SAN LUN configuration - VMware Technology Network VMTN
Mar 18, 2008 · Hello All, Just have some quick questions. Was wondering what everyone else is doing out there. 1. What raid level do you use for your SAN luns? 2. Is it better to create multiple small luns, and spread out the host over them, or one big lun to house all your vm hosts? 3. Typically, how many...
Expanding LUN SAN space - VMware Technology Network VMTN
Sep 16, 2006 · I've doubled the size of my SAN LUN from 200GB to 400GB, and had hoped to put a new VMFS partition in that space. However, when I go Add Extent in my SAN storage the "Current Disk Layout" part of the Wizard warns that my current disk layout will be destroyed. Other posts in the forum seemed to sugg...
iSCSI SAN LUN's setup? - VMware Technology Network VMTN
Apr 27, 2009 · Hi guys, Umm too many options.... grin Where do I start. I have an iSCSI SAN (openfiler) it's a ~7TB RAID 5 setup. How do I go about serving up to ESXi from the iSCSI SAN. I have 4 servers all as hosts. I've already figured I don't serve up one big LUN, so how do I do this? Do I carve up the SAN ...
ESX 3.5 upgarde missing SAN LUN - VMware Technology Network …
Feb 11, 2008 · Hi everyone, I have a cluster of 2 hosts running DRA and HA on ESX 3.0.1 and VC 2.5. They share 3 SAN LUN's with VM's spread over all 3 LUN's. I put one host in maint. mode and did a fresh install of ESX 3.5. Everything seemed to work well except i couldn't join it back to the cluster. I then fo...
vcenter 4 on SAN LUN or local storage?
Sep 22, 2009 · Hey guys, I am no expert so I wanted to know, what is the best practise? Should the vcenter sit on the lun including all physical disk mapping data or on local storage of the server? Please assist. Thanks RJ PS: Does it matter where the physical disk mapping data lives, on lun or local sto...
Removing SAN LUN? - VMware Technology Network VMTN
Feb 21, 2009 · I want to remove a LUN that's assigned to our ESX 3.5 cluster. It's one of several, and is on a Clariion AX4 FC SAN, if that matters. There are no VM's or VMDK's on it, I'm assuming I go into vCenter, Configuration/Storage and remove it, then on the AX4 un-assign the LUN, then do a re-scan through...
Mapped SAN LUN set to Virtual Compatibility Mode
Apr 18, 2007 · I have a mapped SAN LUN set to "Virtual Compatibility Mode" for a Windows 2003 cluster node VM guest. I did so, because when I was going through the VM set up, it said that this will enable me to snapshot the VM. However, the option to …
New ESX 4.1(i) deployment and best SAN LUN arrangement
Oct 6, 2011 · Hi, Is it better to have a few large LUNs for VMWare storage or lots of little ones? I have an EqualLogic PS6500E which can allocated, IIRC, a max LUN size of about 15TB and i have 35TB total. Cheers, Tim
Add a SAN LUN as a RDM to a Virtual Machine
Jun 1, 2018 · Whenever we provision a new platform a number of LUNs are created on our SAN to support the new databases that the platform will need - typically 30+ per DB server. The naming convention of the volumes are uniforim, only 2 digits in the name change from platform to platform. As the volume names are ...
Slow Vm cloning and deploy with fc san lun to lun
Nov 11, 2011 · Hi, there my problem Vcenter 4.1 on Vm 2vcup and 4gb ram Production cluster 3 ESX 4.0 update 1 host , dual xeon 5550 with 196 gb of ram running 126 total vm Host using 40% copu and 75% memory connected to san using 2 fc hba per host 1 standalone test esx host 4.0 update 1 running no vm dual xeon ...