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I hope its not late. What is the difference between LUN masking & zoning? How DVS works? Difference between NFS vs FC vs SSD? Introduction to vSAN? vMotion vs SVMOtion vs XVMOtion? How t... See more...
I hope its not late. What is the difference between LUN masking & zoning? How DVS works? Difference between NFS vs FC vs SSD? Introduction to vSAN? vMotion vs SVMOtion vs XVMOtion? How to you figure out IOPS distribution across VMs in a host? Etc.. In this way there can be various question on different areas (Network, storage, compute)
HI Friend, Its doable with no any issues.    Please follow below steps.   1. Build a new vCenter (Your first step is correct)     2. Create a cluster (as this is new vCenter there will ... See more...
HI Friend, Its doable with no any issues.    Please follow below steps.   1. Build a new vCenter (Your first step is correct)     2. Create a cluster (as this is new vCenter there will not be any host already available. Hence cluster creation wizard will not get host to be added into new cluster). So initially empty cluster would be created.   3. Once the cluster is created, straightway right click on cluster and add your  all hosts one by one. No need to unregister and VM. VMs will be automatically added which were there on datastore available with all hosts. Remember, 1.  we do not mount any datastore on vCenter, we mount datastore on host. 2. If you mount new datastore (which was not there earlier), you can mount once new hosts are added to new cluster. (Your SAN admin would help you out) 3. If you want to move your VMs from earlier datastore to newly added/mounted datastore, please SVMotion these VMs (by right clicking on VM >>migrate>>to datastore>>select datastore which is new)..Plz follow the same process for all the VMs. 4. You no need to add empty hosts to the new cluster, just straightway add all the hosts without registering VMs. Later you can migrate to other datastore as per requirement. NO need to upload or download any VM. 5. Please make sure your ESXi hosts are going to be compatible with new vCenter. Old version of ESXi always compatible with new version of vCenter. Just check if you have all valid licenses. Please let me know if you need any clarification
Hi Friend, I deal with SDRS in day to day job. I suggest you to enable SDRS on the datastore cluster as your file server may have several disks. (In future you would be adding more disk as ... See more...
Hi Friend, I deal with SDRS in day to day job. I suggest you to enable SDRS on the datastore cluster as your file server may have several disks. (In future you would be adding more disk as well) I also suggest you enable SDRS both for space & IO balancing. SDRS will place all the disks automatically on appropriate datastores & balance from space as well IO perspective. Also when you enable, IO metric on SDRS cluster, it enables SIOC on  each datastore in a datastore cluster & it will help you to throttle the host IO queue depth in case of IO contention, which is going to improve IO performance. File server would be IO as well as space intensive. Hence SDRS is going help you lot. let me know if you have any other query.
This works with Veem replication solution with VMware hosts. Refer:Replication requirements | view topic It even seems to work with Hyper V- replica. Hyper-V 2012 R2 replica from INTEL to ... See more...
This works with Veem replication solution with VMware hosts. Refer:Replication requirements | view topic It even seems to work with Hyper V- replica. Hyper-V 2012 R2 replica from INTEL to AMD? - Spiceworks As per me, it works for even vSphere Replication as well. However, I will come back here with confirmation. -------------------------------------------------------------- if it is useful, plz award points as correct or helpful
You need to have valid vSAN licenses. Plz refer below questions/ans for more details. How do I add a Virtual SAN / VSAN license? VSAN licenses are applied on a cluster level. Open th... See more...
You need to have valid vSAN licenses. Plz refer below questions/ans for more details. How do I add a Virtual SAN / VSAN license? VSAN licenses are applied on a cluster level. Open the Webclient click on your VSAN enabled cluster, click the “Manage” tab followed by “Settings”. Under “Configuration” click “Virtual SAN Licensing” and then click “Assign License Key”. How will Virtual SAN be priced / licensed? VSAN is licensed per socket, the price is $ 2495 per socket or $ 50,- per VDI user. Note that the license includes the Distributed Switch and VM Storage Policies, even when using a vSphere license lower than Enterprise Plus! Ref blog by Duncan Epping:http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2013/09/16/frequently-asked-questions-virtual-san-vsan/ Here is nice blog :http://everythingshouldbevirtual.com/getting-started-vsan-vsphere-5-5 Below is nice vSAN license calculator VMware VSAN License Calculator | Virten.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- if it is useful, plz award points as correct or helpful
It is LUN queue depth throttling aka device throttling. 
This is more close resource to get answer. http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmw-vsphr-5-1-stor-drs-uslet-101-web.pdf
Hi Escapem2,    Yes it should be possible. There will not be any issue if you use two vendors for a datacenter or 1 VC from replication perspective. You will have make sure all the configurati... See more...
Hi Escapem2,    Yes it should be possible. There will not be any issue if you use two vendors for a datacenter or 1 VC from replication perspective. You will have make sure all the configuration requirements are satisfied. In VMware replication, you will have to install vSphre replication appliance, same is manged by using web client. On the other hand Veem replication has their on console where you would add your ESXi or VC. Both these replication technologies are at VM level, it should not have any issue until you choose different set of VMs for setting replication job. (There will not be any conflict) From management perspective VMware replication helps as it is managed by same web client which manages entire VMware infrastructure. But there will be some difference from feature set perspective. I suggest you to first drill down why customer would like to go for VMware replication and take proper decision. But you can use both together. Plz refer: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/09/17/back-to-basics-install-configure-and-use-vsphere-replication/ http://www.vmwarearena.com/2013/07/adding-esxesxi-host-or-vcenter-server.html KB1522: P.S.: Award points if it is useful/correct.
Yes, absolutely you can do these operations without any outage. If you are doing this by using UI (VI client or Web client)   1. First vMotion all the VMs from other 4 old host to a old host ... See more...
Yes, absolutely you can do these operations without any outage. If you are doing this by using UI (VI client or Web client)   1. First vMotion all the VMs from other 4 old host to a old host where compellent storage array access available.         -Make sure old host with compellent access has enough CPU/Memory so that all ON VMs can be placed.         - Also make sure all old host have shared storage array except compellent (that is available on one old host), I think it is there already.   2. Now storage vMotion all the VMs to old host compeleent storage array.        -This can be done using script or manually   3. Remove old host (with compellent ) from older vCenter server.   4. Create one cluster on new 5.5 vCenter and add all host (1 old + 2 new ) to cluster.   5. Enable DRS in fully automated mode with aggressive threshold. and make sure vMotion network is configured properly. 6. Put old host into maintenance mode. DRS will automatically vacate the old host and balance the load on other new hosts as well. 7. Wait for all the vMotion operation to complete, old host wud be now in Maintenace mode. 8. Remove old host from cluster and exit from MM and remove from new vCenter.   Note: -You can configure VMware HA/FT on the cluster to avoid any possible failure (Make sure you satisfy HA/FT requirement) -If possible explore XVMotion, which helps to relocate VM even there is no shared datastore. -If you want to use script to do vMotion/SVMOtion, get back to me. -Let me know if you have any doubt Plz award points if this is useful.