Re: Thick vs Thin provisioning
Is their any way to make sure a group of servers have more privileges than others to prevent this from happening ?maybe utilizing resource pools?? We have alerts implemented in case file systems fill...
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You can reserve space only by using thick disks no other methods exist. You should also keep in mind the following things:- if you take snapshots, they occupy disk space as well. Initially delta disk...
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Thanks so much for getting back to me We are using HPE VSA to create a virtual SAN using the internal drives.they are thick provisioned on the SAN side. most of our guests are RHEL 5 servers so it's...
View ArticleSpace still used after converting to Thin provisioning
Hello All So I had a VM that I migrated from an older ESX server to a new ESX 6.5 serverit was migrated initially using thick provisioning.the drive is 80G and only 15G was being used so I decided to...
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> is there a way to zero out the unused space on the drive without harming the existing data??yes - inside the redhat log in as root and go to every mounted partition.Then create a dummyfile like...
View ArticleSnapshots retained during a migration
Hello guys, i have to move a set of VMs from VC1 to VC2 and as they are liked clones ( i need to move the VM + a single snapshot for each machine) i have to keep the snaps.I tried vSphere replication,...
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Thank you so much for replying to me regarding this. So just to be clear on the RedHat Linux server cd to every mount point and run the following command dd if=/dev/zero of=dummy-file bs=1M; rm...
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You'll need to transport the folder full of files from source to destination and re-register the VMX file in inventory. That should preserve the linked clones.
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dont change the bs=1M - it will write 1mb blocks until the mountpoint complains that there is no more free space.dd will abort then and immediatly after that the dummy-file gets deleted
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this is great!thank you so much After this finishes I delete the file then I would need to storage vmotion to another datastore for the changes to be seen correct??
View ArticleVMware ESXi 6.5.0 intaller fails to recognize Intel Xeon D-1541 x552 NIC
I am installing VSphere Hpervisor 6.5.0 Update 1 to a Intel Xeon D-1541 based server. It is setup to do PXE UEFI install. I am able to boot from the D-1541 embedded X522 NIC. However, the installer...
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If the firmware is late enough, you may need ixgbe.
View ArticleRe: VMware ESXi 6.5.0 intaller fails to recognize Intel Xeon D-1541 x552 NIC
I have downloaded this package but how do I create the the driver for installer i.e. something similar to "net_ixgb.v00" In the driver package I see only the vib file....
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You'll have to use image builder to inject that VIB and then use the resulting image in your PXE configuration.
View ArticleRe: Space still used after converting to Thin provisioning
Yep - I would use vmkfstools -i current.vmdk new.vmdk -d thin.But svmotion should do the same.
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Hello, Did someone test with 6.0 or 6.5 build with IBM HS23 blade? Any progress? We still have network glitch with ESXI build 5.5
View ArticleI cant upgrade last ESXi
Hello. I installed the free versión ESXi that can be found in download web. I needed to customize the iso adding a net driver. Now its ok. But i find ESXi-Customizer-PS and it download the last versión...
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Verify that you have a driver for your storage controller. ESXi 6.5 doesn't support the same hardware as ESXi 6.0.
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Hello, sorry but i think i have explanated bad way. Both installations are 6.5 The installation i have installed now from VMWare downloads web is the built 6.5a (4887370) and the one i cannot install...
View ArticleHow to get DCUI window in text mode
I am installing EXSi in text mode. After succesful installation VMWare boots but I am not able to get to the DCUI menu. Is there a hidden key sequence that I need to use? this what I get below. This...
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