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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

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• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• VMware View load balancing

  In the scenario that you have two servers to view security and two connection view servers... What happens if one of the servers connection goes down - how security server with which it is associated know to stop traffic on this leg so that all connections use high security server and the connection to the server pair? Otherwise, it makes no sense to have two security servers you get no true dismissal through the load balancer.

  For balancing the load in front of security servers, you should healthcheck servers security with 'GET favicon.ico HTTP/1.0 '. In this way, if a security server is out of service or its pairs login server is down, traffic will route to the other security servers.

  Traditional providers of load balancer documentation includes details on their implementation of this way to get complete fault tolerance.

  Mark

• 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

• Cluster Exchange 2003 on ESX4i on one physical host, use local storage

  I'm trying to implement a 2 node Exchange 2003 on a physical ESX4i cluster use local storage.  I have 2 network cards, assigned drives to be on a different SCSI controller, when I set up the first node of the cluster, I am not able to select the disc that I put in place for the Quorum, it will only install on the C drive, which is the OS disc. What should I do to be able to use the shared disks configured for the cluster.

  So, once the scan is complete you should have a section called "Quorum resource Detection", is there something there?  By default, Windows attempts to use the smallest available partition that is not the system partition, which is larger than 500 MB and a shared bus.  This last point is key, see photo.  It's the only thing I can think of for that is why you wouldn't see the quorum...

  -alex

• Upgrade of a single host with Shared Storage

  Getting ready to upgrade my ESX 3.5 hosts to vSphere.  I've already upgraded to vCenter.  I have two hosts managed by vSphere, and both hosts have a storage area of channel shared fiber that guests are on.  Each server can see all shared data stores.  I want to upgrade a single host first, then later upgrade the other host.  I've migrated the guests running to 2nd host whose I am not upgraded at the moment.

  My question is can I upgrade the first host using Update Manager?  What happens to guests in data warehouses that run on 2nd hosts?  Will they be affected?

  > My question is can I upgrade the first host using Update Manager?

  Yes.

  > What will happen to customers in data stores that run on 2nd hosts? Will they be affected?

  They will not be affected.

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• Configure a cluster of vsphere with 2 host with internal storage shared via HP LeftHand - doubts

  Hi, I'm trying to create a two-node esxi cluster. These nodes will share their internal storage with HP Lefthand Appliance (HP StoreVirtual VSA). I need the first steps to create the cluster, or better, the macro blocks, IE:

  -install esxi on each node
  -install Virtual Center and create the vmware cluster

  -Deploy the VM VSA...

  I have a lot of doubts because of the reason why I can't have (installation of the HP guide said) virtual machines on other than the VM VSA itself VSA data store. How can I configure things? Creating first two warehouses of data, deploy VCenter on a data store, create the cluster, deploy VSA VM on the other data store...

  Can you help me please?

  DL380G5 host as the location for the ODM is ok, but you may need to upgrade the host in any case since v12 FOM requires ESXi 5.0 or newer.

  ... what happens if the update fails and the hypervisor does not start more?

  I know we can't answer a question with a question. Anyway, how do save you virtual machines on this host now?

  It is true that the VSA VM cannot be migrated, but I can migrate the VCenter to a to another data store when I will have created the DATA of VSA data store (one that the hypervisor consider as an iSCSI target), I'm good?

  I'm sure that it is correct. Unless I'm missing something, vCenter Server is just another virtual machine running on the cluster VSA VSA does not require vCenter Server to run.

  André

• Install ESX 3.5 with local storage

  I just install ESX 3.5 on a database server that I will use for failover only.  The server has an internal 750 GB internal SATA drive.  I have install ESX 3.5 through the wizard very well.  But when I connect to the new server with the gateway Client, I get an error that says - "VMware ESX Server has no storage persistent." - see attachment.  It gives me the ability to create a data store.  My options are disk/LUN, NFS or diagnosis.  I don't see where to add a local drive as a data store.  What am I missing here?  Is there some partitioning step that I missed when installing ESX.

  Those are the IDE drives?  VMFS not supported on the ide.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• 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 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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