Re: MSA 2050 storage question/issue
Hello,My understanding for VMotion of VMs is you must also be aware of the datastores the VMs are on and where you are attempting to migrate to. For example if you are moving the VM from datastore1 you...
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According to your picture, you're in a world of hurt on Pool B and not in dramatically better shape on Pool A. It's not a problem if you use all of your pool space if your volumes are fixed size and...
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Hi, yes i see now the voloumegroups are bigger than the physical disk... VG on Pool B is 13,3 TB total. wich is over 2,7 TB over the physical disk.... on Pool B ill try to make a spreadsheet, but im...
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It might be worth a call into VMWare support to see if they can help you determine if the failed migration is consuming any extra space and how to roll that back.You can also take a look at this...
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Deleted some VM's for about 200 gb. nothing happen on the pool thoug.. have set reclaimnation to high on datastores on Pool B. still reclaiming very slow. (100 mb every 10-15 minutes?)Thanks for the...
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Okay, so i used RVtool to see how much data each VM has ben given.5.6 TB thick disk total on Pool B, but on SAN, its still look "full" with the 10.6 TB Pool.. There must be some hidden data some place.
View ArticleRe: Change the port connector FC to iSCSi
There are any way to reset the default configuration (this storage is not in production)?If I put this controller in a 2040 and execute the command (set host-port mode iSCSI), then remove and put back...
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The personality of the SFP ports, on an MSA 1040, are burned in and hardcoded in build process. There is no way to change a 1040 from FC to iSCSI without buying completely new controllers.Sorry
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Okay, so status is right now that it has reclaimed 10 GB of storage. the good thing is that the storage dosent go down now. but its normal that the reclaim is so slow? i have set the reclaim to hight...
View ArticleMSA 2050 Jumbo Frame 'issue' - Best Practice guide wrong?
Hello AllWe have an MSA 2050 connected through it's own VLAN, via a HPE FF5700 to 5 HPE Gen10 ESX 6.7 servers.We have created the datastores in VM on the SAN.I have read the best practice guide for the...
View ArticleCan't ping both host ports on MSA 2050
Hi!I have two ProLiant DL380 Gen10 connected to a MSA 2050.I have setup all the iSCSI stuff in VMware 6.7 according to best practise.But when I try ping the host ports (A1 and B1) from the host A only...
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Great to hear things are improving. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of input on the speed in which VMWare can run the zero reclaim. It might be worth checking in with them to see if there is a way to...
View ArticleRe: Can't ping both host ports on MSA 2050
Hiare you connected via switch or direct?are both network cards in VMware connected to the same Vswitchfor ISCSI vmkernal network can have only one vmnic active.if you have two vmnics in the same...
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Hi,It's connected direct.And Yes on all the other questions.
View ArticleRe: Can't ping both host ports on MSA 2050
Hithis is what you should have in VMware is in the attached filesalso you should do use vmkping command to verify connectivityvmkping -I vmkX x.x.x.xalso add VMkernal ports to ISCSI software...
View ArticleRe: MSA2040 multipath config
Rafael,multipath.conf seems to be correct as per HPE guide.I have few queries:1. Do we have volumes created under each controller ?The preferred data path for controller A owned volume would be...
View ArticleMSA2052 + 2 additional shelves Pool setup
Hi, we use the storage to host a lot of VMs.Currently we have the following setup:MSA2052 configured with only Pool A1x Raid 10 disk group #1 with 16 SAS drives1x Raid 10 disk group #2 with 4 SAS...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2050 Jumbo Frame 'issue' - Best Practice guide wrong?
IT-Dreamer , Jumbo frame can contain a maximum of 9000 bytes for larger data transfers.We have tested this in our labs , with the frame size set to 8900. If you have issues when the value is set at...
View ArticleRe: MSA2052 + 2 additional shelves Pool setup
Hello,It is always recommended to follow the best practices for provisioning storage on the MSA. Please refer pages: 12 to 26 in the following...
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MSA Space
Hi, I have an MSA whose capacity is almost full, but i cant understand what the unallocated means, considering my uncommitted space is 0. KIndly clarify. I got this explanation from a forum, but still...
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