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VMWare vSphere 5: 4 pNICs for iSCSI vs. 2 pNICs
New SAN for me, never used before: it's an IBM DS3512, dual controller with a quad 1GbE NIC per controller that a client bought and needs help setting up.
Hosts (x2) have 8 pNICs and while I usually ...
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Cannot enable iSCSI port binding without adding a physical NIC to the vSwitch
Why can I not have a purely virtualized SAN in vSphere 5? I cannot enable the iSCSI port binding option (it is greyed out and unchecked) or add the VMkernel to the iSCSI software host bus adapter ...
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Is vSphere 5 compatible with an OpenIndiana/Napp-it iSCSI datastore?
My hostd.log file on vSphere 5 says that partedUtil is timing out while trying to write the partition table on an iSCSI target being served from OpenIndiana/napp-it.
I read that sized over 2TB give ...
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How to remove inaccessible iSCSI LUN from vSphere ESXi 4.1/5 with Storage I/O Control enabled?
I am testing out a iSCSI SAN solution in my vSphere environment and have been adding/removing LUNs on the SAN host while some were left connected on ESXi hosts. I had enabled Storage I/O Control on ...
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Setup of HP ProCurve 2810-24G for iSCSI?
I have a pair of ProCurve 2810-24G that I will use with a Dell Equallogic SAN and Vmware ESXi.
Since ESXi does MPIO, I am a little uncertain on the configuration for links between the switches. Is a ...
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Are there any benefits to using a Distributed vSwitch for iSCSI?
I am designing our vSphere farm - we'll be migrating from ESX 3.5 to 4.1. I plan to set up a new farm using ESXi 4.1, and move the Virtual Machines on the 3.5 farm into it by shutdown, then import.
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Flow Control - Where do you enable it?
In the testing/playing phase with a bunch of new SAN/Server kit.
I have 2 x Procurve 2910 switches dedicated to iSCSI/vMotion (with a 10gbps fibre link between them), 2 x vSphere hosts (each with ...
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vSphere HA - Dealing with storage hba/link failure?
I'm looking at putting in a small cluster spanning two locations on the same campus.
The vSphere hosts in each location would have a vSwitch connected to the production LAN, and I'd also be using a ...
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Enable Flow Control on a VMware vSwitch
I can't figure out how to enable Flow Control on a VMware vSwitch. I've been talking with Equallogic and VMware, and they said we need it on for better performance. I can't find out how to enable it ...
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iSCSI performance questions
apologies for the long-winded post in advance...
Attempting to troubleshoot some iSCSI sluggishness on a brand new vSphere deployment (still in test).
Layout is as such:
3 VSphere hosts, each with ...
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Rough estimate for speed advantage of SAN-via-fibre to san-via-iSCSI when using VMware vSphere
We are in the process of setting up two virtualization servers (DELL R710, Dual Quadcore Xeon CPUs at 2.3 Ghz, 48 GB RAM) for VMware VSphere with storage on a SAN (DELL Powervault MD3000i, 10x 500 GB ...
