Albert Widjaja
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VMware VMFS datastore LUN PSP and settings differences across different ESXi hosts ?
Hi All,
When I run a Powershell script that is recommended by my Hardware vendor http://www.codyhosterman.com/2016/05/updated-flasharray-vmware-best-practices-powercli-scripts/ I get the eblow strange result in my ESXi hosts:
DRS Cluster: Production - II (PRODESXi14)
and this is from the other ESXi hosts (PRODESXi08) in the same DRS cluster as above:
My question is that:
1. Do I need to standardize the PSP policy for the same VMFS data store accessed by all different ESXi hosts ? or is it there for a reason ?
2. What is the best way of doing it without impacting the production VM server running on the host and the VMFS data store ?
Any help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
When I run a Powershell script that is recommended by my Hardware vendor http://www.codyhosterman.com/2016/05/updated-flasharray-vmware-best-practices-powercli-scripts/ I get the eblow strange result in my ESXi hosts:
DRS Cluster: Production - II (PRODESXi14)
NAA PSP PathCount IOPSValue ATSMode
--- --- --------- --------- -------
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011025 MostRecentlyUsed* 4 N/A N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011026 MostRecentlyUsed* 4 N/A N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011027 MostRecentlyUsed* 4 N/A N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011028 MostRecentlyUsed* 4 N/A N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011029 MostRecentlyUsed* 4 N/A N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec080001102a MostRecentlyUsed* 4 N/A N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec080001102b MostRecentlyUsed* 4 N/A N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec080001102c MostRecentlyUsed* 4 N/A N/A
and this is from the other ESXi hosts (PRODESXi08) in the same DRS cluster as above:
NAA PSP PathCount IOPSValue ATSMode
--- --- --------- --------- -------
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011025 RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011026 RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011027 RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011028 RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec0800011029 RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec080001001f RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec080001102a RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec080001102b RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
naa.624a937095607650b5eaec080001102c RoundRobin 4 1000* N/A
My question is that:
1. Do I need to standardize the PSP policy for the same VMFS data store accessed by all different ESXi hosts ? or is it there for a reason ?
2. What is the best way of doing it without impacting the production VM server running on the host and the VMFS data store ?
Any help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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OK so just Vmotion of the VM from the ESXi host is enough ?
No need svmotion ?
No need svmotion ?
To move VMs from the datastore, you would need to use Storage vMotion, or turn off the VM.
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Thanks !
ASKER
Is there any outage or problem when I set the PSP in one VMFS on one ESXi host ?