storage
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Windows Server 2016
Add iSCSI Shared Storage in Windows Server 2016
If you are configuring a Windows Server 2016 Failover cluster or you are building a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster, you will need shared storage so that either the file or virtual machine resources don’t live on local storage which…
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Storage
Create ScaleIO Volume ESXi datastore
Recently, we took a look at deploying ScaleIO in a VMware vSphere 6 environment. With the 2.0.1.3 release, vSphere 6.5 is supported. In the previous post, we only looked at the process of deploying the ScaleIO environment including the SDC…
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vSphere 6.5
Change Paravirtual to NVMe virtual storage controller in vSphere 6.5
With each new release of vSphere we have had storage performance improvements. The virtual storage controllers that are presented to a virtual machine can impact the performance of those VMs greatly. New to vSphere 6.5, we have the availability of…
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VMware
Configure FreeNAS 9.10 NFS VMware ESXi 6 datastore
Many choose to use NFS as opposed to iSCSI in their VMware vSphere environments. ย NFS has a lot of benefits and use cases particularly when we look at the efficiency of NFS. ย With NFS there is no encapsulation that needs…
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Hyper-V
Add Local Storage in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
One of the tasks you may need to accomplish when working with a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host is adding local storage to the host. ย Often, VMs will be housed on a volume that is separate from the operating system…
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VMware
VMware ESXi 6.5 Can’t Add Existing iSCSI LUN
In playing around with adding an existing iSCSI LUN to a new VMware ESXi 6.5 host in a lab environment, I ran into a peculiar issue adding the storage to the server. In thoroughly checking everything back over, I didn’t…
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vSphere 6
Can you Install VMware ESXi on 4kn Drives
The answer to the question posed in the post title is – yes you can INSTALL ESXi on 4kn drives. However as I tested recently, the problem you will run into is being able to add a datastore. Let’s take…
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Virtualization
Install EqualLogic Multipath Extension Module MEM in VMware ESXi
VMware vSphere provides the ability to leverage Pluggable Storage Architecture or PSA that enables using multipathing for HA as well as increased performance. ย This allows for third party plugins for multipathing with enhanced functionality for specific vendor hardware and storage…
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vSphere 6
ESXi 6 Equallogic reclaim free space
If you are thin provisioning VMs in your environment with an Equallogic SAN attached to your cluster, you may find that you start receiving warning from SAN HQ or your group manager alerting which states [ID: 4.2] Caution: % In-use…
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Hyper-V
Setup a Hyper-V Cluster Lab in VMware Workstation
Setting up a Hyper-V cluster lab in VMware Workstation is not too difficult and can easily be accomplished in a couple of hours worth of work to get things configured and ready to go. ย Basically the same requirements hold true…