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casperello
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Service console datastore

Hi everybody,

I've installed 2 hosts Dell Poweredge 2950 with. Each server as two 140GB SAS disk in RAID 1 configuration.

During the installation process, I've chose the following partition for the service console virtual disk:

Now in the vCenter server, on the datastore view, i see two allert (one for each server) that tell me: Datastore usage on disk

My configuration is wrong or I can disable the allert on local datastore (for each 2 server)?

Thanks to all

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depping
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Your config is wrong, you can change the alarm but if you do have the option I would recommend to change the config. you created a 70GB "/" partition which is a bit too much I guess. 8GB should be more than enough and leaves you room locally to add more VMDK's.

Anyway you will want to keep at least 20% free diskspace on your VMFS volume no matter what!



Duncan

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casperello
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I Duncan,

I don't need to add more vmdk on local storage. This configuration can cause a problem? If this, how can i change the size of partition (the cluster is just fully configurated) without reinstall all?

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depping
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To be honest, you can't.,,, it's not that big of a deal, but having that alarm constantly is not the way it should be.



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kjb007
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There was a change in standard alarms I posed here. You can use the method there to avoid the standard datastore full alarm.

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casperello
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Thank you everybody!

This is a response from vmware support:

Yes, your present configuration will cause no problems and you can continue using this setup without any known issues.

If all your VMs are not stored locally the I see no problem here.

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kjb007
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I believe Duncan's point was not that there was an issue with your configuration, per se, but rather that your configuration will be in a constant alarm state. The problem with having alarms you see all the time, is that you typically become immune to them, and in the case of a real issue, a real problem may go unnoticed longer than necessarry.

-KjB

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