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HP P440AR version 7.0 with Samsung 870 1TB drives - RAID6 esxi 8.02
I have a ProLiant ML350 Gen9 with P440Ar Raid controler, on which i added 6 Samsung 870PRO 1TB drives and put them into RAID 6 configuration with additional SSD drive with esxi 8.02
Everything went ...
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ESXI RAID : add an extend to existing VMFS datastore
I noticed in ESXI (6.5) there is option to create something like software RAID, but it is called "Add an extent to existing VMFS datastore", does anybody have experience of what it does and ...
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How does VMWare vSAN's RAID5/6 work
BLUF: How does VMWare's implementation of RAID5/6 work?
Below is VMWare's chart for RAID5/6 in vSAN:
It seems VMWare is altering RAID's terminology. When I hear RAID6 I think two parity of something; ...
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storcli cannot add diks to RAID10 - 255 Start Migrate not possible
list of Disks:
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EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp Type
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disks for a small esx-host: ssd raid5 or hdd raid10? [duplicate]
I am about to replace an ESXi host that runs some 20 VMs (mostly idling).
Today around only 800Gb is used on an external iscsi-box, raid6 (total 7Tb).
The new server will just simply have internal ...
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On a Proliant DL380 G7, how can I identify which drive in the RAID is making a clicking sound?
I have 8 drives in the Proliant G7, and when under disk load there is a clicking sound from one of them.
There are NO SMART ERROR MESSAGES.
It is running ESXi, which shows warnings about i/o latency ...
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RAID 0 for Development
Hello fellow administrators, I am seeking high level guidance on the following situation:
First the context of the environment: internal, all virtual (vmware), development use only, performance ...
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Dell R610 ESXi not loading after VD deleted
I've got an R610 which had 3x RAID 1 arrays in it previously, with one degraded and inaccessible (has been for months). After rebooting, I was warned that VD00 was missing. Given I didn't care about ...
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Smart Array P420i Permanently replace Predictive Failure Disk with Spare
I have a Smart Array P420i configured as below:
Smart Array P420i in Slot 0 (Embedded)
Array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)
logicaldrive 1 (838.1 GB, RAID 5, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:2:1 (...
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Can VMware ESXi be installed on a server with 2x480GB DC SSD, Adaptec 8405 SGL, RAID 1?
Intel Xeon E3-1275v5
4x RAM 16384 MB DDR4 ECC
2x SSD SATA 480 GB Datacenter
RAID Controller 4-Port SATA PCI-E - Adaptec 8405 SGL
The VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64 installer ...
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Installing Dell R710 from Scratch
I am building a Dell R710 server from scratch. I am deploying a bootable USB on the internal usb port. The bootable usb contains esxi 6.x and I can't seem to configure the RAID controller from scratch....
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Software linux raid using physical passthrough disks
I'm using Vmware ESXI and I followed this guide to pass through 2 physical disks for a raid 1 array. If I set up an mdadm software raid using these two physical passthrough disks will something go ...
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DL180 G6 server suddenly loses access to SSD datastore on ESXi 6.0 [closed]
I've currently got a HP ProLiant DL180 G6 server. It originally came with a Smart Array P410i raid card, which I used to create a bunch of RAID0 disks (one SSD for my ESXi datastore and a couple of ...
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Recover data from RAID 5 with VMFS data store
I own an HP Proliant Gen-6 ML350 server which is not turning on again after a power outage. According to my research it is most likely due to a failue of the power supply backplane or the power supply,...
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See Pike raid status in ESXi 6.7
I am using ESXi 6.7 and have an Asus Pike 3108 card in the server. When I browse the Host | Monitor | Hardware | Storage I can see:
Avago (LSI) MegaRAID SAS Invader Controller #0
But the status is ...
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ESXI and RAID 5 manipulation error, help needed
I have a ESXI server with a RAID5 datastore on an P410 controller. Lastly, I had a disk failed and when I tried to replace it, like an idiot I removed the wrong disk ! So my raid was now in status "...
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ESXi 6.5 - RAID - Lenovo System x3650 - CIM Provider
Background:
We have a new Lenovo System x3650 Type 8871 server. Specs below:
Lenovo System x x3650 M5 8871EMG 2U Rack Server
1 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 Dodeca-core (12 Core) 2.20 GHz - 2 Processor ...
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HP Smart Array P400 Write Cache not Enabling on VMware ESXi 5.5 Running on ProLiant DL380 G6
I am trying to get write caching enabled on a Smart Array P400 even though there is no battery backup. We have a large building wide UPS backed up by a generator so the likelihood of loosing power is ...
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Dell r510 esxi raid 10 disk failure: lost config
I had a server go offline yesterday complaining of disk failure. I re-seated the disks in the set and all of the light went green. I rebooted the machine only to find that now it won't boot into esxi. ...
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Drive failure on VMware host in production
I have a Dell PE R710 with a PERC 6/i running ESXi 5.1. It has two datastores, one of which are two SSDs in a RAID1. This morning I was called that something wasn't working. Initially, I logged ...
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DL180 G6 - ESXI 6.0 - P410 - Lost access to volume Issue
We have a DL180 G6 Server with a P410 RAID Card. The server has the following three RAID arrays.
4x2TB - RAID 10
4x2TB - RAID 10
2x2TB - RAID 1
2x2TB HD's are configured as hot spares ...
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Which RAID configuration is better for hypervised Virtual Machines with three 300GB SAS drives [duplicate]
Probably a noob question, but I'd like some guidance on which RAID configuration is best in this server scenario.
I am aware of and understand the different RAID configurations, but am after guidance ...
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Where is the right place to install the ESX vSphere?
I have one server with 6 hotplug 300G SAS HDD.
Where is the right place to install the ESX vSphere?
6 HDD RAID10 for datastore and ESX vSphere together
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2 HDD RAID1 for ESX ...
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Best practice for 24 Disk Array
we have just migrated for our old fibre SAN storage to an IBM v3700 storwize with 24 SAS 600GB disks.
This storage is connected directly to two IBM ESXi 5.5 servers each with two 6Gbps multipath SAS ...
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Raid Information Through ESXi
I have created a few virtual disks using Raid controller from a Dell server. And then I installed ESXi on the server. But when I view the virtualdisk on the esxi under storage, I see all of them, but ...
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Monitoring PERC 6/i in vMware ESXi 5.5
I currently have a Dell Poweredge 2950 running ESXi 5.5.
My datastore is four drives in RAID 5 configured in the PERC 6/i config utility on bootup.
My question is, what do I do if/when one of these ...
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ESXi sees RAID1 as two hard drives
The server is Proliant ML330 G6. I've activated the embeded SATA RAID in BIOS. Created 1 logical drive in "Option Rom Configuration for Arrays" in RAID 0+1 that consists of two 1TB drives. So in other ...
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Reusing a drive from an array
I read the question here Reusing Raid 5 Drive? but I'm not sure it applies 100% to my situation.
What is the standard practice when removing a drive from an array to use as a spare for another array? ...
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Adding additional disks to HP P2000 SAS Storage
We have a 12 bay HP P2000 SAS Enclosure with 6 drives on RAID 5 installed. The drives are configured as 2 separate DataStores for a VMWare vSphere ESXi setup.
Now we want to add:
6 additional ...
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Very slow disk performance on HP P410 with RAID1+0
I have HP Microserver N54L, until recently i have used integrated software raid without problems.
I have 2x WD Black and 2x WD Red (non-pro) disks for my raid array. I also have SSD directly on the ...
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How to view progress in ESXi of RAID recovery
We have a RAID configuration. After a failure when a new hard drive is being written to, is there a way to use ESXi to view the progress so we know how much longer until completion?
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Unable to create datastore extent on VMware ESXi 5.5 - HP Smart Array P800
I have a HP P800 array controller connected to a HP MSA60 with 12x 1TB SATA drives installed. I provisioned a single array with 1 spare in ACU. I have followed this KB and created 4x 1.9TB logical ...
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How to check HP Smart array status on ESXi 5
I've been reading How to run the HP Online ACU CLI for Linux in ESXi 4.x & trying to figure out a way to see the RAID status of the server without having to restart it.
This is because, I've ...
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HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i ESXi performance issue
One of our small offices was in need of a small server to perform certain tasks.
Because the noise and size an of a regular server I went with the HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8 G1610T. I expected it to ...
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ESXi - What could be the cause of high write latency on a local datastore?
I have a ESXi 5.5 server and I'm experiencing high write latency on a local datastore.
This datastore is on a virtual disk provided by a RAID card (two SATA disks on RAID 1).
When I copy large files,...
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Boot disk with VMFS read/write driver
I want to rule out the ESXi kernel being the cause for my terrible 15MB/s write speed on the local VMFS datastore. I am using a Dell PERC H710 RAID controller, and would like to boot from a boot disk ...
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Poor Disk Performance on VMs; Host using PERC H310 RAID 5
I have a Dell R620 running 5 500GB 7.2K RPM SATA 3Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drives in a PERC H310 controller (which I am beginning to regret buying).
I am getting awful read/write speeds on Linux ...
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S.M.A.R.T data from disks behind LSI MegaRAID Controller in ESXi 5.1
I was looking at ways to get S.M.A.R.T info and R/W stats from drives behind LSI MegaRAID controller (9260-4i) in ESXi 5.1. ESXi has a command "esxcli storage core device smart get" to get S.M.A.R.T ...
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IBM SR-BR10i RAID Controller too slow with VMware ESXi
I'm transferring a virtual machine from one ESXi host to another using SSH on both ESXi Servers.
But it's painful slow, it's a massive 750GB .vmdk disk image, the VM is stopped (with downtime) and ...
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Intel RAID Web Console 2 and ESXi 5
I have two ESXi servers with Intel SRCSASBB8I RAID controller.
When those server have installed ESXi 4.1 I was able to manage RAID configuration of those server using Intel RAID Web Console 2 running ...
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Software RAID underneath ESXi datastore
I'm building an virtual environment for a small business. It is based around a single ESXi 5.1 host, which will host half a dozen or so VMs. I'm having some doubts regarding how to implement the ...
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Are RAID disks really universally unsupported for VMWare converter
I am preparing to virtualize our DC, which runs on SBS2008. We have eliminated the >2TB GPT disks and prepared some disk level backups with Acronis to use for the conversion. I plan to use the VMWare ...
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VMware ESXi 5.1 can be installed RAID1 Software?
I am close to get a dedicated server in some data center and in the shopping cart there is no option to RAID1 Hardware only RAID1 by Software, since they will install ESXi it's possible that ESXi can ...
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VMware ESXi 5 Slow performance, hundreds of I/O latency errors. [closed]
We have a standalone ESXi5 Server with the follow hardware specs:
- Supermicro X8DTL
- Intel Xeon(R) CPU E5506 2.13GHz
- 25G Ram
- 1TB HD (mirrored RAID, local SATA)
We have around 17 VM's running, ...
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Why is the 9650SE RAID1 not showing the full size of the disks?
This is a follow-on to How can I grow a 3Ware 9650SE RAID1 under ESXi 5.0?
I've successively replaced 1TB drives in my RAID1 with 2TB drives hoping that I can grow the datastore I've got in ESXi 5.0. ...
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How can I grow a 3Ware 9650SE RAID1 under ESXi 5.0?
Thanks to this question I've now got my ESXi 5.0.0 (Build 623860) running/booting off a physically enlarged 9650SE controlled RAID1 array. The 1TB drives had been replaced with 2TBs; I'd like to ...
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How can I migrate a RAID1 setup to larger drives on an LSI 3ware 9650SE?
I've got VMWare ESXi (the free version) machine that is booting off a 9650SE RAID-1 drive setup (two 1TB mirrored drives). I'd like to replace the 1TBs with 2TBs.
Is there a safe way to do this?
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Expand Raid 5 Array on a HP ML350 G6 with ESXi 4.0 and P410i Controller
I have to increas an Raid 5 Array 270GB (3x 146GB SAS) with an additional 146GB SAS hard disk.
On the Server runs a Vmware ESXI 4.0 with two Win 2008 Virtual Machines.
The Server (HP Proliant ML350 ...
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Bypass perc s300 on R210 II
Trying to install esxi on a Dell R210 II. This is an older machine and as such has Perc S300 controller. Apparently, this controller is only compatible with windows systems and there is no way to ...
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ESXi 5.1 local datastore no longer accessable
I'm running ESXi and just recently rebuilt a raid array, and now an existing local datastore is no longer accessable in ESXi. The details:
Original Configuration:
1x usb drive (on the backplane) ...
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