vSphere 5.0 - Cluster Storage Chassis mounted - HA behavior?

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• VMware Vsphere HA (problem of storage in common) and problem of band network bandwidth

  Hi all

  I am setting up VMware VSphere HA on ESXI 6.0

  I have 5 hosts running, each host has 2 management networks main network 1 vMotion and 1 network card for balancing with the management network. (each NIC 1Gbit uplink)

  I also attached to each card a FC (Fiber Channel) connected to HP 3PAR storage.

  each host have 1 TB or 2 TB Fiber Channel-attached storage.

  When I was setting up the AP he stated that he did not have any shared how storage can I allow other hosts to see each store data as a shared storage. NB: when I go vsphere client to web I see all the storage of each host.

  I also want to allow FT on a virtual machine, I have also a problem of bandwidth insuffisent or something. .

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  also another question: should I export volumes (LUNS) to all hosts in the AP? (in fact I exported each volume to each host separately) for example:

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  When I try to activate the FT on the VM I the following warning attached

  This message was edited by: coolirc attached image FT problem

  There are memory FT requirements compatible VM is through two virtual, primary and secondary computers. so it will consume the same amount of resources of both ESXi hosts.

  VM with 10 GB of RAM allocation, turn on FT booking VM is now 10 GB RAM, so 10 GB + VMkernel consumption General host running primary VM and same amount of the host that is running with secondary VM. on top of this admission control in support of the failures of host we are going to tolerate so say primary VM host fails, then secondary VM becomes the new primary and triggers a new high school to be created and powered in one of the other host survivor in your HA cluster but which will be successful only when you have sufficient resources available to satisfy a reservation.

  your source host has 16 GB of RAM and one of the destination host also got 16 GB of RAM, so if you try to activate pi after disabling admission control on your cluster policy, I think that it should allow you to activate FT without errors. [if it still does not work so if possible, turn off all other virtual machines for free resources or to try to reduce their reservation manually if they are running with a reservation and try again.]

  with admission control, the necessary resources would be even higher.

  screenshot of Cluster summary reports that you have 4 guests in it and the memory resources available about 30 GB to 60 GB total memory. But isn't always the right figure, if you go to the monitor-> book resources, is where you will find actual "ready reserve", it's the right amount of reserve memory that you will be able to use across several virtual machines, you run in your cluster.

  I tried 2 vCPU vm FT in vSphere 6, works very well, but never tried with Hardware version 8, in your case, your virtual machine is hardware version 8, although I'm not sure if it is mandatory to have the hardware version 11 VM for FT so ideally it should work, but virtual hardware version if possible vm upgraded to 11.

• vSphere 5.5: "the storage service is not initialized.

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  I have 2 Wrapper files in "C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Profile-Driven" of storage. Wrapper and Wrapper1.

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  The wizard of storage increase all the SBA has traveled each off, expanded the size of storage on local server data warehouses and looked like there finish but got stuck in this 'warning' and does not increase the actual sizes of VSA data store.

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  I'm not too entrust all e/s was arrested, would take right up and finishing, so looking to see if there are other options.

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  We upgrade to vSphere 5 However there is one critical application that is not supported on vSphere 5.  That's why I was asked to investigate the possibility of running a cluster HA/DRS with vSphere 4.1 and vSphere hosts 5.

  I realize that this configuration is not ideal, but we don't have enough resources to afford dedidcating a crowd of vSphere 4.1 to perform this unique virtual machine.

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  2. next, then virtual machines that are running on vSphere hosts 5 and are running the latest version of the VMtools vMotioned on hosts vSphere 4.1?

  3 are there other concerns, that you can think of running with some hosts on vSphere 4.1 and some on vSphere 5 for long periods of time?

  Thank you.

  1 - OK

  2 - No, don't update the tools to version 5.0 if you host esx 4.1 hae

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• MS ESXi 4.1 cluster storage paths

  does anyone have any experience of MS clusters and the loss of manipulation of storage paths. I am doing a project to migrate from a storage Fibre path at a time. We note that MS clusters do not tolerate the loss of paths during storage migration (there are four paths). It is a cluster of SQL 2008 R2. While checking the settings, I found that the strategy of selection of the path is alternating. I found research that round-robin, is not supported on MS clusters (separate hosts). I guess that my first job will be to change the strategy of selection of the path on the physical RDM. I could change the PSP to the path fixed (active/inactive V7000 SAN), using the vcenter client. From what I see, this can be done without stopping the virtual machine? Change the PSP will improve resilience? I could switch also the cluster a virtual machine that is in a different case for the change in storage, to reduce the impact.

  From what I see, this can be done without stopping the virtual machine?

  His trunk to change RR to fixed during execution. Whereas it is set to MRU is not recommended.

  Ref: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1011340

  Change the PSP will improve resilience?

  It depends on the recommendation of the storage provider. We have to learn the PSP recommended for your storage vendor or VMware HCL. It varies from the version of ESXi.

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?action=base&deviceCategory=San

  For example: FIXED (VMW_PSP_FIXED) is recommended for following Eualogic iSCSI sotrage PSP.

  Manufacturer:	EqualLogic
  Type of table:	iSCSI

  Model:	PS70E

• Add the VSA Cluster storage

  Hi all

  I read somewhere that its does not seem possible to upgrade the size of storage for the cluster of VSA in ver1.0? For example, if install us with HDD 6 and thereafter wanted to add another hard drive 2 or more to enlarge the data store, it is not possible?

  It looks like the poster others updated the link to the correct article KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2001339

  VSA 1.0 does not support add more storage to a VSA cluster after installation. You cannot add additional hard disks to the ESXi hosts and you cannot add multiple members of the cluster VSA. Make sure that your VSA cluster has enough storage to meet your needs of environment before you install the cluster VSA.

  To increase the capacity of its VSA 1.0, you must re-create the cluster.

  André

• vSphere Eval question on storage

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  I have 4 servers to assess vSphere and here's what I have to work with, where I am and my question on storage.

  3 HP DL380 G5 servers with 8 GB of ram each and 4x146GB discs

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  The server that is running under VM on two servers.

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  existing hardware, I have to install a configuration compatible HA, vMotion and DRB.  Again, by using the 4 servers with the

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  vCenter on 2 separate servers running in a reasonable way?

  Thanks for any help. My first attempt trying to configure ESX/Vsphere.

  Kind regards

  Paul

  StorMagic www.stormagic.com has a free virtual SAN for vSphere.

  You can create up to 2 TB per ESX with the free license.

  You should be able to test vSphere (HA, DRS, vMotion)

  However, I don't see that FT is not fully supported.

  Stan

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• Storage shared between cluster hosts

  Hello

  I have a number of hosts managed under a VC server clusters. I want to downgrade the ESX 3.5 cluster and spend all my virtual machines to my vSphere cluster. I intend to move the storage currently used by ESX 3.5 clusters as well.

  Is this OK (or supported) or even possible for me to do the following?

  1. attach the storage used by the cluster cluster vSphere ESX 3.5 (so it is folded in TWO clusters).

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  3. turn off the cluster of ESX 3.5.

  I guess it boils down to two questions.

  1. can you be shared between host cluster storage two?

  2. If you can, is it possible to vMotion between cluster hosts, assuming that all the vMotion compatibility checks are successful?

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  G

  Hello

  If you have a SAN vSphere-taking in charge, so there is no problem.

  According to the CRA on your 3.5/vSphere ESX CPU hosts, you might have problems with storage vmotion/vmotion. One way would be to enable CVS, however requiring all virtual machines to be powered off.

  But present the LUN 3.5 4.x guests and make a svmotion is not a problem if you have taken care of storage. (www.vmware.com/go/hcl).

  Then you can just vmotion (if you do not have CPU incompatibility) virtual machines to new hosts, or stop and move.

  VCP3/VCP4/VSP/VTSP/MCTS: Virtualization

• If we have 2 remote sites with the same shared storage, can we mount a drive shared on remote site?

  Dear Experts,

  If we have 2 remote sites with the same shared storage, can mount us a drive on remote site?

  • Assume that the oracle database is on the shared disk (for example HP 3PAR)
  • Primary Oracle server with storage as a common drive (storage shared on sites geographical apart) have all the files database.
  • failure, it is possible to mount the drive even at the remote site and mount the database oracle it?

  There must be no effect on the as it should the same disk that has dismantled master site.

  Thank you and best regards,

  IVW

  Thanks a lot mseberg

  Is it a design valid ?

  • We have remote sites and want to set up DR. As we only SE pare data is therefore no choice.
  • We think of the SAN replication option.

  Have you ever seen / configured such architecture or design?

  Can you please throw some light on this. Thanks in advance for your ideas.

  Thank you best regards &,.

  IVW

• Commissioning in a storage DRS cluster?

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  Someone at - it an example of flow which provisions in a cluster of DTS? Can it be part of a virtual Spec computer object, or the API still requires a data store named ultimately?

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  in this post, there's a script that unfolds in a pod of a cluster of SDR storage:

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• Best survey practice: tiering with different types of storage drives

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  Kind regards

  Don