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Vmware vcenter alarms - vmdisklatencyalarm
I keep having a recurring issue that I thought I might get some help from here.
I have A vcenter 6.0 cluster with 3 hosts and approximately 180 VMs. We are in a VDI environment. Horizon View is version 6.1. We use a Dell m1000e chassis with m620 blades on the newest firmware accross the board. Storage is a Nimble CS420-X8 on version 2.2.8. I have Veeam backups to a seperate san and vcloud air as DR (but that is shut off right now, except for a couple of replicaitons).
Every few hours (not the same time of the day nor the same ammount of times a day) we get a major cpu utilization spike on our Nimble as well as our Hosts. This causes the above error: alarm.vmdisklatencyalarm accross multiple guests, sometimes as few as 1 or 2 but usually it's about 60-80.
I have tried turning replication off, backups off, checked against symantec endpoint protectoin, updated firmware, updated software, added the nimble connection manager - everything i can think of and I can't crack it.
Has anyone seen anything like this or have any insight?
I can add details as needed.
I have A vcenter 6.0 cluster with 3 hosts and approximately 180 VMs. We are in a VDI environment. Horizon View is version 6.1. We use a Dell m1000e chassis with m620 blades on the newest firmware accross the board. Storage is a Nimble CS420-X8 on version 2.2.8. I have Veeam backups to a seperate san and vcloud air as DR (but that is shut off right now, except for a couple of replicaitons).
Every few hours (not the same time of the day nor the same ammount of times a day) we get a major cpu utilization spike on our Nimble as well as our Hosts. This causes the above error: alarm.vmdisklatencyalarm accross multiple guests, sometimes as few as 1 or 2 but usually it's about 60-80.
I have tried turning replication off, backups off, checked against symantec endpoint protectoin, updated firmware, updated software, added the nimble connection manager - everything i can think of and I can't crack it.
Has anyone seen anything like this or have any insight?
I can add details as needed.
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Is performance affected on the VMs ?
Often high loads, and high latency is to be expected.....and is just informative, if service is delivered correctly.
which is why we asked, did Nimble Pre-Sales size accordingly.
and is this a new implementation.
Often high loads, and high latency is to be expected.....and is just informative, if service is delivered correctly.
which is why we asked, did Nimble Pre-Sales size accordingly.
and is this a new implementation.
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I will notice a minute or so of lag before the errors on the VMs when it happens during the day, no clue at night.
I checked with Nimble and they confirmed that it is sized accordingly.
I've only been aware of this as an issue for the last couple months, and we upgraded in June
I checked with Nimble and they confirmed that it is sized accordingly.
I've only been aware of this as an issue for the last couple months, and we upgraded in June
do you have 180 concurrent VMs in use at this time ?
high CPU on he storage, is a killer and is the issue, which suggests under sized.
I would escalate and contact your TAM at Nimble!
Give them a @tweet on @twitter, that usually get's them pretty responsive, especially if you include competitors in the mix as well!!!!
high CPU on he storage, is a killer and is the issue, which suggests under sized.
I would escalate and contact your TAM at Nimble!
Give them a @tweet on @twitter, that usually get's them pretty responsive, especially if you include competitors in the mix as well!!!!
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:
Accepted answer: 0 points for tommymoto215's comment #a41492327
for the following reason:
it's the right solution
Accepted answer: 0 points for tommymoto215's comment #a41492327
for the following reason:
it's the right solution
First response:- I quote
evidence.
"You've not got virus scanning running a scan, or all clients receiving an email from management at the same time, similar activities all occuring across all VDI machines. "
http:#a40946946
Symantec Endpoint is a Virus scanning engine.
I rest my case.
evidence.
"You've not got virus scanning running a scan, or all clients receiving an email from management at the same time, similar activities all occuring across all VDI machines. "
http:#a40946946
Symantec Endpoint is a Virus scanning engine.
I rest my case.
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