Re: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
Dear Alan, Enable SSH on the esxi server in vpshere client (Configuration -> Security Profile -> Service Properties -> SSH options -> start) Start a SSH client (putty is a good one for...
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Thanks for the prompt reply! OK I can confirm exactly what you are finding - unfortunately! So it looks like it is normal behaviour, which is a disappointment! A bigger disappointment is the fact that...
View ArticleRe: 4.1 to 5.5 Upgrade Help
Welcome to the Community - I take it you are not using the shared storage or vCenter - vSphere Update Manager requires vCenter.In regards to having both ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 4.1 running is you will have...
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It certainly is a common request. Only logic I can see behind them doing nothing for years and years now is the fact that EMC bought them; maybe they want people to waste tons of disk space so they...
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Re: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
It's a lot less work when you have live storage migration @briggsb : Did you also confirm that it does work on your ISCSI datastore?
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It did indeed run from the iSCSI datastore. Though to be fair, I didn't wait for it to finish to see the results, it was a test DS...
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Hello, Thank you, I do not seem to be using the shared storage or Vcenter. I currently just have the Vsphere client installed on my machine. So if I popped the disc in to the Host, then chose the...
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For sure; if we couldn't live migrate, it would be a nightmare dealing with this. We can do our shrinking without taking the guests offline. They've really dropped the ball on this issue, and I've...
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That is pretty much is it - you can also check out the upgrade for further information http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-55-upgrade-guide.pdf
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Re: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
Still keeps me wondering why the offline punch-hole method works on local and iscsi datastores and not on NFS datastores. I will try to find out if vmware will ever support this. Thanks for testing...
View ArticleVery poor HDD performance
HiI have a problem with my server setup. HP ML350 G6 12MB RAM ESXi 4.1P410i 512MB:3x146GB 10k 2.5 RAID5 for win 2008 sbs, win 2003, win xp2x600GB 10k 2.5 RAID1 for dataP210 in PCI slot:1x2TB 7.2k for...
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Issues like this are often related to a missing or faulty BBWC battery. Without the battery, the controller will default to write-trough mode, which is significantly slower than write-back mode with...
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I've already found your explanation of write back vs write trough mode.I have backup battery only for internall P410i. P212 has no backup battery so I guess it's in write trough mode. But what is...
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I would check network connections for something like a speed/duplex issue.
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That bad performance is also when copying within server disks not via network. Also network is fine. I can download files from data raid at 50-100 MBps rate but from backup drive at 1-3 MBps. I...
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Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
My ESXI 5.5 Server reboots when I shutdown or restart in the Windows7 VM.In bios I have selected the internal graphics as forced so that the ESXI machine uses the internal gfx card. Then I have...
View ArticleUpdate Manager 4.1 (ESXi 4.1) ( '[Errno 12] Timeout: '))
Can anyone offer some assistance?.... I'm having trouble staging the patches to the ESXi hosts. The patch definitions do download successfully. The VUM DB is on a separate SQL server, and the DSN is...
View ArticleTemporary umount datastore
Hi to all, this is my first post, i'm glad to be here! Here my question: Scenario: I have a cluster with 10 Esxi hosts (4.1 latest build), connected to those hosts a FC storage. From this storage i...
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Re: Temporary umount datastore
Hello theire, so if i understood correctly "only" the RDM's are affected?. So if yes > i would also use that Way beeing able to mask the Storage. Because Problem is if you shutdown Stroage without...
View ArticleChange block tracking (CTK) is supported for this VM but has been declined....
I am having trouble with a VMware image level client in an EMC Avamar backup. So far, we have not been able to find any information about this message in the backup log file. It is causing the backup...
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