Hi experts

we have vmware servers vsphere 6.0 and VSAN 6.0
 this VSAN cluster has 12 hosts all of them has two 10 GB Ethernet speed
one interface dedicated to VSAN traffic
the second one for other trafics                 and we configured policy for fail over in case one of these two interfaces got issue  

we bought Nexenta store 5.3 and we deployed this Nexenta to work as file server on this VSAN cluster

it works well no issue  but after i configure NDMP backup i noticed the backup so slow  20 MB per send  

and i dont know where the bottle neck

Nexenta appliance has  42 GB memory  it hods now around 10 TB data    12 core CPU

before we use Nexenta we used EMC celerra and it worked so much faster because EMC celerra send NDMP backup directly to our data domain and send the meata data to our backup server.

with Nexenta it is look like Nexenta sent data to backup server then backup server send it to data domain

but even so i thinks till so slow

our backup server EMC networker 8.2

if you need more information pls let me know

kindly advice
Sword

Hello experts - I have a Vcenter 6 server running on Server 2012 and would like to get it updated. I'd appreciate if someone could point me to a resource with clear directions on how this process works.

I was adding a Host in one of the Cluster in Vcenter at the same tie I got above alert (host service console swap rates changed from green to gray ) and several Host got Disconnected in different Cluster in same Vcenter for 5 sec came up automatically

Hi All,

We need to run some CPU intense SQL queries on a Windows 2003 server.

It had 4 cores, which i increased to 8.  They have been detected by Device manager, however they arent visible in Task Manager.


Any ideas?

D

I'm looking to upgrade a small environment and wondering what the best steps would be.  

The Environment:    

• vSphere 5.5.0 (build 3024345)    
• vCenter 5.5.0 (build 2183111)    
• VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-2456374 (4x ProLiant DL380p Gen8)    

The vCenter is on a Windows 2008 Virtual Machine, and its SQL is installed locally. I want to keep all its settings so I don't break the environment, but move to the VSA instead so I have one less Windows VM I need to patch.  
Should I do vCenter upgrade first? Is there a migration tool? I don't want to break anything. I'm not sure what "next best version" I should make the  jump to.

We have a vmware cluster with standard switches. I am planing to migrate from vSS to vDS. I would appreciate if you could direct me.
We have standard switches for management, iscsi, vmware, vmotion and DMZ, all these are in separate vSS. The esxi hosts do not have any spare nic. I will be able to disconnect 1 or 2 uplink from existing vSS and connect them to vDS.
Can i migrate one switch at a time. for an example migrate iscsi switch to dVS-iscsi  and leave the rest at vSS for now?

Hello

In cluster, can we disable some vms  on drs   Not tomigrate host to other through  vmotion

Example
If 15 vm  are there in cluster, i want 5 vm not to use drs.  Ha and drs are enabled in cluster.

Hello,

I am trying to deploy OVF template using web client error message

Status :Connection to the remote resource was lost. Check your network connection.

Target :  esxhost25.XXXXXXX.XXX
Server :  Vcenter20.xxx.xx

Does it mean  vcenter20  server has issue accessing esxhost25  using  port 9443  ?

Hello,

When we do ovf deployment,  it will start to ask question, etc.. and will do fill it up as we needed, once it's done it will start to copy the  VMDK file to ESX host, how does it work? Does it do SSH copy from source?

I have a VMWARE SBS2011 instance.  I have new hardware that I want to put it on.  When the instance was created it was done at the max size and we have an issue in that it will not save off correctly and migrate.  We have spent hours on it trying to get it to migrate.   It has something to do with the version of VMWare.  The SBS has some issues with DNS, etc.  And again, have spent hours trying to fix these issues.  We were hit with a ransomeware and I feel that that corrupted something possibly.  

I would like to Create a new VMWARE SBS on the new hardware.  If I do that, then I am looking at breaking the domain for the clients.  Is there are any way to migrate those profiles without having to break off the clients from the current domain and reconnect them to the new domain.  We have all kinds of software and email on those clients.  
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

I noticed my Veeam backups stopped working after we had a power cut/ups failure. When I powered back up the VM Server and then the windows guests all seemed well.

I was able to connect via my vsphere client on my laptop to connect to the VM Host and fire up the windows guest servers. When I try logon to the same vm host from my veeam server using the same vshpere client/root username.password I get An unknown error occurred, unable to connect to remote server.

What brought me to this point was when I was checking my veeam backups after the power cut, they hadnt backed up. The error message I get from veeam software on the veeam backup server was Your connection was actively refused. Its as if my VM Host will not take connections which come from my veeam backup server IP address ?

Any ideas
SycamoreIT

Hi

Info on server :
DL 385 G8
Server is running VMware ESXi 6.0
Controller card P420i

We rebuilt 2x600GB SAS drives in a raid 1 to 2x1200GB without any issue.
When trying to expand the disk space on the logical volume it prevents us of doing this or there is no option as it complains there is a 600 GB Hot-spare drive configured to the same array (Array A).
I do not have any option in ACU on removing of Hot-Spare drive, i have the option to erase the drive.
Will an erase of the drive tell it that it is no longer a hot spare drive ?

How can i remove the Hot-Spare drive ? I would like to repurpose it to another Array B as a hot-spare.

Update, i tried to do this from ESX console using hpacucli using command ./hpacucli ctrl slot=0 array A remove spares=2I:2:8
but got Assignable spares not available (see attached screenshot).


Show command on Array A


Regards
Roger

I was wondering if someone here knows how to configure US 3.0 on w Windows 2012 R2 vmware esxi 6 virtual, I'm running it on a Supermicro 5028D-TN4T.