtual first with W2K8 R2 64 bit guest OS machine. But offers installing only the x 86 install wizard.

  VT (Virtualization Technology) is enabled in the BIOS.

  What wrong with my configuration or missing?

  Thanks for any response.

  Best regards

  Timo

  Try to select just 2008 R1 64-bit, not R2, it should work very well.

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• Pagefile on an ESX Server or SAN locoly

  Hello

  What is the best practice for file swap with VSphere.  On an ESX Server or SAN Locoly?

  Thank you

  Yan

  You mean, VM swap file? If you have enough shared storage space, now Exchange files within shared storage can reduce the latency and combined the need to move the files to Exchange during the vMotion & DRS.

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• VUM using up-to-date ESX 3.5 update 4.

  I have a 2 part question.

  1. I want to update our servers esx 3 update 1 update 4 through the Vmware update Manager.  I have a base created with ESX 3.5 Update 4 assigned to each Esx server ready for sanitation, but should I upgrade VCenter and VUM first before rolling on sanitation?

  2 would you be upgradet Esx 3.5 Update 4 or go straight to vSphere4?

  My current setup for info:

  Virtual Center 2.1

  Up1 ESX 3.5 on 3 x HP DL460c G1 16 gb

  EVA4100_1

  Windows 2003 Ent VM 20

  First of all, if you decide to keep your VI3, upgrade the server VC FRONT the ESX servers. It is not a good thing to have more recent than the server VC - ESXs and your UNIFIED messaging will also be more up-to-date.

  If you have the opportunity to upgrade to vSphere, go ahead - you have many more benefits by using the new features and etc.

  Marcelo Soares

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