one of my netapp luns is running oput of space. So I expanded the volume ad well as the lun in netapp after a rescan of hba on the host, I went into the datastore and select increase but do not see the extra space there anyt idea?
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rw-ntap2> lun show -v /vol/dr_esx_lun27_vol/dr_esx_lun27 /vol/dr_esx_lun27_vol/dr_esx_lun27 2t (2199023255552) (r/w, online, mapped) Serial#: 800Ee$D0kMFf Share: none Space Reservation: disabled Multiprotocol Type: vmware Maps: rw_esxi1_igroup=43 rw_esxi2_igroup=43 rw_esxi3_igroup=43 rw_esxi4_igroup=43 rw_esxi5_igroup=36 rw_esxi6_igroup=36 rw_esxi7_igroup=36 Occupied Size: 1.5t (1683591368704) Creation Time: Wed Mar 23 17:00:22 PDT 2016 Cluster Shared Volume Information: 0x0 Read-Only: disabled increasing it on the vmware side does not show the expanded disk
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I am not able to login to my filer via system manager. I keep getting this ==TIME== 2015-10-19 11:24:21,797 ==MESSAGE== 500 Connection refused ==DETAILS== No details are available. ==CORRECTIVE ACTION== No suggested corrective action is available. ==LOCATION== Location is not specified. ==BROWSER INFO== App Name: Microsoft Internet Explorer App Version: 5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC EA 2; InfoPath.3) App Codename: Mozilla User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC EA 2; InfoPath.3) Platform: Win32 Cookie Enabled: true
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I am getting same error. I uploaded the folder called and extracted the utilities on my datastore keep getting this error /vmfs/volumes/4eeb732a-6a68c2bc-67db-782bcb44e4cf/netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_2.1/opt/netapp/santools # ./mbralign Panic: Cannot determine full path of './mbralign'/vmfs/volumes/4eeb732a-6a68c2bc-67db-782bcb44e4cf/netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_2.1/opt/netapp/santools # /vmfs/volumes/4eeb732a-6a68c2bc-67db-782bcb44e4cf/netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_2.1/opt/netapp/santools # /vmfs/volumes/4eeb732a-6a68c2bc-67db-782bcb44e4cf/netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_2.1/opt/netapp/santools # /vmfs/volumes/4eeb732a-6a68c2bc-67db-782bcb44e4cf/netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_2.1/opt/netapp/santools # ./mbralign --help Panic: Cannot determine full path of './mbralign'/vmfs/volumes/4eeb732a-6a68c2bc-67db-782bcb44e4cf/netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_2.1/opt/netapp/santools # /vmfs/volumes/4eeb732a-6a68c2bc-67db-782bcb44e4cf/netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_2.1/opt/netapp/santools #
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IS this true that vvol is not supported on 7 mode anymore? We are running on 7 mode only and will not be upgrading to cluster mode. what options available?
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ok thanks. but still if its RDM, is there a big different in using say vmware vs windows 2008 vs windows protocol if I do not plan to use snapdrive inside the GOS. why not use vmware instead? thank you
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Still a bit confused. If an RDM is to be mapped to Windows VM (2008R2). I am not using snapdrive. should i use vmware or windows protocol?
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ok got it. but now I am finding out that not all the luns are using same initiator ID. could this be a problem down the road? Is it ok to change the Lun Id on those intiators while the lune is online?
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Is it ok to reassign lun IDs with the lun online or would that cause an issue in vmware? when I do lun show -m I see some luns dont have the same LUN ID used and I think best practice is to use same lun ID across all initiators groups for each lun?
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I am finding that a lot of my luns are using different LUN IDs assigned. but I dont see them having a problem on the vmware side. Is the best practice to use the same LUN ID on all the initiators?
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how can I get the lun ID of each lun that is mapped to each initiator group I created with the powershell toolkit? It will be similar to the lun show -m command but in powershell
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someone created 2 luns as Windows luns and got mapped as RDM to a VM. now I cannot vmotion this vm to another host. givs this error. also going to another vmhost and add storage shows these 2 luns as available to add. any idea what to do?
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what is the command for powershell to - create volume 12gb - set a volume as thin provisioned - securitystyle unix - enable storage efficiency - autogrow volume - automatically delete older snapshots
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I am not sure why It keeps saying value cannot be null get-nclunmap /vol/myvol/mylun get-nclunmap : Value cannot be null. Parameter name: Controller parameter neither specified nor set in $global:CurrentNcController At line:1 char:1
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I have each servers intiators on their own igroup. So for every new server I bring up, there is a new igroup and I need to add these new igroups to existing luns
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