Re: MSA 2040 - extending Volume used as datastore in ESXi 6.7
MSA2040 volume expansion is block level activity and this is online process. No need to stop Host IO. The same volume already presented to ESX Host but here question is VMFS filesystem extend for the...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2050 Change Pool Settings - Overcommit Flag cannot be disabled
Hello,All of your Pools and disk-groups are seen as healthy and not in a degraded state. So the drive failure is not currently playing a part in your issue. That being said you should get a replacement...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - extending Volume used as datastore in ESXi 6.7
HI Subhajit,Yeah you are correct the link that I posted does "seem" to have no relationship to what I did. It was only part of the solution this is what I had to do to solve the problem. This is...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - Understanding Volume Tiering
Ah! I feel a bit daft now! That makes much better sense.thanks for assistance.
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Nice to know that you are happy and satisfied with the answer.Request you to mark the forum as resolved if there is no more outstanding query from your end on this issue.This will help for everyone who...
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# show disksLocation Serial Number Vendor Rev Description Usage Jobs Speed (kr/min) Size Sec Fmt Disk Group Pool Tier...
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Will try that as soon as we get the disk replaced.
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Yes as per details received, it looks like 1.2 failed which was part of disk-group Group1 and 1.15 was configured as Global spare. The moment 1.2 failed, 1.15 got used to reconstruct data of 1.2 so...
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Re: MSA 2040 - VMWARE 6.7 - ReadCache
TigerRool10-1 , I understand your concern. However , Read cahce is an extension of controller cache , addition or deletion of read cache should not affect data access. Also , VMware 6.7 is not...
View ArticleHP MSA 2040 Seperating VMDK storage from NSA (iSCSI) storage
Hi,I present storage from my 2040 to my esxi hosts - they then mount it as a datastore. I then build VMs on that datastore. The local disks on that datastore are vmdk local storage. (For example the C:...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - VMWARE 6.7 - ReadCache
Hi There and thanks for replyingThe firmware mentioned,GL225R003, was release in December 2017. (We are using that version)ESXi 6.7 was not released until April 2018.....so it would have been...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2050 Change Pool Settings - Overcommit Flag cannot be disabled
Thank you for sharing the Home Screen details.According to that, you can see that total Virtual Disk Group size 8401 GB, out of that Allocated 4725 GB and unallocated2462 GB. Which means reserved space...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - VMWARE 6.7 - ReadCache
Status Update - I added a new disk group to Pool A.Pool A already holds the two esxi DataStores - I rebooted one of my ESXI hosts - Bang! the DataStores will no longer mount.Looking in vmkernel.log I...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - VMWARE 6.7 - ReadCache
This is nothing to do with MSA I think. I just searched in Google and found many links where I see after reboot of ESX6.7 Datastore missing or got corrupted. Looks like some bug in...
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Hi, apologies but is very hard to follow these calculations criteria.I have 1 Disk Group in RAID 5 assigned to POOL A made of 8*600GB disks, totals up to ~4.2TB Netto.From This POOL A we publish a...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - VMWARE 6.7 - ReadCache
Ta,I'll raise a support call and see where it goes,.
View ArticleRe: MSA 2050 Change Pool Settings - Overcommit Flag cannot be disabled
Yes there is difference between linear array and Virtual array.In case of linear array all volumes Thick volume only but in Virtual array all volumes by default Thin Volume only.In todays world most...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - extending Volume used as datastore in ESXi 6.7
Hi ThereThis problem (extending a volume containing esxi 6.7 datastores) might be an incompatibility between the esxi 6.7 and the firmware on the MSA 2040, GL225R003. (I do have a similiar issue when I...
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Does this mean we have to add 8*600GB disks to each pool in order to switch them to thick? Or less?
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