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• How to present a drive on a Virtual Machine of the SAN storage?

  Hi all

  My Question is that suppose we have three Machines virtual VM1 and VM2 VM3 respectively running on an ESX host. Now, we would like to introduce a SAN storage disk that is HP EVA VM02.

  How we would present disk for this particular virtual machine.

  Kind regards

  Khurram Shahzad

  A VM disk can be a vmdk file or disc RDM.

  With vmdk, you take the space of a VMFS data store, which is a logical unit number which could be simple presented to the ESX (and can be shared across ESX) and is formatted by ESX.

  With RDM you take a raw SAN disk, you must always present at ESX (as a VMFS data store), but you must add it to your VM without ESX format.

  André

• Virtual as a Quorum SAN storage? How to configure?

  Hi all

  I install the VMWare Storage as my virtual SAN on VM Workstation Sun but I wonder now how to get the cluster configuration wizard as storage for the quorum? Anyone done this before in a test laboratory? I'll put up Exch 2003 Ent and you want just the cluster to see Sun storage, but I'm stuck.

  Well, maybe not a direct solution for your situation, but you can try called StarWindiSCSI SAN product. It of free for the construction of virtual San and a lot of documentation here.

• Virtual machines deployed on VSAN without selected with THICK disk storage policy

  Hello

  We had an admin build 50 VMs on our data VSAN store but did not choose the VSAN storage policy while he got the default which allows you to have the THICKNESS of the disks provisioned

  I have chnaged any of the virtual machines to use the VSAN storage policy (which uses a thin) but the virtual machine is still using all the space

  Is there a way to make virtual machines recover white space, now they have a VSAN storage strategy?

  Yes - I have to agree with Duncan. I don't think that there is a way to return/reduce the size.

  An idea is, if you have additional storage, Storage vMotion VM to NFS or VMFS, converting to thin and then back to VSANS with a policy that doesn't have a "thickness".

  Try it with a VM - see if it works.

  A bit of a drag, I know, but I can't think of any other casual way.

  HTH

  Cormac

• VSAN guests can access the FC SAN storage at the same time?

  Soon we will invest in new ESXi hosts and we want to design them for the ability to VSAN. But since VSAN is a fairly new technology, we also want the same hosts to act as our old guests and have warehouses of data in our SAN (FC SAN attached storage) environment.

  Host VSANS have access to VSAN and FC SAN storage at the same time?

  What advantages and disadvantages do you see with this design?

  Yes, there is nothing to stop an ESXi participating both host a cluster VSAN, and also had access other storage taken in charge of protocols such as NFS, FC, FCoE or iSCSI.

  However, you will not be able to use the LUNS or Volumes presented on NFS, FC, FCoE or iSCSI for storage VSAN.

  VSAN requires local disks to build the VSAN data store.

  I guess the only concern would be the additional management that comes with having many types of different storage, but this is true even if VSAN wasn't in the picture.

• Open a virtual machine in a san on 2 different esx hosts

  Hi, I have a Vsphere essentials, 2 Esx hosts and an Iscsi san, I need to connect the virtual machine in the two esx hosts (I know I don't have FT and HA), in order to launch the virtual machine never the first Esx and if first host, does not have the virtual machine on the second esx.

  I tryied to connect the virtual machine to the second host, but the Vsphere client tell me that's not possible, because the virtual machine is already present at the first ESX.

  There is a way to establish this setting?

  For some it may depend on your application, if you can run multiple instances of the same application? If it is a web application? It stores its data in files on the server, or it stores it in a database locally? or remote database?

  -VM on a local storage of the army, would not really recommended if you need so that it starts the VMS on host b quickly.

  -If the two hosts have access to permits it storage even say and what the application can really be run only once.  He could only save it to HostA and if it fails at some point that it will be released the lock, have it on the virtual machine and you will be able to manually register the virtual machine to host b and start the virtual machine.  However, you will not be able to really get ahead.

  -HA out of here, as if a host or power failure shuts on HostA, HostB will feed into the virtual machine down automatically

  -FT - here in the spectrum creates a VM ghost on the secondary host in levels (what happends on HostA happens on host b)

  -Another option to the other end of things has implemented Microsoft MSCS Clustering with iSCSI support I think.  You can run VMS with iSCSI to your San and clustered like this application.  Just note that with iscsi client it uses some CPU to create iscsi packets.

  -Web Cluster, Cluster database.    It doesn't matter if one of the nodes of web servers or the database nodes go down really that the user will be redirected to another node in the cluster so really no need for HA/FT.

  Of course, with some of the here above are expenses and pro / con of and there's a few ways to increase availability.

• EqualLogic 'virtual storage manager' does not appear in viClient

  I have installed and configured all the options necessary to HITVE and the 'virtual storage manager' does not pull through?

  On my home screen, to the title of "Solutions and Applications" - it indicates that three of the components by default HITVE, but not Virtual Storage Manager?

  Any ideas?

  I have HITVE not published, restarted, rebooted vCentre, solves all Commons - but still no module?

  VMware Storage Manager VSM v3.5, (formerly ASM/EV) was published on the web.  It's much improved then I would say that you give it a try.

• Slower performance of the SAN storage report

  Hi all

  A new type of SAN storage added to the replacement of the old SAN storage environment. After presenting new data warehouses and the migration of virtual machines, users report slow performance. What might must be made to the VM file system to solve this problem... THX.

  Hi Anthony

  Run a block alignment which requires a restart of the VM (it may not be required on newer operating systems

  If it is help full please mark this as useful or correct... Thank you

• 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

• iSCSI SAN storage

  Hello

  I am trying to build a practice for VCP certification test lab.  I use Workstation 7.1.4 and ESXi installed on the same host.  Can anyone recommend a good 'free' iSCSI SAN storage virtual appliance?  I went through the market, but wanted to get a recommendation from experts.

  Thank you

  Kim

  There are various products that you can use. E.g. Openfiler, Starwind, open-e or VSA from HP. For the last HP offers especially for VMware Player/workstation demo version.

  André.

• 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

• Displacement of vCenter Server Local to SAN storage

  I currently have vCenter server running inside a virtual machine on ESX. Today, I realized that it is on a local storage instead of SAN storage, which means I'm in trouble if this host ever goes down. Has anyone left VC local stroage for before SAN? What is the best way to achieve this? I want to keep on the same host, I want to just move the storage. Any suggestion would be appreciated!

  Thank you!

  Well, your DB is running on the same VM?  See cloning is a feature of vCenter, but if stop you your VM vCenter, you lose the ability to clone. You can probably copy the files using something like WinSCP, but you'd have to power down your instance of vCenter, make a note of which hosts its operation on.  Remove the vCenter VM for local stocks, do not delete yet.  Take the new files you have copied during a shared storage, navigate and do a right-click on the .vmx and add to the inventory, and follow the prompts.  Once your instance comes back online, you can delete the files from local storage.

  Another suggestion would be if DB is separate, create a new instance and point to your existing DB

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/5850444

• Uninstall IE and set another web browser such as Chrome and FireFox by default by using Group Policy

  Hello

  Please someone can instruct me on how to uninstall IE and set another web browser such as Chrome and FireFox by default by using Group Policy. Your help would be much appreciated.

  Kind regards

  RocknRollTim

  Hi Tim,.

   

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  I wish to inform you that, group policy can only be changed if you are using Windows 7 Professional on your computer.

   
  Referring to your other posts, I see that your computers are on a domain network, we have a specific forum for the computers in the domain and they are experts in this field of investigation and would be in a better position to address the concerns. So refer to the link below and post your query on the TechNet Forums.
  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home
   
  Hope this information helps, just answer for all the help on Windows.

• Oracle Rac on San storage

  Hello

  We are at the heart of the definition of a process for installation of 2 node to a san storage device.  Oracle 11.2 on Rhel 5.

  What is the process of implementation recommended for shared storage.

  We want the mirroring to stay at the storage level.

  * NFS without ASM

  * NFS with ASM

  * LUN with ASM

  * LUN without ASM

  All other as appropriate.

  I went through the documentation, it gives options, however, does not tell best practices.

  Thanks in advance everybody and apologize if there is already a post about this and I repeat it.

  The only choice, I will focus on what is LUN (fiber or Infiniband fabric layer) with the ASM.

  And no ASMLib. (optional, not required)

  Set the devices property LUN via udev. Configure logical device for ASM using MPIO.

  I'm going to call any other method, below.

• vSphere 5 drs through san storage separated 2

  Would hi be possible installation storage drs 2 SAN storage?

  To add to that, Yes, it shouldn't be a problem. You can use Storage DRS through multiples of SEM, as long as all guests can see the LUN. Keep in mind however, DRS of storage is not particularly aware of the disks you join, so ideally you want to keep all quite similar - I would not, for example, use the DRS of storage in a cluster with disks SATA and SAS - he would be an impact of significant performance according to the records for the servers had put on which LUN...

  Storage DRS will separate disks if must - if you have several drives assigned to a server, they could potentially find themselves on LUN in a storage DRS cluster. Really, this isn't a bad thing if all of the LUNS is at the same level of performance, just something to know...