The vSAN VMkernel Network should not be used for any kind of external storage (NFS iSCSI, etc) or vMotion traffic. It may cause uneven performance, VM hung, and Host Non-responsive issues. The vSAN data traffic traverses through the dedicated physical network adapters allocated to the VMkern...
VMware vSphere Hypervisoris a free, powerful, and reliable hardware hypervisor for server and workstation virtualization from market leader VMware. In this article, we’ll show you how to download, install, and configure VMware vSphere Hypervisor,create a virtual machine, and install a guest operati...
The requirement is to have the blade servers boot off of an iSCSI LUN using NICs with iSCSI capabilities, rather than using dedicated hardware iSCSI initiators. In ESXi 4.1, VMware introduced support for booting the host from an iSCSI LUN via the Software iSCSI adapter. Note that support was...
VMware vSphere ESXi Issue/Introduction This article provides steps to unmount a LUN from an ESXi host, which includes unmounting the file system and detaching the datastore/storage device. These steps must be performed for each ESXi host. Note: The documented method using the vSphere Client is li...
Tip: You can access the VMDK disk via SSH connections, iSCSI or Fiber Channel interface connections, or booting Windows to ESX / ESXi from an external drive and then launch the VMFS Recovery utility. Step Two: The Recovery Wizard would appear automatically; simply select the disk with the VMD...
iSCSI Synology VMware Configuration step-by-step. How to configure iSCSI LUN, vmkernel adapter, and add a new iscsi synology datastore
In ESXi 4.1, VMware introduced support for booting the host from an iSCSI LUN via the Software iSCSI adapter. Note that support was introduced for ESXi only, and not classic ESX. Check that the NIC is supported for iSCSI Boot Much of the configuration for booting via Software iSCSI is done...
How to configure Solaris 10 to drive HP MSL 6000 I have done this a long time ago so there might be something missing as this comes from sketchy notes that I still have. The point of this exercise is to get Solaris 10 to use MSL 6000 fibre channel library for backups using HP Data...
This section describes how to configure the timeout parameter of an Emulex HBA by modifying the value of parameter lpfc_devloss_tmo. Procedure Check the Emulex HBA valid drive and execute the esxcfg-scsidevs -a command. In the following figure, the valid drive is lpfc820. ~...
It controls CPU allocation, memory, and storage in each VM. It can run either directly on the hardware (bare-metal hypervisor) or on top of an operating system (hosted hypervisor). Example: Large enterprises use VMware ESXi to run multiple virtual servers on a single physical server. 6. ...