Hello,
I have a two PS4210 array and one question about group IP. Now I describe my configuration.
- group IP : 192.168.171.170
ARRAY 1:
- first CM : 192.168.171.171
- second CM : 1921.68.171.172
ARRAY 2:
-first CM: 192.168.171.173
- second CM : 1921.68.171.174
vmware iscsi port:
ESX 1: 192.168.171.181
ESX 2: 192.168.171.182
And the question is: In vmware, in Dynamic Discovery i shoud add group IP or i must add IP each of CM ??
We are going to provision a storage from Dell compellent SC 4020 for 48TB to a new environment, we end up in a confusion to decide with the size of LUN. Please suggest.
Option1 : 24 * 2 TB =48 TB
Option 2: 8 * 6 TB =48TB
Model : SC 4020
Host details : Microsoft Hyper –v 2012 ( it can support up to 64 TB LUNs)
Thanks
Saran
Sorry, very new and innocent vis-a-vis EqualLogic stuff, guess we all have to start somewhere.
I've managed to accidentally join a member to the wrong group. Doh!
I've added an old spare SAN to give me some headroom and want to remove this member from the pool and Storage group before adding to the correct one. Unfortunately I'm getting an error message regarding not enough space.
iSAN3 is the member I need to remove and I appear to have enough space in BCUWESXSAN2, but obviously I don't.
Advice greatly appreciated.
Hello,
I would like to change the Threshold of the capacity alerts for an EQUALLOGIC group but cannot seem to find any info. Can anyone help?
Cheers
Darren
Hello,
does anyone know how i can change the storage pool alert threshold value? It's currently set to 15% and i wish to lower it to 10%. I searched google and Dell docs etc but don't seem able to find the answer :(
Cheers
We are going to provision a storage from Dell compellent SC 4020 for 48TB to a new environment, we end up in a confusion to decide with the size of LUN. Please suggest.
Option1 : 24 * 2 TB =48 TB
Option 2: 8 * 6 TB =48TB
Model : SC 4020
Host details : Microsoft Hyper –v 2012 ( it can support up to 64 TB LUNs)
Thanks
Saran
Friends,
I need some guidance, I have a few volumes that need to replicate them from one storage PS6100 to another PS4100 but do not know which adopt strategy, have a virtual environment with vSphere 5.0 with iSCSI with PS6100 and parallel environment with vSphere 6.0 with iSCSI the PS4100, can someone give me a hand? I intend that replication is only between storages ...
Hello,
I was wondering when taking a snapshot using Dell VSM for vmware is there an option to exclude a hard drive which will be snapshotted.
The hard drive in question would be a page file hard drive which we would not need to recover in the event of failure.
I know about the scsi unmap command for vmfs to reclaim space on an EQ LUN. Is there an equivalent for Windows data volumes connected via iscsi?
I have 2 PS6100 in 1 storage pool. One of them is having some issues, and desperately needs to have the firmware updated(one is on 6.02, the other 7.1.5).
So i want to remove the older one, and move all volumes to the other member of the storage pool. then do some maintenance(firmware), and bring it back online and back into the storage pool.
I see some reference to "delete member", but not sure if thats the best way to go.
i installed vsm 4.0 on my vcenter, but after install, i do not see any vsm icon on the vcenter home.
only the VSM VM is showing in VM and templates.
i m using vsphere 5.5.
downloaded the dell virtual storage manager for vmware v4.0 (OVA) to install.
I have 2 PS6100 in 1 storage pool. One of them is having some issues, and desperately needs to have the firmware updated(one is on 6.02, the other 7.1.5).
So i want to remove the older one, and move all volumes to the other member of the storage pool. then do some maintenance(firmware), and bring it back online and back into the storage pool.
I see some reference to "delete member", but not sure if thats the best way to go.
Why have a sdcard slot, if , you can't transfer anything to it?
If I have 3 PS6210 arrays in a group connected to an esxi 6 cluster via iscsi, do the vmnics learn all EQ eth ports during the initial discovery? I know the group IP is used for initial discovery, so I'm looking for the relationship between the host and EQ nics after that.
We're considering a live controlled failover from our 1g switches to 10g switches, but we can't lag the 10g to the 1g. All network connections are redundant (teamed nics, etc). I can give more details about the plan, but it depends on the answer about the eth relationships.
Thanks.
Hi
I have 2 questions.
1) We just did the reset to our PS6110 Dell Equalogic using a serial console to the active controller. Do I need to reset the other(standby) controller as well?
2) Is it possible to manually switch the controller mode to and active or standby mode?
Thanks
Paras.
Just to let everyone know that I was able to update our 2950 III PowerEdge server to the latest VMWare ESXi 6 and I was able to connect it to our MD3000i SAN without any issues.
Yes, its not on their HCL but it works
cheers
Attempting to install Dell VSM-4.6.0-20160707.122300-139 virtual appliance to vCenter v6u2 (3634794). The OVA installs without error and the VSM appears in the vCenter Web Client, but attempting to access presents a "SOAPFaultException". I am also able to register it as a VASA storage provider without error. The error appears in the ASMVE.log, Console.log, and Server.log files when exported from the VSM VM.
Log example:
2016-09-15 12:10:39,156 ERROR [org.jboss.ejb3.invocation] (http-0.0.0.0-0.0.0.0-443-1) JBAS014134: EJB Invocation failed on component VSMApplianceImpl for method public abstract com.equallogic.hitve.shared.rest.v4_0.data.VSMSummary com.equallogic.hitve.shared.rest.v4_0.api.VSMApplianceApi.getSummary(): com.equallogic.hitve.shared.exceptions.VSMException: javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: A general system error occurred:
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.HostHandler.getHbaIpAddresses(HostHandler.java:2674) [eqlvmsnap-api-2.0.jar:"4.6.0.1242"]
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.HostHandler.populateHBAsInfo(HostHandler.java:653) [eqlvmsnap-api-2.0.jar:"4.6.0.1242"]
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.HostHandler.access$400(HostHandler.java:142) [eqlvmsnap-api-2.0.jar:"4.6.0.1242"]
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.HostHandler$HostListener.generateManagedObjectFromProps(HostHandler.java:264) [eqlvmsnap-api-2.0.jar:"4.6.0.1242"]
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.HostHandler$HostListener.retrieveObject(HostHandler.java:356) [eqlvmsnap-api-2.0.jar:"4.6.0.1242"]
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.HostHandler.retrieveHost(HostHandler.java:757) [eqlvmsnap-api-2.0.jar:"4.6.0.1242"]
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.DatastoreHandler.getHostsForDatastore(DatastoreHandler.java:5948) [eqlvmsnap-api-2.0.jar:"4.6.0.1242"]
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.HostHandler.findIqn(HostHandler.java:506) [eqlvmsnap-api-2.0.jar:"4.6.0.1242"]
at com.equallogic.hitve.server.rmi.DatastoreHandler$DatastoreListener.generateManagedObjectFromProps(DatastoreHandler.java:482)
This question is about optimizing a system. Through virtualization there are several layers of abstraction between the OS and the hardware.
We run a Compellent SC8000 with 3 Tiers of storage: Write Intensive SSD, Read Intensive SSD and two speeds of spinning HDDs. I have a (Well, several actually) Linux guest virtualized on top of VMware and I am curious about a few things such as the I/O scheduler and enabling TRIM and if I identify the drive in the Linux guest as an SSD drive? This particular guest is set to be tier 1 with progression to all tiers. As I understand it, this means that all writes happen on the write intensive SSDs however reads may end up coming from any of the drives... Of course the guest doesn't know any of this.
I wanted to get some opinions from some of the folks on this forum. Do I use an I/O scheduler that is optimized for SSD drives? Do I enable TRIM or run FSTRIM on my storage volumes? I believe I can manually identify a drive as an SSD in LInux, do I do this?
This particular host sees mainly reads, probably 80/20 reads. It is mostly random reads of a fairly small request size. Average request size is under 100Kb as reported in iostat.
While many things got easier with Virtualization, these very fine grain tuning items get a little more complicated and less straight forward.
I appreciate all the input!
-Eduard Tieseler
Hi,
We have eight ps6110 arrays. First four is a mix of SSD(7 drives each 400GB) and 10K SAS(17 drives each 600GB) and another 4 is all 7.2K SAS (each drive is 3TB).
I have few questions
1) Which is the recommended raid in such a case?
2) Do we need to isolate arrays into 2 or more groups since we have different types of disks?
3) If we make one big group with one pool, will the performance degrade?
Thanks
Paras,