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I currently use OpenIndiana with ZFS, it gives you so much more flexibility over a hardware RAID controller and has lots of advanced features. Head over to Hard Forum and lookup 'gee's thread - he is the master of ZFS.
 
dLockers said:
I currently use OpenIndiana with ZFS, it gives you so much more flexibility over a hardware RAID controller and has lots of advanced features. Head over to Hard Forum and lookup 'gee's thread - he is the master of ZFS.
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It is an option but how do you pass a OI VM ZFS filesystem to another VM and get around the 1GbE network limitation ?. Using the VMXNET3 adapter gives 10GbE but has an issue with LACP (VM Host to Switch) so I cannot use and internal LACP (VM to VM) is not available in free vSphere version.

RB
 
Quick question, I am still struggling to add my 500GB WD SATA HDD (That has data on there I do not want formatted/deleted) to my ESXi 5.0 host as a datastore?

I have tried going through the process of RAW Device Mapping but its telling me its going to re-write the structure (lose data)

Can anyone point me in the right direction whereby I can get this 500GB added no fuss and not loose data on my host?

You would be a saviour if you could get this working :)
 
I'm confused - do you want to add it as a raw disk you can use in a VM, or do you want to use it as a VMFS datastore?
 
Yeah I am going to , just trying to tidy up and delete what I dont need at the same time, on another note, with regards to transfer speed between disks, if I go out and buy a USB stick for the ESXi installation, then use 250gb drive for VM's, then use 500GB for datastore would this cure these poor disk transfer speeds I am seeing?
 
Ok, here is a new one someone may have sorted out before.

Those following my fun times with the P812 will know it lost the config and I seem to have amanged to get it back and it looks like the data is still on my main data drive (5x2TB in raid 5).

I have got a machine running with the card and can see all the drives in vSphere.

The 8TB datastore is cut in to 2TB VMDKs to present to the SBS 2011 VM which then spans them together.

In vSphere: Host configuration -> Storage -> Devices I can see the mounted volume. Selecting it shows a partition listed as VMFS.

When I got to "add storage" I can select the partition but the only option I then have is to format it rather than import it.

I can stand to loose the data if I can't get it back but would rather recover if possible.

Any suggestions ?.

Thanks
RB
 
I do not get the option to mount, only to format :(.

I did activate the ssh console and have a loot with gparted which reported the main GPT MBR was corrupted but the backup looked good. I then did a fix and it reported everything is now fine. On importing to vSphere it still reports my only option is to format :(. Using gparted on both this array and a second array I created from scratch, the partitions look the same (exc the sizes) so not sure what is wrong but I seem to be spending too much time so will probably just reformat.

RB
 
Hi all,

I have 2 LAN ports on my Gigabyte 3 Sniper which are not detected by ESXI. I'm looking for a GB dual or quad Intel NIC, anyone can recommend one? is this OK (item 290803613563 on a popylar auction site)?
 
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Hi, my NICs are not listed when i try to add them to the VM. they are not detected by EXRI itself but only listed in he passthrough settings.
 
Did you reboot the host after you configured them in the DirectPath I/O Configuration section? If you haven't rebooted yet then they won't be available to add as PCI devices in VMs.
 
The NIC you are talking about are not supported by ESXi. They will not be part of the ESXi virtual networking infrastructure.

When you configured IO Passthrough you hand control of the NIC chipsets to the individual VMs you attach them to (add them as a PCi device in the VMs configuration settings). Now the VM connects directly to the NIC chipset bypassing the ESXi virtual networking infrastructure. The nic chipset is creating a link between the VM and the switch directly so you cannot manage it in ESXi.

If you need to manage the nic in ESXi networking then you need a nic supported by ESXi.

RB
 
Thanks for the explanation. i cannot add the NICs as PCi devices in the VM settings even though i've added them in the DirectPath I/O Configuration section.
 
GodAtum said:
Thanks for the explanation. i cannot add the NICs as PCi devices in the VM settings even though i've added them in the DirectPath I/O Configuration section.
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If you go to your hosts configuration tab and then advanced, do the network controller chipsets have green circles on them like the picture below or orange arrows ?

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RB
 
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