Re: local storage vmfs on megaraid, stripe size for best performance
It doesn't matter to ESXi - it matters to your guest OS IO patterns. Those are what should dictate.... But even then, with the exception of synthetic benchmarks, it rarely makes much of a difference.
View ArticleRe: Dynamic Disk Across VMFS-3 and VMFS-5 Volumes
JohnDadesky wrote: Would their be any potential side effects from a dynamic disk spanning drives running on different versions of VMFS?Not for Windows, but if you have a mix of ESX 4 and 5 that could...
View ArticleRe: Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes
Afaik sharing virtual disks is only supported with Microsoft Clusters, which are shared-nothing clusters. I'm not sure how Oracle handles shared disks and whether this will work. You may wan to take a...
View Articlelooking for a report as below
Greeting, I am looking for a report: 1. Information for ASSIGNED number of vCPUs to VM.2. Information for ASSIGNED Memory to VM.3. Information for hours for vm ON vs OFF hours4. Information for...
View ArticleRe: Failed SSH Check
patched to latest edition. start a new run, it stop, I can not find anything in the results folder, what is wrong? thanksnewbie File in c:\vmmark2\tmp\ VMmarkMSG-warnings VMmark Msg::Message TimeOut :...
View ArticleRe: local storage vmfs on megaraid, stripe size for best performance
wouldn't it make sense, the more vm's, the larger the stripe would need to be for performance? I just don't understand the vmfs layer, especially with changes in vmfs5. I would think the more disk...
View ArticleRe: Any options for 2 vCenters?
I suspected someone would say that. Seems like a waste resources but I guess thats the direction for VMs, why build one when you can build 2, patch 2, etc... Thanks for the help!
View ArticleRe: VMDK Ran Out Of Space - All Other VMDK Drive Shares Become Inaccessible -...
Hi Andre, We are using thin provisioning at both the ESX and SAN level. I think you are right in that this must have been what occurred. Obviously thick provisioning the average volume really isn't an...
View ArticleRe: VUM Plugin 5.1.0 service is unavailable
Unfortunately no. Support is working on the problem.
View ArticleRe: Upgrade 3.5 to ESXI 5.0
Hi, It is not possible to upgrade directly from 3.5 to 5.0, you have to do an upgrade to 4.x and then 5.0, But unfortunately 4.x has reached the End of Availability and End of Support Life as of August...
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Re: New user with questions about VMware Workstation v9
1. Although this may be irrelevant and even normal, the VMware logs always complain that "C:\Users\msm\AppData\Roaming\VMware\config.ini" cannot be found ("msm" is my user account). Sure enough, that...
View ArticleRe: Usually we share the Internet from Mac on Guest OS. But how to pass...
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View ArticleRe: VMDK not included in the OVA
That is what we do right now. However we want to vary the second disk size depending on certain parameters. If the disk size can be varied in the OVF without packaging VMDK then it gives us great...
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Re: How to speed up vSphere Web Client
Hello Mr. Krogloth, Long time no see What actions exactly seem slow? How do you measure it?Do you see a better performance when you open the Web Client on the server where it is installed (Google...
View ArticleRe: Unable to run vbscripts during pre/post/un stages
Powershell policy is good, vbscript is basic - just a hello world. no clue what's wrong, workflow is just stuck at post provision job, and no powershell process is ever called.nothing in logs. EPI...
View ArticleRe: Updating Storage drivers on Host
I'm guessing that the only options I have are 1. to do a total reinstall of the entire system (which I prefer not to do) or 2. Get a duplicate system with 2 SD cards and reinstall ESXi on them with the...
View ArticleDHCP Configuration
I have setup a new scope for View using MS AD. I aslo created the new VLAN and presented that to the switches and to vcenter. If I configure the VM I am setting up for View with a static ip then...
View ArticleRe: Updating Storage drivers on Host
You're operating under the assumption that the only fix is to install whatever driver Dell is insisting their ESXi image only includes. I'm wondering what that driver is, and what driver is currently...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
Below is the process I used to migrate all of my VMs from one iSCSI datastore to another iSCSI datastore. Both datastores were connected to the same ESXi host (ESXi 5.1.0). I also used this same method...
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